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双语美文：爱情良缘 Let me prefacersquo;my story by repeating some ludicrous advice my tnom gave me when I was a little girl: quot;someday you will see a man across the room and you will know he is the one. 在讲我的故事之前，先重温一下我小时候妈妈的一句玩笑话:有一天，你会看到那个人就在屋子的另一端，你将知道他就是你所要找的人 Well, I’d made it to my mid-30’s without getting remotely close to finding quot;the one,quot; let alone in a casual glance across the room. Instead, I spend too many years in relationships with the wrong men. Then, just bcforc the millennium, a new job and a desire to be nearer to my sister prompted a move from Chicago to Houston. With all this quot;clean startquot; symbolism, I resolved never again to date any man who was not marriage material. This meant I went on very few first dates and even fewer second ones. 唉，我直到快35r还丝毫没有看到川S个人的影子，更不用说穿过屋子的随意一瞥_相反我在不适合自己的人身上浪费了太多时间于是，就在千禧前夕，一份新下作及想要和妞姐住近点的想法促使我从芝加哥搬到了休斯敦基于此有象征意义的全新开始，我决定再也不和非结婚对象约会这意味着我和男人初次约会非常少，而能继续交往的就少之又少了. One night I joined a group of friends -all of them coupled, most of them ill一matched--at a popular Itouston restaurant. They were giving me grief about not dating. quot;You should just do it for the heck of it.quot; thev said. 一天晚上，在休斯敦一家有名的饭店，我和一帮朋友聚会他们都已结婚，虽然大多数并不相配。他们都为我鲜有约会而担心不已，他们说至少你该去试试 quot;Why should I waste my time and their money if 1 know I am not interestedquot; I responded. quot;It meet a guy who’s my type. I will go.quot; 如果我知道自己并没有什么兴趣，为什么要浪费自己的时间，还要让他们花钱我回答道。如果我遇到了自己喜欢的类型，我会去的。 They persisW d. quot;Fine, what’s your type’quot; 他们穷追不舍:好啊，哪种类型是你想要的? I had been watching a guy across the room (score for mom) who remind me of my dad: big, well dressed and telling stories with hands flailing the air, much to the delight of his dinner companions, all men in suits and presumably his business associates, 1 pointed.、lsquo;him,rsquo;1 told my friends. quot;I’d }o out mith him.quot; 我一直注视这屋子另一边的人(妈妈说对了)，他令我想起了我爸爸:体格结实，穿着讲究，说话时手舞足蹈，令同桌的人十分愉快。所有人都西装革履，大概都是他的商业伙伴我指着他说道:他，我想和他约会 Well, go introduce yourself,quot; they urged 那就去认识他啊。他们催促道。 I would n