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22 Does Online Dating Make It Harder to Find the One Matchmaking website 婚介网 做媒机构婚介网 做媒机构 Matchmaking Algorithm 婚配算法婚配算法 Offline dating 传统的面对面约会传统的面对面约会 Mate Spouse 伴侣 配偶伴侣 配偶 The one who s meant to be Mr 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 predictors 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 caf 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 bu