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Unit2 The?New?Singles? Carla?Power? Increasing?numbers?of?Northern?Europeans?are?choosing?to?live?alone?? 1.?You?know?the?type.?Eleanor?Rigby,?who?picks?up?the?rice?in?the?church?where?the?wedding?has?been.?Austin?Powers,?proud?owner?of?a?Lava?lamp,?lush?chest?hair?and?an?equal-opportunity?libido.?Bridget?Jones,?of?the?wobbly?ego?and?much-watched?answering?machine.?The?Single,?long?a?stock?figure?in?stories,?songs?and?personal?ads,?was?traditionally?someone?at?the?margins?of?society:?a?figure?of?fun,?pity?or?awe.??1. 你知道他们是这样的人：在举行过婚礼的教堂里捡大米的埃莉诺·雷格比；胸毛浓密、性欲旺盛、以拥有熔岩灯而感到自豪的奥斯丁·鲍威尔斯；个人意识模糊不清、总是期待录音电话响起的布里奇特·琼斯。这些单身人士过去一直是故事、歌曲和个人广告中的常见人物，传统上这些人处在社会的边缘：滑稽有趣、让人怜悯或令人敬畏。 2.Those?days?are?gone.?In?the?place?of?withered?spinsters?and?bachelors?are?people?like?Elizabeth?de?Kergorlay,?a?29-year-old?Parisian?banker?who?views?her?independence?and?her?own?apartment?as?the?spoils?of?professional?success.?Scooting?around?Paris?in?her?Golf?GTI,?one?hand?on?the?wheel?and?the?other?clutching?her?cell?phone,?de?Kergorlay?pauses?between?calls?to?rave?about?life?alone.?“I?m?not?antisocial,”?she?says.?“I?love?people.?But?living?alone?gives?me?the?time?and?space?for?self-reflection.?I?ve?got?the?choice?and?the?privacy?to?grow?as?a?human?being.”??2. 那些日子已经一去不复返了。现在的单身族不再像过去那些面容枯槁的老处女和鳏夫，而是像伊丽莎白·克尔戈莱这样的人。伊丽莎白·克尔戈莱是个 29 岁的巴黎银行家，她把拥有独立生活和自己的公寓看成是事业成功的结果。她开着漂亮的德国 Golf GTI 牌小汽车快速地在巴黎兜着风，一手扶着方向盘，另一手抓着手机，在打电话的间歇中热情洋溢地谈论着单身生活。她说：“我不厌恶社交，我喜欢与人交往。但是独自生活使我有时间和空间自我反省。我作为一个人有权选择并不受干扰地成长。” 3.As?the?sages?would?say,?we?are?all?ultimately?alone.?But?an?increasing?number?of?Europeans?are?choosing?to?be?so?at?an?ever?earlier?age.?This?isn?t?the?stuff?of?gloomy?philosophical?meditations,?but?a?fact?of?Europe?s?new?economic?landscape,?embraced?by?demographers,?real-estate?developers?and?ad?executives?alike.?The?shift?away?from?family?life?to?solo?lifestyles,?observes?French?sociologist?Jean-Claude?Kaufmann,?is?part?of?the?“irresistible?momentum?of?individualism”?over?the?last?century.?The?communications