零距离美语会话[家庭]Lesson1:Moderndating

Unit 3      Family
One    Modern dating
现代约会

 1    Introduction
A     For millions of singles, e-mail has become an essential tool in the dating game. It's a good tool for casually getting to know people.  It expedites the whole dating routine.
对于成百万的单身者来说，电子邮件往来已经变成了谈朋友期的一个必不可缺的工具。是人们无意间彼此认识的一个好方法。它可以加速别人谈朋友进程。

B     It's easier to have the courage to ask her/him out over e-mail because it saves the embarrassment of rejection.  And you're also not putting the other person on the spot.  So nowadays many more people prefer this way to ask people.
以电子邮件的方式把她/他邀请出来比较容易一些，不需要有那么多勇气，因为拒绝的话，也不会有那么难堪。而且你也没有把别人杵在一边。所以现在很多人都比较喜欢通过这种方式邀请对方。

C    There are some popular ways for singles to meet in America.  Internet personals are very popular these days.  Single people – some are divorced – attend special activities held just for the purpose of meeting other single people.
在美国，让单身者互相认识有很多很受欢迎的方式。目前，网上刊登个人广告就很流行。单身者——有些是离过婚的——参加一些特殊的活动，目的就在于结识另外一些单身者。

 2   Sample Sentences
1. We talked online a couple of times then decided to meet.
我们在网上聊过几次，然后决定见面。
2.  He lived 180 miles away, but I figured we would just be online friends, and distance was irrelevant.
    他住在180英里之外，但是我在想我们只会成为网上的朋友，所以距离不是问题。
3.  From the very first e-mail exchange, we both knew there was something different - we just "clicked", if you'll pardon the pun.
从第一次交换电子邮件以来，我们都知道这里面有些不一样——我们只是连接了一下，（上网连接，感情连接），请原谅我的俏皮话。
4.  What were the odds that Peter, a PhD candidate from Germany, and I, a public health worker from Los Angeles, would have ever met without Yahoo?
如果没有雅虎，彼特，德国的一个博士攻读者，和我，洛杉矶的一个公共医疗工作者，在一起相遇的机会又有多大了！？
5.  So I responded, came to find out I had known this girl from high school and she had a crush on me then.
所以我回信了，发现我以前在中学认识她，从那后她就爱上了我。
6.  When Brian responded to my ad on the 28th of September, I had no idea what I was getting myself into by arranging to meet in person.
当九月二十八日布赖恩回我的征婚启事时，我根本不知道安排见面会给我带来什么结果。
7.  It seemed so difficult to find someone suited to me and Internet made it all so much easier. 
找到一个适合我的人似乎很难，但是互联网让这一切都变得容易多了。
8.  So there I was, browsing the personals and there he was.
所以就是在我浏览征婚启事时，而他就在那里。
9.  We began talking and e-mailing each other daily for a while.
有段时间，我们开始每天谈话以及互相发电子邮件.
10.  We kept e-mailing one another because we could never catch each other online. 
我们彼此保持电子邮件往来，因为我们从来在网上都不能碰到一起。

 3   Conversations
1.   Fast love.
Judy:  So, where are you going to spend your winter vacation?
Charles:  Oh, I’m going to meet my girlfriend in Thailand1.
Judy:  You have a girlfriend in Thailand?  Interesting.  How come I have never heard of that?
Charles:  Actually it will be my first time to meet her.
Judy:  You mean you haven’t seen her before?  Then, how could she be your girlfriend?  Maybe you don’t even know her.
Charles:  That’s true.  But we have known each other over the Internet for a few months now.  Actually we are on an intimate2 level.  We even plan to be engaged next month.
Judy:  Congratulations!  It’s good to follow your heart.  But I just didn’t expect to be so fast.
Charles:  The Internet is making interaction3 much faster.  People are getting to know each other much more quickly this way.
Judy:  Probably you’re right.
Charles:  Don’t call me crazy, though.  There are 75 million singles in America, so the market for romance-related Web sites is huge.  In the last year alone, nearly 6 million people logged on4 to find their soul mates.
Judy:  Oh, my gosh!  You must be kidding！ Then those dating agencies5 must have been closed now.

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