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22 Does Online Dating Make It Harder to Find ‘the One’?
Matchmaking website 婚介网、做媒机构
Matchmaking Algorithm 婚配算法
Offline dating 传统的面对面约会
Mate / Spouse 伴侣、配偶
The one/ who’s meant to be/ Mr. &Ms. Right
意中人
the profile 个人简介、履历
Screen 筛选、审查check
Spark 情感火花
Chemistry 彼此的吸引
1. They’re happily married, just moved into a new house, and are now talking about starting a family(Have babies).
2. When I asked her if she thought online matchmaking was a better way than offline dating to find guys who were more compatible with (Have good relationships with 志趣相投) her.
3. No, because I couldn’t stand (bear, tolerate
忍受) him when I first met him.
4. She thought he was full of himself (arrogant overbearing 傲慢的) and rude during their first encounter.
5. You never know things are going to evolve (gradually develop) until they do.
6. But the benefit, she says, is that dating online gives you (give sb.: allow sb. to meet) access to a lot more people than you’d ordinarily ever get to meet.
7. These observations have been borne out (be proven)in a new study by social psychologists collaborating across the country.
8. An increasingly popular trend that may now account for (take a proportion of…所占比例达…) 1 out of every 5 new relationships formed.
9. Delving into (probe into探究) questions such as whether scientific algorithms.
10. Whether communicating online by trading photos (exchange pictures)and emails before meeting in person can promote stronger connection.
11. Figure had risen to 22% for heterosexual (opposite sex) couples and 6% for same-sex (homosexual同性的) couples by 2007-09.
12. But there are certain properties (Characteristics特性) of online dating that actually work against (be bad for) lover-seekers.
13. One downside (disadvantage) to internet dating has to do with one of its defining characteristics.
14. As people learn each other’s likes and dislikes and stumble through (walk with difficulties
跌跌撞撞) the awkward but often rewarding process of finding common ground.
15. Online, that process is telescoped (squeeze; shorten望远镜看，拉近压缩) and front-loaded (pre-perceived预先感知的，先入为主的), packaged into a neat little digital profile, usually with an equally artificial (man-made; unnatural造作的) video attached.
16. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as profiles can help quickly weed out (remove) the obviously inappropriate or incompatible partners (who hasn’t wished for suck a skip button (pass over and move on 忽略，跳过) on those disastrous real-life blind dates?)
17. Building a relationship by learning to like a person is also diluted (be diluted: be weakened 稀释，冲淡)
18. The person you see on paper doesn’t
translate (be equal to) neatly to a real, live human being, and there’s no predicting or accounting (record) chemistry you might feel with a person whose online profile was he opposite of what you thought wanted.
19. The authors of the study note that people are notoriously fickle (capricious 善变的，任性的) about what’s important to them about potential dates.
20. Other characteristics take precedence over (be more important than) the ones they thought were important.
21. It may seem intuitively (instinctively直觉地，本能地)logical that people who share the same tastes or attitude would be compatible.
22. Some online dating sites, for example, attempt to predict attraction based on qualities like whether people prefer scuba diving (器械潜
水，别于浮潜snorkeling) to shopping.
23. But social science studies have found that such a prior (theoretical推理的，先验的) predict ors aren’t very accurate at all, and that the best prognosticators (foreteller 预言家) of how people will get along come from the encounters between them.
24. Stronger predictors of possible romance include the tender (general idea 男高音) of their conversations.
25. It can actually undermine (do harm to)the process of finding a suitable mate.
26. “Shopping” mentality that can lead people to objectify (treat…as object当成物品) their potential partners.
27. Physical appearance and other intangible (abstract 抽象的，非物质的)characteristics may
certainly be part of the spark that brings two people together, but having to sift through (Examine carefully/ screen 细查)hundreds of profiles may becoming overwhelming (too much to bear 难以掌控), forcing the looker to start making relationship decisions based on increasingly superficial. (simple and of appearance 肤浅的)
28. Online dating sites have a vested interest (the acquired right 既得利益) in your failure.
29. Communicating online before meeting can help counter (offset, undo 抵消)some of this mate-shopping effect (择偶购物化效应).
30. It skews (distort歪曲) people’s expectations and ends up lowering their attraction upon meeting.
31. Considering the many pitfalls (deficiency隐患),what accounts for the enduring popularity.
32. Part of it may be the fact that singles who use online dating sites are a particularly motivated lot (group of people 人群).
33. With more people constantly moving around to find better jobs, disrupting (disturb & interrupt 扰乱中断) their social networks, the easily accessed digital community of like-minded singles becomes a tantalizing (hopeful, exciting but disappointing 挑逗) draw.
34. Still, those who go online looking for love are left navigating (travel through carefully绕过) a minefield of odds.
35. But at least there’s solace (comfort 慰藉) in matches like my friend’s.
36. If there’s one thing online dating does better than any matchmaker or network of friends who are eager to set you up (set sb. up: harm sb. 陷害；match make for sb. 介绍对象)with that
“someone who’s perfect for you”.
23. Yawns: A generation of the young, rich and frugal
At all 归纳
(1) 用于否定句，意为：根本不、一点也不。
如：
It wasn’t difficult at all.
这一点也不难。
(2) 用于疑问句，意为：到底、究竟、难道
不。如：
Are you at all worried about it?
你难道对此不担心吗?
(3)用于条件句(用来加强if的语气)，意为：
假若、既然、即使、反正。如：
If you do it at all, do it well.
既然要做，就把它做好。
He’ll come before supper if he comes at all.
他要是来，准在晚饭以前。
1. They may have disposable income (available income, after taxed, pensions etc.), but whatever they make, they live below their means (income) in a conscious effort to tread (walk on, tread democracy践踏民主) lightly on the earth.
△Income
Live below one’s means富而不奢
Live beyond one’s means 入不敷出
Live within one’s means (make ends meet)
量入为出
2. The acronym (首字母缩拼词) comes from the Sunday telegraph of London, which noted that an increasing number of rich young Britons are socially aware, concerned about the environment and given less to （be given less to do=be less
likely to do）consuming than to giving money to charity.
(be given to: have a tendency of)
3. Yawns sound dull, but they are the new movers and shakers (Opinion leaders).
4. They are men and women in their 20s, 30s,
40s who want nothing less than (nothing more than 不外乎) to change the world and save the planet.
5. Far from the techie café life (hi-Tech Geek life), Blagsvedt, 32, lives at babajob’s headquarters in Bangalore.
6. The high-tech world has spawned (give rise to 引起，产卵) its share of Yawns, but they can sprout (emerge 发芽) anywhere.
7. In fact, Yawns are a subset (a subgroup 小团体，子集) of a growing global movement of the eco-socially aware.
8. The movement makes perfect sense (meaningful and worthwhile), said David Grusky, a sociologist at Stanford University, since society tends to follow cycles—with anti-materialist (reject wealth and luxury) periods like the hippie movement generating a pro-materialist (pursue wealth and luxury) reaction—the yuppie period, and so on.
9. “Americans have been on a buying binge (indulgence, esp. on food and drink) for the last 10 years,” she said. “Our closets (closet, a small room) are full. Our attics (attic, a storey below the roof) are full. Our garages (garage, an indoor space to keep motor vehicle)are full. Enough already!”
10.Rik Wehbring, a 37-year-old dot-com millionaire—he worked for multiple startups (newly-established 创业中的)—limits himself to living on $50,000 a year.
11. That’s no chump change (an insignificant amount of money 杂碎) but well below what he could spend in San Francisco, where his rent eats up 40 percent of his allotted (assign) spending.
12. He buys most of his food from local farmers’ markets, is leaving the bulk (the greater part of) of his estate（property or money）to various environmental organizations and donates money to what he considers worthy causes.
13. Everyday, he grapples with (struggle with 搏斗；克服) “how to live a low-carbon life.”
14. “We’re pretty low on the stuff scale (in terms of material possessions),” Marshland said.
15. Marshland offsets (counterbalance 补偿) his family’s “carbon footprint”—how much energy it uses—by donating money to environmental groups online.
16. Yawns hate ostentation (showiness).
△Format: Do sth out of ostentation.
e.g.: He bought the latest IPad out of ostentation, actually he seldom uses it.
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Unit2 Gender Issues Men turn to jobs women usually do 1.HOUSTON - Over the last decade, American men of all backgrounds have begun flocking to fields such as teaching, nursing and waiting tables that have long been the province of women. 2."The way I look at it is that anything, basically, that a woman can do, a guy can do," said Miguel Alquicira, who graduated from high school when construction and manufacturing jobs were scarce and became a dental assistant. 3.The trend began well before the crash,and appears to be driven by a variety of factors, including financial concerns, quality-of-life issues and a gradual erosion of g ender stereotypes. 4.In interviews, about two dozen men played down the economic considerations, saying that the stigma associated with choosing such jobs had faded, and that the jobs were appealing not just because they offered stable employment, but because they were more satisfying. 5."I.T. is just killing viruses and clearing paper jams all day," said Scott Kearney, 43, who tried information technology and other fields before becoming a nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. 6.An analysis of United States census data by The New York Times shows that from 2000 to 2010, occupations that are more than 70 percent female accounted for almost a third of all job growth for men, double the share of the previous decade. 7.That does not mean that men are displacing women - those same jobs accounted for almost two-thirds of women's job growth. But in Texas, for example, the number of men who are registered nurses nearly doubled in that time period. 8.The shift includes low-wage jobs as well. Nationally, two-thirds more men were bank tellers, almost twice as many were receptionists and two-thirds more were waiting tables in 2010 than a decade earlier. 9.Even more striking is the type of men who are making the shift. From 1970 to 1990, according to a study by Mary Gatta, senior scholar at Wider Opportunities for Women, an organization based in Washington, D.C., and Patricia A. Roos, a sociologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, men who took so-called pink-collar jobs tended to be foreign-born, non-English speakers with low education levels. 10.Now, though, the trend has spread among men of nearly all races and ages, more than a third of whom have a college degree. In fact, the shift is most pronounced among young, white, college-educated men like Charles Reed, a sixth-grade math teacher at Patrick Henry Middle School in Houston. 11.Mr. Reed, 25, intended to go to law school after a
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英美报刊阅读教程1 Language Features 电子报纸 electronic newspaper = e-paper 电子杂志electronic magazine = e-zine 1.英语新闻报刊的种类：日报、晨报、晚报 周报、半周报 semiweekly 、双周报 biweekly 城市报metropolitan newspaper 报纸newspaper 郊区报suburban newspaper 乡村报rural newspaper 大报quality newspaper 通俗小报tobloid 2.新闻英语的限制因素：大众性、节俭性、趣味性、时新性、客观性 3.拼词缀 （1）前词部首+后词部尾 boat +hotel=botel 水上旅馆 taikong +astronaut=taikonaut 宇航员 medical +suicide = medicide 医助安乐死 digital +literati = digirati 电脑联通网 guess + estimate=guestimate 约略估计 corporation + bureaucrate=corporcrat 公司官僚主义 （2）前词全部+后词部尾 jazz + discotheque = jazzotheque 爵士音乐夜总会 screen + teenager = screenager 屏幕青少年 eye + analyzer = eyelzer 远不测醉器 work +welfare = workfare 工作福利 guess + kingdom = filmdom 电影王国 news + program = newsgram 新闻节目
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最全的英美词汇差异对比 美国英语单词大全与英式英语单词对比词汇大全，美国英语单词和英国英语单词在拼写和发音方面有许多区别，下面的词汇列表，列举出了英国英语和美国英语单词中的差别，具有差别的英语单词大全。 汉/英/美 飞机aeroplane/airplane 航空邮件air-post/air-mail 对……（人）生气angrywith/ angry at 垃圾箱ash-bin(dust-bin) /ashcan 秋autumn/fall 面包店bakery/bakehouse 纸币(bank-)note/ (bank-)bill 理发厅barber"s shop/ barber shop 浴盆bath/bathtub 浴室bathroom/bath 寝具bedclothes/covers 饼干biscuit/cracker 百叶窗blind/shade 公寓block offlats /apartment house 宿舍boardinghouse/ dormitory
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Lesson Nine. Iraq: Who won the war? Not the 90,000 Iraqi civilians or the 4,200 US and UK troops killed since 2003. The big winners are the money men who have made billions. Raymond Whitaker and Stephen Foley report 1.Five years ago today, Britain stood on the brink of war. On 16 March 2003, United Nations weapons inspec-tors were advised to leave Iraq within 48 hours, and the "shock and awe" bombing campaign began less than 100 hours later, on 20 March. The moment the neocons around President George Bush had worked so long for, aided by the moral fervour of Tony Blair, was about to arrive. 2."I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk," Kenneth Adelman, a leading neocon, had said a few weeks before, and so it proved. Within barely a month, Saddam's bronze statue in Baghdad's Firdaus Square was scrap metal. But every other prediction by the Bush administration's hawks proved wrong. 3.No weapons of mass destruction –Britain's key justification for war –have been found. The Pentagon acknowledged last week that a review of more than 600,000 captured Iraqi documents showed "no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida terrorist network". 4.In 2008, there are still more American troops in Iraq than during the invasion, with no exit yet in sight. Britain's Ministry of Defence has just admitted that it has been unable to withdraw as many British troops as it planned – there are 4,000 still based just outside Basra, instead of the projected 2,500. So far 3,987 American soldiers and 197 British troops have died in Iraq. 5.So, five years on, who can be said to have won the war? Certainly not Iraqi civilians, at least 90,000 of whom have died violently since 2003, at the most conservative estimate. Other studies have multiplied that figure by five or six. Two million Iraqis have fled the country, and at least as many again are internally displaced. Baghdad households suffered power cuts of up to eight hours a day in Saddam's time; now they can expect less than eight hours of electricity a day on average. The US troop "surge" has cut the number of murders, but there are still 26 a day in the capital. The list goes on. 6.Nor have the eager promotors of the war, such as Mr Adelman, fared well. (By October 2006 he was admitting: "We're losing in Iraq.") The most arrogant of them all, Donald Rumsfeld, the ex-secretary of defence, was reluctantly dropped by Mr Bush in his second term. His former deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, who famously said that WMD had been used as the excuse for war because it was the only topic Washington's bureaucracy could agree on, was forced to resign as president of the World Bank after arranging a pay rise for his girlfriend. The Senate refused to confirm John Bolton