Kat在北京學漢語，她的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎麼說的詞，就會來請教她。今天是楊琳要問的是「放鴿子」。
Kat: Yanglin, what's wrong with you? why are you so mad?
YL: 我今天太倒黴了！我被人放鴿子了！
Kat: 鴿子？I'm sorry. Am I missing something? Because there are no pigeons here...
YL: Well...放鴿子的意思嘛……就是你跟別人約好，結果對方卻沒來！美語裡這個該怎麼說呢？
Kat: Oh! You had arranged to meet somebody, and then that person was a no-show!
YL: A no-show？哦，我明白了。No-show就是「沒來，爽約」。
Kat: Yes! But Yanglin, who was this no-show? Your boyfriend?
YL: 嗯……怎麼說呢。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！
Kat: Oh, I got it!! You had a blind date!
YL: A blind date? 就是相親嗎?
Kat: Exactly. So when you arranged to meet someone that you've never met before, and go out on a date, that's what we call a blind date. The only problem is these blind dates don't usually turn out very well, do they?
YL: 就是! I waited for this guy for a whole hour! 就像這個男生，直接放我鴿子，害我白等，真不像話！
Kat: In this case, you say "I got stood up"! 我被人放了鴿子。
YL: stood up？站著？我可沒站著傻等啊！
Kat: 不是不是不是。If you "stand somebody up", it means you don't turn up for your arranged event.
YL: 哦！我明白了！不去約會，放別人鴿子，叫 stand someone up。而我是被放鴿子，所以你說我--got stood up！
Kat: Exactly！太聰明啦！Alright, let's go over what we've learned today!
YL: 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！
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（來源：VOA英語教學 編輯：旭燕）
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