生活百科看外國牛人如何給好友"拉紅線"

 

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Step 1: Sow the seed 撒播愛的雨露
If you are trying to get 2 of your friends together, develop the idea that they'd be great together without explicitly explaining you want to match-make them. Let them believe it's their idea.
Remember to focus on their positive traits such as his sensitivity and love of animals, and her style and sophistication. This may involve missing out certain details, or embellishing the truth slightly.

Step 2: Arrange a meeting 安排一次聚會
Once you've established how fantastic each of your friends would be for each other, arrange a spontaneous, informal get together where they can meet in a relaxed environment. Don't work them up into a frenzy of anticipation, and turn it into a 'big night'. Avoid lines such as 'I think you'll be really good together, so try not to be too weird'.

If one of your friends doesn't seem interested in the potential match, but you're still convinced they'd make the perfect couple, you may have to be more devious. Persuade them to come out for a quick drink and... ooh look, what a surprise! Well as you're there, it would be rude not to join them.
To make sure they don't suspect anything, make sure the introduction itself is natural, breezy, and casual.

Step 3: Make them look good營造雙方的好感
Your role is to make your friend look witty, interesting and intelligent. Let them be themselves, but just a little bit better. Laugh at that joke you've heard several times before. Remember to bring up her triumph as Miss East Anglia 2003 and how caring he is to his elderly relative. Mention her young journalism award, and the time he saved a child from a burning building. And her grade 5 piano, and his skill at thumb war. And her Baga swimming award for 50 metres, and his full clean driving licence.

Step 4: Bring them closer 拉近二者的距離
Find a place to sit down, to bring the potential Romeo and Juliet, the potential Scarlet and Rhett, the potential Batman and Robin closer together. Bring them physically nearer to each other with some gentle encouragement or by severely limiting their options... But don't go too far. If they're not talking to each other, make sure they have to. As the evening progresses, and everyone is feeling more relaxed, you could try to use a photo opportunity to encourage a bit more closeness.

Step 5: Know when to leave適時離開
If one of your friends still isn't convinced about the match, don't abandon them to an evening of misery.

Offer them an escape route. 留下彼此的后路
If things look like they are going to plan, have 'the chat' with both of them to find out exactly what their true feelings are. Don't get too excited if it seems like everything's fitting into place… there's still time for it to go horribly wrong.
But if it doesn't look like it's doing so, retreat gracefully and watch the fruits of your labours flourish.

【詞匯講解】

1.spontaneous adj. 自發(fā)的, 自然產(chǎn)生的

如：The spontaneous combustion of the oil-soaked rags caused the barn to catch fire. 
油布碎片的自燃使谷倉起火。

My husband was handsome, spontaneous and charming in his youth. 
我丈夫年輕時英俊、誠摯、富有魅力。

2.frenzy n. 狂暴, 狂怒

如：A frenzy supposed by ancient peoples to have been induced by nymphs. 
著魔時的狂熱古代人認為由仙女引起的狂熱

The people were whipped up into a frenzy by the speaker. 
人們聽了演說人的話群情激奮.

3.witty adj. 富于機智的, 詼諧的

如：A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. 
雋語詩表示一個簡單思想或觀察的短小機智的詩

It reminds us of all the wise and witty things that our political masters have uttered in the past year. 
這令我們想起了過去一年中我們的政治家們講過的所有機敏睿智之語。

4.potential adj. 可能的, 潛在的

如：He hasn't realized his full potential yet. 
他還沒有意識到他的全部潛能。

Education develops potential abilities. 
教育能開發(fā)人的潛能。

5.flourish vi. 繁榮,茂盛,活躍,手舞足蹈

如：There were two or three palm trees flourishing in the promenade garden. 
街心花園里有兩三棵枝繁葉茂的棕櫚樹。