双语：法国约会网站男人上货架女人随便挑

2012-09-14 00:00:00来源：中国日报英语点津

　　It’s often tough for young women to find a good man in the modern world, but a French dating site has found a novelway to bring potential couples together.
　　在现代世界，年轻女人想找到一个好男人通常是很难的，但是一家法国约会网站找到了一个新途径，让年轻男女可以有机会走到一起。

　　Online dating site AdopteUnMec.com (AdoptAGuy.com) has opened an online store in which men are quite literally on the shelf.
　　在线约会网站AdopteUnMec.com（网站名意思是收养一个男人）开了一家网上商店，货架上的则是真正的男人。

　　The travelling shop, which will be open in Paris for the next ten days before going to Brussels, Lausanne, Toulouse and Lyon, is showcasing single guys by putting them on display inside human-sized toy boxes.
　　这家活动商店将在巴黎开十天，然后前往比利时布鲁塞尔、瑞士洛桑和法国里昂。这家商店将单身男子放在真人大小的玩具盒里进行展示。

　　Women in the French city are flocking to the store to oglethe male models as they show off their best assets.
　　法国城市里的女人都蜂拥到这家商店，专注地看这些男模特展示他们最宝贵的资本。

　　One hunkymale has been displaying his guitar playing skills, while another is flexing his musclesas as he poses like an action doll.
　　一位看上去很不错的男子正在展示他弹奏吉他的才能，另一位男子则在大展拳脚，扮演动作人偶。

　　AdoptAGuy.com, a dating site which allows men to ‘advertise’ themselves as potential partners, has been hugely popular since it launched in 2010, with a reported 25,000 signing up in the first year alone.
　　让男人向女人推销自己的AdoptAGuy.com约会网站自从2010年成立以来就十分受欢迎，据称第一年就有2.5万人报名。

　　The site is free for women and has been described as ‘a catalogue of eligiblebachelors’.
　　该网站对女性是免费开放的，此网站被形容为“适婚单身汉目录单”。

　　Male users set up profiles revealing information about themselves and are only allowed to communicate with a woman if she chooses them.
　　男性用户在网站上建立自己的个人档案，透露自己的个人信息，只有在女人选择他之后，他才能与其交流。

　　Vocabulary:

　　novel:新颖的，新奇的

　　ogle:（贪婪地）看，盯着看，凝视，注视

　　hunky:优秀的，蛮不错的

　　flex one's muscles:大展拳脚，显示力量

　　action doll:手臂及腿部可以移动的玩偶，动作人偶

　　eligible:（尤指婚姻等）合适的，合意的

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