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Until the start of the 20th century, the rules of courtship were fairly straightforward. Male suitors called on eligible women u
Until the start of the 20th century, the rules of courtship were fairly straightforward. Male suitors called on eligible women u
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Until the start of the 20th century, the rules of courtship were fairly straightforward. Male suitors called on eligible women under the watchful eyes of concerned adults. Keen chaps visited regularly and with the intent to marry. It was a dance to which everyone knew the steps. Modern pursuers are not so lucky. 【F1】
Whether you are hoping for a relationship or just casual sex, dating "often feels like the worst, most unsecure form of contemporary labour: an unpaid internship," writes Moira Weigel in "Labour of Love", an occasionally amusing and often agitating look at the work of courting.
The rules of love, Ms. Weigel argues, are shaped by economics. 【F2】
The concept of "dating" only came about at the dawn of the industrial age, when new opportunities lured young people to cities.
Working women were soon exposed to an array of potential mates, but many lived in boarding houses that were unfit for hosting callers. So men offered to escort romantic prospects to restaurants or dance halls. 【F3】
Soon as these practices spread among the working classes, saloons and amusement parks sprang up to earn their business.
By the mid-1910s even the middle classes considered "dating" a legitimate way to court.
Shifting demographics also played a role. Falling birth-rates allowed parents to dote on fewer children, who were increasingly likely to go to school. Young people began mixing in new ways. Cars granted young lovers unprecedented privacy.
The mating marketplace has spurred countless businesses. In the 1920s even respectable ladies began painting their faces, and the cosmetics industry exploded. As late as the 1960s most drinking establishments barred unaccompanied women, leading one enterprising New Yorker to open a place called T.G.I. Friday’s, and the "singles bar" was born. 【F4】
The videotape dating services used by time-poor yuppies (雅皮士) in the 1980s set the stage for the boom in high-tech mate-shopping by the turn of the 21st century.
In this lively tour of changing romantic mores, Ms. Weigel occasionally goes off-course. She tends to bury thinly argued points beneath grand statements, and she reserves most of her sympathy for women. But she is right to note that modem courtship is full of mixed messages. Women who are pushed to "lean in" at work are often told to pull back to appeal to men. Men who may answer to women at the office are encouraged to seem unbeatable after hours, and pay for the plea-sure, too. 【F5】
Ms.Weigel argues that this arrangement sustains the fiction that men are still in control of courtship—and may also explain why, in these uncertain economic times, the labour of love is so terribly confusing.
【F1】
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答案
无论是想谈恋爱还是滥交,约会“通常都是当代最糟糕,最无担保的活动:犹如无薪实习”,莫伊拉-魏盖尔在《追求爱情》一书中写到。这本书对求爱行为的描写有时诙谐,但更多的是令人焦虑。
解析
①本句是复合句。句子包含让步状语从句,带有插入语和同位语,但实际上主句是简单的主谓宾结构,即dating feels like the form,后面的冒号引出一个例子,作补充说明dating就像“无薪实习”一样(an unpaid internship),后面带有一个插入语writes…in “Labour of Love”,说明前句是出自哪里。②句首是由whether…or…引导的让步状语从句,说明不管是“想谈恋爱”(hoping for a relationship)还是“滥交”(casual sex),都存在后面主句表达的情况。③句末的an…look at the work of courting是其前面提及的书“Labour of Love”的同位语,对这本书进行补充说明,表示这本书在求爱行为方面是怎样表达的。
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