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The dating world is full of pitfalls, especially when it’s done online. There are many people out there all with different profiles promising different things. The British journalist Natasha Devin was challengedby a friend to accept every date she was asked on over a two-month period. She spoke to Dan Damon.

I think my favorite date was one where we actually just went for coffee. It was during his hour-long lunchbreak. So there was a time limit on how much time we could spend together. And we just had a very relaxed chat. And I felt like I could just be myself. And I think all the sixty days, I think that what the experiment taught me is that the mark of a good date is how comfortable you feel simply to be yourself and not have to put on a show or represent only the most palatable aspects of yourself.

And who was the most uncomfortable date?

The most uncomfortable date was a guy who insisted on analyzing the date as it happens. So about every tenminutes, he would ask me how I thought it was going. And I think it was just the mark of the fact that he was perhaps a little bit nervous.

And that’s one of your points, isn’t it? It’s one of the ten things that you should not do on a date, to say “how do you think it’s going”. Give us a couple of the others.

A couple of the guys I went out with were very uninterested. They knew what the right questions to ask. But then when I opened my mouth to respond, immediately they would start looking in a different direction orlooking over my shoulder to see who was coming in the door.

And I thought what’s the point of us being here. And another one that was very very common was not having any plan. And when someone asks you out on a date, I, at the very least, expect that they will have some kind of idea in their mind of what you will bedoing together.

But a surprising number of them, I met them, and they’d ask me what I thought we should do. And a lot of the time I was in an unfamiliar part of town and I didn’t really know what there was to do in that area. And so we spent the first fifteen minutes of the date kind of wandering around aimlessly.

And it gets off on a wrong foot, I think. It’s surprising actually and I do think it’s a generational thing because some of the guys that asked me out were a little bit younger than me. I was in my late twenties at that time. And they were in their early twenties.

And I found that if they were younger, it was just routine. They just played with their phones all the time no matter what they happened to be doing, almost like it was an extension of their hand.

词汇解析 

extreme

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

adj.极度的；极端的

n.极端；极限

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

Extreme poverty had reduced them to a state of apathy.

极端的贫困使他们万念俱灰。

用作名词 (n.)

Starvation is at one extreme of the spectrum of food intake; obesity is at the other.

饥饿是食物摄入量的一个极端,肥胖则是另一个极端。

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calendar

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.日历；历法；日程表；一览表

vt.把 ... 列入日程表

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

I don't see how we can fit this into the mayor's busy calendar.

我不明白我们要怎样把这件事挤进市长满满的日程表中。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

The assistant will calendar the next appointment in for me.

助手会把下一个会面排进我的日程表。

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accuse

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.谴责；控告；指责

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

How dare you accuse me of lying!

你怎敢谴责我说谎!

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episode

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.一段情节；片段；轶事；插曲

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

One of the funniest episodes in the book occurs in chapter 6.

书中最有趣的情节是在第6章。

The episode of this film sounds good.

这部电影的插曲很好听。

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faithful

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

adj.忠诚的；忠实的；忠贞的

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

A true friend is faithful to the end.

真正的朋友到死都是忠诚的。

This newspaper gave a faithful account of the event.

这份报纸对那件事进行了如实的报道。

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sunshine

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

n.阳光；晴天

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

Dewdrops shine brightly in the sunshine.

露珠在阳光下闪闪发光。

We had twelve hours of sunshine yesterday, as against a forecast of continuous rain.

昨日有十二小时的晴天，预报却说仍有雨。

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airplane

难度：2星扩展词汇，属常用10000词

英汉解释

n.飞机

=aeroplane(英）.

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The boom of the airplane was damaged.

飞机的尾桁受到损害。

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