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 A tourist poses below the hill of the Acropolis with the ancient temple of Athena Nike in the background in Athens September 7, 2010.(Agencies) |
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The home of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle is the "most flirtatious city" of the modern world, a new study showed on Monday. Athens topped a "World Flirtation League," which ranked cities by the number of online flirtations initiated per month by the average user in each on online social networking site Badoo.com (www.badoo.com). Moscow came second, while Rome placed 8th and Madrid 31st, Paris 38th, London 57th, Berlin 79th, and New York 89th in the study of nearly 200 cities across the world in which Badoo analyzed 12 million flirtatious contacts made during a month, with 108 million users chatting and flirting in 180 countries. The Lonely Planet Encounter Guide to Athens author Victoria Kyriakopoulous said the results are hardly surprising as the Greek capital is a seductive city, with a hedonistic lifestyle. "Athenians love to party and they love to talk," she said. "Flirting and sexual banter are not just a means to an end but part of social interaction." She said the internet is just a new means to the age-old dance of attraction and love. "Old people flirt, married people flirt, now young people are simply using technology to do what Athenians have always done." The average Badoo user in Athens initiated 25.7 online flirtations per month -- over twice as many as in Rio (12.4) Warsaw (12.1) or Prague (12.6) and far more than in Paris (20.7), London (19.0), Berlin (17.7) or New York (16.1). Tunis, birthplace of the "Jasmine Revolution," is among three Arab cities (with Kuwait and Beirut) to make the world top 10, along with three former Soviet ones (Moscow, Kiev and Baku in Azerbaijan) and three Italian (Turin, Rome and Bari). Plato said "Love is a serious mental disease." The great man never shared his views on online flirting but he knew something at least about offline flirting, said Simon Hardy, British academic and author of "The Greeks, Eroticism and Ourselves." He said ancient Athenians may have honed the art of flirtation at drinking parties known as symposia, drinking parties where men flirted with dancing girls among other entertainment. "It is probably fair to say that the Athenians perfected the art of flirtation in ancient times, especially at the time of symposia described by Plato." (Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
周一發(fā)布的一項(xiàng)新調(diào)查顯示，蘇格拉底、柏拉圖和亞里士多德的故鄉(xiāng)雅典當(dāng)選為現(xiàn)代世界中的“最輕浮城市”。 雅典名列“世界輕浮城市”之首，這些“輕浮城市”是在線社交網(wǎng)站Badoo.com根據(jù)每個(gè)城市的用戶平均每月發(fā)起的在線調(diào)情次數(shù)來排名的。 Badoo.com網(wǎng)站對(duì)全世界180個(gè)國(guó)家的1.08億網(wǎng)絡(luò)用戶1個(gè)月內(nèi)的網(wǎng)上聊天記錄進(jìn)行了研究，分析了其中1200萬條調(diào)情對(duì)話，并籍此對(duì)全球200座城市進(jìn)行排名。在榜單中，莫斯科排第二，羅馬第八，馬德里排第31位，巴黎38位，倫敦第57位，柏林第79位，紐約第89位。 《孤獨(dú)星球旅行指南：雅典篇》一書的作者維多利亞?凱莉科坡露斯說，這個(gè)結(jié)果并不令人感到意外，因?yàn)樽鳛橄ＥD首都，雅典一直都是一座很誘人的城市，這兒的人們奉行快樂主義的生活方式。 她說：“雅典人喜歡聚會(huì)，也愛好交談。調(diào)情和黃色玩笑并不是達(dá)到目的的一種手段，而是社會(huì)交際的一部分?！?/p> 她說以前人們通過跳舞來展現(xiàn)魅力，表達(dá)愛意，而網(wǎng)絡(luò)只不過是一種新的“調(diào)情”媒介。 “老人會(huì)調(diào)情，已婚之人會(huì)調(diào)情，現(xiàn)在的年輕人只不過使用新科技做了雅典人常做的事情而已。” 在雅典，平均每個(gè)Badoo用戶每月發(fā)起25.7次網(wǎng)上調(diào)情——是里約（12.4次）、華沙（12.1次）和布拉格（12.6次）的兩倍多；遠(yuǎn)超過巴黎（20.7次）、倫敦（19.0次）和紐約（16.1次）的調(diào)情次數(shù)。 “茉莉花革命”的發(fā)生地突尼斯是三個(gè)進(jìn)入榜單前十的阿拉伯城市之一，另外兩個(gè)是科威特和貝魯特。前十名中還有三個(gè)前蘇聯(lián)城市：莫斯科、基輔和阿塞拜疆的巴庫，以及三個(gè)意大利城市：都靈、羅馬和巴里。 柏拉圖說，“愛情是嚴(yán)重的精神疾病?！庇?guó)學(xué)者西蒙?哈代說，這位偉大的哲學(xué)家從來沒有談過他對(duì)網(wǎng)上調(diào)情的看法，但是他至少對(duì)網(wǎng)下調(diào)情有所了解。西蒙?哈代是《希臘人、情欲和我們自己》的作者。 他說古雅典人的調(diào)情技巧可能是在一種名為“會(huì)飲”的酒會(huì)上磨練出來的。在“會(huì)飲”中，男士跟跳舞的女士調(diào)情，作為一種娛樂消遣的方式。 “我們可以這樣認(rèn)為，雅典人在古代、特別是在柏拉圖所描繪的‘會(huì)飲’時(shí)代完善了自身的調(diào)情技巧?！?/p> 相關(guān)閱讀 聯(lián)合國(guó)：挪威生活品質(zhì)稱冠全球 西班牙女性最會(huì)網(wǎng)上調(diào)情 美國(guó)倒數(shù)第二 全球城市生活質(zhì)量調(diào)查 維也納蟬聯(lián)榜首 英國(guó)獲評(píng)歐洲生活質(zhì)量最差國(guó)家 網(wǎng)上約會(huì)流行 紐約當(dāng)選最佳單身城市 （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 崔旭燕 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: hedonistic: engaged in the pursuit of pleasure; sensually self-indulgent（快樂主義的） banter: friendly remarks and jokes（善意的）玩笑，打趣 eroticism: sexual desire or excitement（情欲過盛；性欲） hone: to develop and improve something, especially a skill, over a period of time 磨練，訓(xùn)練（尤指技藝） symposia: a drinking party or convivial discussion, esp. as held in ancient Greece after a banquet (and notable as the title of a work by Plato)（會(huì)飲） perfect: to make something perfect or as good as you can（使完善；使完美；使完備） |
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