Jessica 在北京學漢語，她的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎么說的詞，就會來請教她。今天是莊明要問的：放鴿子
Jessica：喲，莊明，你干嘛氣沖沖的？
ZM: 今天真倒霉! 我剛讓人放鴿子了!
Jessica: 鴿子？Pigeon? I don't get it.
ZM: 放鴿子，就是你和別人約好，結果對方卻沒來! 誒？美語里這個該怎么說？
Jessica: Oh! You mean you arranged to meet someone, but the person was a no-show!
ZM: No-show? 把 no 和 s-h-o-w “show” 放在一起，no-show，就是“沒來，爽約”。
Jessica: Yes! But Zhuang Ming, who was this no-show? Your boyfriend?
ZM: 嗯....怎么說呢。我約好去見一個從來沒見過面的男生，是別人介紹的，就算是……相親吧!
Jessica: 噢，我明白了! You went on a blind date!
ZM: blind 后面加上 date--約會，blind date， 就是相親嗎?
Jessica: Yes! if your friend set you up with someone you've never met before, that's called a blind date. Blind dates usually end up bad.
ZM: 可不是么! 就說我今天這個相親對象吧，直接放我鴿子，害我白等。
Jessica: In this case, Zhuang Ming, you say "I got stood up"! 我被人放了鴿子。
ZM: stood up 不是“站起來”的意思么？我可沒一直站著傻等啊!
Jessica: No. If you "stand someone up", you fail to show up at a date.
ZM: 哦! 不去約會，放別人鴿子，就可以說 stand someone up。而我是被放鴿子，所以你說我--got stood up!
Jessica: That's right! 我也常被放鴿子! Last month, I had a date with a really cute guy, but he stood me up! 唉，也別生氣了，還是說說你今天都學了什么吧!
ZM: 第一，“爽約，沒來”，可以說 no-show;
第二，放別人鴿子，可以說 stand someone up;
第三，“相親”可以說 blind date!