英美报刊文学第21课

1、Does Online Dating Make It Harder to Find the One?,Lesson Twenty-two,Group member: 聂瑞娟 胡浩岚 赵丹丹 杨海天 王鹏程,welcome 聂瑞娟,background,Online dating (OD) or Internet dating is a personal introductory system whereby individuals can find and contact each other over the Internet to arrange a date, usually with

2、the objective of developing a personal, romantic, or sexual relationship.,Online dating services usually provide unmoderated matchmaking over the Internet, through the use of personal computers or cell phones. Users of an online dating service would usually provide personal information, to enable th

3、em to search the service providers database for other individuals. Members use criteria other members set, such as age range, gender and location.,The United States generated $957 million in revenue in 2008 from online dating services.Recently, it has become common for online dating websites to prov

4、ide webcam(网络摄像头） chats between members. As online datings population becomes larger, sites with specific demographics(人口统计学的） are becoming more popular.,Online dating differ from the traditional dating model. What it can bring to our life, we will introduce you some detail informations in this text

5、.,welcome 杨海天,Vocabulary,Algorithm lgr()m 算法，计算程序 Chemistry kemstr （两性之间强烈的）吸引 力；化学 Collaborate klbret 合作；通敌 Collaborate with sb on/ in doing sth Compatible kmptbl 情投意合的；兼容的 Criteria kratr criterion Delve delv （在手提包、容器中）翻找；钻研 Delve into 探索；探究 Dilute dalut 稀释；削弱，降低,Disastrous dzstrs 极糟糕的；灾难性的 Disrupt

6、 dsrpt 扰乱；使中断 Downside dansad 缺点；不利方面 Fickle fkl 变幻无常的；善变的 Front-load frntlud; frntlud 置前；提前 Heterosexual hetrsekl 异性恋的 Hetero- 其他；不同 Homo- 同样；相同 Inappropriate nprprt 不合适的；不适当的 Incompatible ,nkmptbl 不相配 Inflated nfletd 夸张的；过高的 Intangible ntndbl 不易捉摸的；难以确定的,Intuitive ntjutv 直觉的；直观的 Match mt 婚姻；配偶 Men

7、tality mentlt 心态；思维方式 Objectify bdktfa 使客观化；使具体化 Overwhelming ,uvwelmi 令人困惑的；不知所措的 Pitfall ptfl 陷阱；隐患；困难 A priori pra:ra 由因及果 Profile prfal 人物简介；印象 Prognosticator prnstikeit 预言者 Property prpt 特性；财产；不动产 Scuba skjb 便携式水下呼吸器,Skew skju 歪曲；曲解 Sift sft 细查；详审；挑选 Solace sls, -lis 安慰 Stand stnd 维持；忍受 Stumble

8、 stmbl 跌跌撞撞地走 Stumble across 偶然发现；偶然遇见 Tantalizing tntlaz 逗引人的；撩拨心弦的 Telescope telskp 缩短；精简；压缩 Tenor ten 大意；要领 Vested vestd 既定的；既得的 Weed wid 清除；剔除,welcome 赵丹丹,The Main Idea,(13)My friends exprience (47)The new study about online dating (810)Compare online dating with the dating in real world (1117)T

9、he limits of online dating （1820）suggestions on dating online （21）Advantage of online dating,A partner is another human being, who has his or her own needs, wishes and priorities, and interacting with them can be a very, very complex process for which going through a list of characteristics isnt use

10、ful. priority n.优先，优先权，优先考虑的事,The authors also found that the sheer number of candidates that some sites provide their love-seeking singles which can range from dozens to hundreds can actually undermine the process of finding a suitable mate. sheer number绝对数目 underminev.逐渐削弱；使逐步减少效力,And theyre also

11、probably more likely to believe that the matchmaking algorithms that power so many sites really can find them that person whos “meant to be.” matchmaking n.作媒；安排比赛；火柴制造（业） algorithms n.运算法则，演算法，计算程序 meant to be命中注定 power vt.运转，使有力量,welcome 胡浩岚,First of all, please look at the headline of this news.

12、It says “Dose Online Dating Make It Harder to Find the One? Its obvious that the one has a single quotation mark in this headline. Actually, here the one means spouse or partner, we call this kind of rhetorical device as metaphor.,Language Features of Newspaper Articles,“starting a family”,Then, we

13、find a phrase “starting a family” in the end of paragraph 1.It refers to have a baby. Baby is a part of a family, but the author used a family to replace it. Thats a synecdoche-a kind of figure of speech-which definite that when a part is substituted for the whole or the whole is substituted for a p

14、art, this sort of rhetorical device is synecdoche.（提喻）,Next, we can spot two words “online” and “offline” in paragraph 2.Generally speaking, we are more familiar with “online”, and “offline” is an antonym of it. This a word-building called antonymic analogy.（反义类比）,Online VS Offline,Quotation,In addition, the most typical feature of this news is that a lot of quotations are available. I have calculated it roughly, including direct quotation and indirect one, that there are 10 or so. Therefore, I wont list them one by one.,By the way, look at the paragraph 12. Here is