動詞fling的意思是“猛扔”，名詞fling的意思是“短暫的歡樂時光”，一般用單數形式，最大的用法是have a fling with sb和某人短暫地談戀愛或性關系，意思是暫時的感情關系或一夜情，差不多等于"have a one-night stand with"。fling前面的形容詞往往是“暫時的”：brief、short、short-lived、quick、one-night、one-time、casual、occasional、momentary、final/last。fling前面的定語經常是“浪漫”或“夏日”：romantic、summer、passionate、sexual、steamy/torrid、wild、drunken。當然定語也可以是“秘密的”：secret、forbidden、illicit和extramarital。Her husband acquires an exciting mistress, while she has a fling with a married student and the reader begins to see that she changes her ideas and behaviour more than he does.她的丈夫找了一個令人興奮的情婦，而她則和一個已婚學生有了一段戀情，讀者開始看到她比他更改變了自己的想法和行為。Rockford has romantic flings with numerous women, but none become permanent.Rockford與多個女人有浪漫關系，但沒有一個女人成為他的永久伴侶。
