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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.
詞匯解析
extreme
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
adj.極度的；極端的
n.極端；極限
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
Extreme poverty had reduced them to a state of apathy.
極端的貧困使他們?nèi)f念俱灰。
用作名詞 (n.)
Starvation is at one extreme of the spectrum of food intake; obesity is at the other.
饑餓是食物攝入量的一個極端,肥胖則是另一個極端。
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calendar
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.日歷；歷法；日程表；一覽表
vt.把 ... 列入日程表
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
I don't see how we can fit this into the mayor's busy calendar.
我不明白我們要怎樣把這件事擠進(jìn)市長滿滿的日程表中。
用作及物動詞 (vt.)
The assistant will calendar the next appointment in for me.
助手會把下一個會面排進(jìn)我的日程表。
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accuse
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.譴責(zé)；控告；指責(zé)
參考例句
用作動詞 (v.)
How dare you accuse me of lying!
你怎敢譴責(zé)我說謊!
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episode
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.一段情節(jié)；片段；軼事；插曲
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
One of the funniest episodes in the book occurs in chapter 6.
書中最有趣的情節(jié)是在第6章。
The episode of this film sounds good.
這部電影的插曲很好聽。
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faithful
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.忠誠的；忠實(shí)的；忠貞的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
A true friend is faithful to the end.
真正的朋友到死都是忠誠的。
This newspaper gave a faithful account of the event.
這份報紙對那件事進(jìn)行了如實(shí)的報道。
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sunshine
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.陽光；晴天
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
Dewdrops shine brightly in the sunshine.
露珠在陽光下閃閃發(fā)光。
We had twelve hours of sunshine yesterday, as against a forecast of continuous rain.
昨日有十二小時的晴天，預(yù)報卻說仍有雨。
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airplane
難度：2星擴(kuò)展詞匯，屬常用10000詞
英漢解釋
n.飛機(jī)
=aeroplane(英）.
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The boom of the airplane was damaged.
飛機(jī)的尾桁受到損害。
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