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What makes today's Perfect man perfect?
什么使当今的完美男人完美？　　
What is it that he says or does that makes him a woman's perfect man?
他怎么说或怎么做令自己成为女人心目中的完美男人？　　
Well, that depends. Every woman's different.
那取决于，每个女人都是不一样的。　　
But yet, orchids work for all of them?
但是，兰花对每个人都有效吗？　　
Well, as a gesture, they do. I mean, but that's just a....
作为一种姿态，它确实有效。我是说，但是那只是。　　
That's a beginning, that's....
开端，那是。　　
He's got to have a deeper connection than that.
他必须做更深一步的交流。　　
He's got to know what makes her tick.
他必须知道什么能令她动心。　　
Which is why, if you don't know who the woman is...
这就是为什么，如果你不了解哪个女人。
She listens to Patsy Cline when she's sad.
当她悲伤的时候她会听Patsy Cline的音乐。　　
it's rather a moot point.
这还是个有争议的论点。
Hypothetically.
假设。　　
Then what?
接着怎么样？　　
Say she does.
她是的。　　
Patsy Cline's her sad music? Patsy Cline.
是她的悲伤之曲？　　
Wait a minute.
等一下。　　
Now.
给。　　
This is very happy music.
这是非常欢快的音乐。　　
Keep it. But you know what?
拿着，但是你知道吗？　　
Even if he does cheer her up...
尽管他会为她喝彩。　　
he can't be a guy that's afraid of tears.
但他无法成为一个害怕眼泪的人。

妙语佳句
1.gesture
姿态；手势；作手势；用动作示意
例如：
I touched it, and again asked him, by gesture, to hand it over.
我已经碰到那支笔了，我再一次用动作示意让他把笔还给我。
2.make sb tick
令某某动心
例如文中：
He's got to know what makes her tick.
他必须知道什么能令她动心。　
3.Patsy Cline
佩茜·克莱恩
乡村天后Patsy Cline(佩茜·克莱恩),是美国民谣歌手，样貌有点像邻家胖大婶， 在五十年代末、六十年代初非常有名，只可惜其性命与其演艺生涯一样的短暂。
4.moot point
争论点；有争议的；尚在争论中的论点
例如：
Whether that is really the right approach with male customers is, in light of this research, a moot point.
根据这项研究，这是否真的是对待男性顾客的正确方式还是一个有争议的问题。
5.hypothetically
假设地；假想地
例如：
"HIV may still be detected in the body," Dieffenbach suggests hypothetically, "but there is no circulating viral load."
他提出假设说：“人体内可能仍然测得出艾滋病病毒，但是没有循环病毒载量。
考考你
翻译：
1.什么使当今的完美男人完美？　　　　
2.他怎么说或怎么做令自己成为女人心目中的完美男人？　　　　　　
上期答案：
1.Wait, what could be more important than the perfect man?
2.So, what are you writing a school paper on, dating or something?