3. You live in a small town or village
你住在小鎮(zhèn)或者小村子里
Let's just play the numbers game here. Imagine you live in a small town of 3000 people and you're a woman. You're looking for a man, so you're down to 1500 to choose from except that 75% of them are taken so that leaves you with 375. Out of those 375, let's say 15% of them fall within an appropriate age range of you which brings you down to about 57. Out of those 57, you're sure not going to be compatible with all of them; there may be a few you're compatible with but how are you going to find them?
我們來玩?zhèn)€數(shù)字游戲。假設(shè)你是女性,住在一個(gè)只有3000人的小鎮(zhèn)里。你在尋找一個(gè)男人,那么你的選擇范圍就降到了1500人,其中可能有75%的人已經(jīng)有所屬,那么留給你的還有375人。這375人中大概有15%的人符合你的年齡范圍,所以還剩57人。而這57人當(dāng)然不是每個(gè)都適合你;其中也許有一些和你般配的,但是你要怎樣找到他們呢?
Just because you live in the same town doesn't mean that you're going to bump into each other on the sidewalk or at the grocery store. Of course, these are completely made up statistics but are generally what you're dealing with in small towns. If you want more dating options, you'll have to move to the big city。
你們住在一個(gè)鎮(zhèn)上不代表你們會(huì)在路邊或者雜貨店里偶遇。當(dāng)然,這些只是假設(shè)的數(shù)據(jù),但通常來講你在小鎮(zhèn)上的情況就是這樣。如果你想要更多的約會(huì)機(jī)會(huì),恐怕得搬去大城市。
n. 獨(dú)立,自主,自立