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 A truck drives down a snow-covered street in Hampshire, where many bored spouses are registering online for extra-marital dating.(Agencies)
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Thousands of married men and women around Britain are turning to adultery to relieve the boredom of being snowed in, according to an extramarital dating website. Spouses forced to work from home in swathes of the country where snow has brought transport to a standstill are flocking online to search for new romances, according to the website IllicitEncounters.co.uk. The site, which provides a forum for married people looking to start affairs, says it has gained more than 2,500 new members over the past six days, the majority of whom are registering from the areas worst-hit by the extreme weather. There has been a particularly high level of applications over the past 24 hours, with a record number of new dating profiles set up as millions of people woke up to heavy snow this morning. Many of the new applicants are from Hampshire, Berkshire, and West Country, with more than 900 new members joining from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall in the last three days. The site has been forced to employ extra staff to cope with the influx. The rise in membership is thought to be caused by the boredom of being stuck at home in the snow as the UK knuckles down for its coldest winter in 30 years. Married men and women are also thought to be taking the opportunity to register from home, away from the prying eyes of colleagues in the office. Sarah Hartley of IllicitEncounters.co.uk said: "The adverse weather has obviously influenced many sign-ups. Usually, the West Country is a relatively quiet area for us – but over the last 3 days we have received over 900 new members from Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. "Perhaps these wives and husbands have just been waiting for a time when they could join, away from the eyes of their work colleagues and, most importantly, their partners." The website, which was launched in 2003, has 350,000 members in the UK, the majority of whom are professionals aged between 36 and 40. (Read by Todd Balazovic. Todd Balazovic is a reporter at China Daily.) 點(diǎn)擊查看更多雙語(yǔ)新聞
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英國(guó)一家婚外戀網(wǎng)站日前稱，由于連日大雪讓人倍感無(wú)聊，英國(guó)各地?cái)?shù)千名已婚男女竟尋求“婚外情”排解寂寞。 據(jù)IllicitEncounters.co.uk網(wǎng)站稱，大雪導(dǎo)致英國(guó)很多地區(qū)交通中斷，使得很多已婚男女不得不在家工作，而在這段時(shí)間里，他們則蜂擁至網(wǎng)上尋找新戀情。 這家為已婚男女提供尋找婚外情機(jī)會(huì)的網(wǎng)站稱，在過(guò)去六天的時(shí)間里，網(wǎng)站的新注冊(cè)會(huì)員超過(guò)2500人，其中大多數(shù)人來(lái)自受此次極端天氣影響最惡劣的重災(zāi)區(qū)。 今晨英國(guó)各地普降大雪，在過(guò)去24小時(shí)內(nèi)，該網(wǎng)站的新注冊(cè)會(huì)員激增，約會(huì)資料創(chuàng)建數(shù)量增長(zhǎng)空前。 其中很多新注冊(cè)會(huì)員來(lái)自漢普郡、伯克郡和英格蘭西南部。過(guò)去三天內(nèi)，共有900多名來(lái)自多賽特郡、德文郡和康沃爾郡的網(wǎng)民注冊(cè)成為該網(wǎng)站的會(huì)員。為此該網(wǎng)站不得不招聘新員工。 該網(wǎng)站會(huì)員人數(shù)激增一方面是因?yàn)楹芏嗳吮淮笱├г诩抑袩o(wú)事可做。今年英國(guó)遭遇了近30年來(lái)最寒冷的冬天。另一個(gè)原因是已婚男女趁待在家里的時(shí)候注冊(cè)該網(wǎng)站，以免在辦公室注冊(cè)被同事看見(jiàn)。 IllicitEncounters網(wǎng)站的莎拉?哈特利說(shuō)：“惡劣天氣顯然是注冊(cè)人數(shù)激增的原因之一。對(duì)于我們來(lái)說(shuō)，英格蘭西南部是個(gè)相對(duì)比較‘安靜’的地區(qū)，但在過(guò)去三天里，有900多名新成員來(lái)自多賽特郡、德文郡和康沃爾郡?！?/font> “也許這些已婚男女一直在等待合適的時(shí)機(jī)，以免被同事，尤其是被伴侶發(fā)現(xiàn)?！?/font> 該網(wǎng)站于2003年成立，目前在全國(guó)已有35萬(wàn)名會(huì)員，其中大多數(shù)人為年齡在36歲至40歲之間的專業(yè)人士。 相關(guān)閱讀 伍茲丑聞致贊助商損失120億 （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯蔡姍姍） |
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Vocabulary: be snowed in：被雪困住 swathe：a strip, belt, or long and relatively narrow extent of anything（長(zhǎng)而窄的地帶） prying：impertinently or unnecessarily curious or inquisitive（愛(ài)打聽的） sign-up：an act or instance of signing up（注冊(cè)） |
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