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日期:2009-09-11
[00:00.00]Unit 3      Family
[00:09.90]One    Modern dating.
[00:11.87]现代约会
[00:13.84]1  Introduction
[00:16.61]A  For millions of singles,
[00:19.10]对于成百万的单身者来说,
[00:21.58]e-mail has become an essential tool in the dating game.
[00:23.95]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。
[00:26.33]It's a good tool for casually getting to know people.
[00:28.66]是人们无意间彼此认识的一个好方法。
[00:30.98]It expedites the whole dating routine.
[00:32.97]它可以加速别人谈朋友进程。
[00:34.95]B  It's easier to have the courage to ask her/him out over e-mail
[00:38.48]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,
[00:42.00]because it saves the embarrassment of rejection.
[00:44.33]因为拒绝的话,也不会有那么难堪。
[00:46.65]And you're also not putting the other person on the spot.
[00:49.08]而且你也没有把别人杵在一边。
[00:51.51]So nowadays many more people prefer this way to ask people.
[00:54.30]所以现在很多人都比较喜欢通过这种方式邀请对方。
[00:57.08]C  There are some popular ways for singles to meet in America.
[00:59.91]在美国,让单身者互相认识有很多很受欢迎的方式。
[01:02.75]Internet personals are very popular these days.
[01:05.07]目前,网上刊登个人广告就很流行。
[01:07.40]Single people – some are divorced –
[01:09.38]单身者——有些是离过婚的——
[01:11.37]attend special activities held just for the purpose of meeting other single people.
[01:14.29]参加一些特殊的活动,目的就在于结识另外一些单身者。
[01:17.22]2  Sample Sentences
[01:20.98]1.We talked online a couple of times then decided to meet.
[01:24.36]我们在网上聊过几次,然后决定见面。
[01:27.75]2.He lived 180 miles away,
[01:30.78]他住在180英里之外,
[01:33.81]but I figured we would just be online friends, and distance was irrelevant.
[01:36.93]但是我在想我们只会成为网上的朋友,所以距离不是问题。
[01:40.05]3. From the very first e-mail exchange,
[01:42.53]从第一次交换电子邮件以来,
[01:45.01]we both knew there was something different - we just "clicked",
[01:47.60]我们都知道这里面有些不一样——我们只是连接了一下,
[01:50.18]if you'll pardon the pun.
[01:51.66]请原谅我的俏皮话。
[01:53.14]4. What were the odds that Peter, a PhD candidate from Germany,
[01:56.61]如果没有雅虎,彼特,德国的一个博士攻读者,
[02:00.08]and I, a public health worker from Los Angeles,
[02:02.61]和我,洛杉矶的一个公共医疗工作者,
[02:05.13]would have ever met without Yahoo?
[02:07.15]在一起相遇的机会又有多大了!?
[02:09.18]5.So I responded,
[02:11.16]所以我回信了,
[02:13.15]came to find out I had known this girl from high school
[02:15.47]发现我以前在中学认识她,
[02:17.80]and she had a crush on me then.
[02:19.53]从那后她就爱上了我。
[02:21.27]6. When Brian responded to my ad on the 28th of September,
[02:24.60]当九月二十八日布赖恩回我的征婚启事时,
[02:27.93]I had no idea what I was getting myself into by arranging to meet in person.
[02:31.26]我根本不知道安排见面会给我带来什么结果。
[02:34.59]7. It seemed so difficult to find someone suited to me
[02:37.27]找到一个适合我的人似乎很难,
[02:39.95]and Internet made it all so much easier.
[02:42.02]但是互联网让这一切都变得容易多了。
[02:44.10]8. So there I was, browsing the personals and there he was.
[02:47.37]所以就是在我浏览征婚启事时,而他就在那里。
[02:50.63]9. We began talking and e-mailing each other daily for a while.
[02:53.51]有段时间,我们开始每天谈话以及互相发电子邮件.
[02:56.38]10.We kept e-mailing one another because we could never catch each other online.
[02:59.71]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。
[03:03.04] 3   Conversations
[03:06.20]Judy:  So, where are you going to spend your winter vacation?
[03:08.98]——那么,你准备去哪里度寒假?
[03:11.76]Charles:  Oh, I’m going to meet my girlfriend in Thailand.
[03:13.89]——噢,我准备去泰国见我的女朋友。
[03:16.02]Judy:  You have a girlfriend in Thailand?  Interesting.
[03:18.31]——你在泰国有个女朋友?太有意思了。
[03:20.59]How come I have never heard of that?
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