新新人类，新新词汇：Intellidating智慧相亲

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Intellidating 智慧相亲，知性相亲
        Definition 英文解释
        Dating that emphasizes intelligence, particularly by attending lectures, readings, or other cultural events
        Background 背景阅读
        Call it the courtship equivalent to the slow-food movement. Call it a backlash against point and click matchmaking. Whichever, intellidating — an unhurried, decidedly highbrow approach to mating — is catching on in Boston, New York, Toronto and beyond ...
        Intellidating is also a boon for the shy. In contrast to speed-dating, which demands rigidly timed discussions about pretty much whatever pops to mind, events such as lectures and viewings offer built-in conversational pegs.
        And, as London relationship coach Michael Myerscough says, it takes the "stress of performance" off of dating, since most intellidating unfolds over many hours in a less love-me-now-or-leave-me environment than the bar scene or a jittery fix-up dinner.
        周玉亮点评：
        拼缀法（ blending ）将两词各取一部分或一词加另一词的某一部分拼缀成一个新词，该新词同时具备原来两个词的基本意思。拼缀法是当代英语新词汇发展丰富的重要的构词方式之一。拼缀词一般经常出现在日常口语、报刊文章以及科技文章。用拼缀法创造的新词言简意丰，生动别致，轻松俏皮，符合现代人快节奏的生活，反映现代人的新新生活方式和状态。
        Intellidating （智慧相亲、知性相亲）将 Intelligence 和 Dating 巧妙组合，反映的是部分都市年轻人交友相亲的最新模式，通过一些知性活动如参加沙龙、聆听讲座、欣赏画展等来慢慢结识和了解异性朋友，顺带实现相亲成家的梦想。和八分钟交友（ 8-minutes dating ）六人晚餐（ dinner-for-6 ）等速配 (speed dating) 形成鲜明对比。突然想起，其实我在成都发起的爱思英语沙龙其实就有点给优秀年轻人提供intellidating机会和平台的意思，无心插柳还真的成了几对；所以， Intellidating 这个单词对于我来说特别有意思。