那些年拒绝约会时用过的借口

One person said her excuse was that her 'goldfish drowned' - and added that the guy she fed that line to believed her, indicating that she may have dodged a bullet.
还有一个人的理由是她的“金鱼淹死了”，之后她又补充说那位男士居然信了，这表明她可能成功躲过了一劫。

Others told lies that tempted fate, creating fake personal tragedies that left them otherwise 'occupied'.
另外有些人用类似造化弄人的谎言来编造个人的悲惨故事，以此表明他们真的“没有时间”。

'Grandma was in the hospital,' one woman said she told a man who was pursuing her, before adding why the excuse almost didn't work: 'He offered to go with me.'
比如一位女士对她的追求者说：“我奶奶住院了。”但后来她说这个理由几乎没什么用，因为“他说他要和我一块去。”

Another told a suitor: 'My friend just got in an accident and she's in the hospital.'
还有一位女士跟她的追求者这样说：“我朋友出了点意外，她现在人在医院。”

Of course, sometimes just saying that you're busy doesn't do the trick, as a determined person might continue to try to find a time that works. To prevent that possibility, some people just attempted to scare potential dates off.
当然，有时候单单表示你很忙是没什么用的，因为一个有决心的人会接着跟你约其他合适的时间。为了防止这种可能性，有些人试图吓跑这些潜在的约会对象。

'There's a porno of me circling the web right now. You OK with that?' wrote one, while another woman said she told a man: 'I have a male genitalia phobia.'
有一位女士这样写道：网上有一张我的艳照，你能接受吗？”另外还有一位女士跟一位男士说：“我有男性生殖器恐惧症。”

'I've had a yeast infection for the past five years,' wrote a woman who chose a photo of a tray of doughnuts as a background for her words.
“过去五年里我一直深受宫颈感染的困扰”，一位女士这样写道，然后她选择了一张托盘上满是甜甜圈的图片来做她的文字背景。

Two girls even told men that going out with guys was against the rules, saying: 'My dad doesn't allow me to go out on dates by myself,' and 'I'm a nun and I'm not allowed to marry.'
还有两位女生对男士们表示跟他们约会是不符合规定的，其中一位说：“我父亲不允许我单独出去约会”，另一位则说：“我是修女，不能结婚。”

Then, naturally, there is the option of telling someone you play for a different team, as one woman showed when she told a man: 'I think I just found out I'm not into guys. I'm homosexual.'
当然，你也可以选择告诉别人你和他们不是一类人，比如一位女士在“耳语”上发了这样的图文，当时她跟那位男士说：“我刚刚发现我不喜欢男人，我是同性恋。”

Vocabulary
blurt out: 脱口而出
scramble:争抢
wriggle out of：设法逃避
repercussion：影响

英文来源：每日邮报

译者：曾媛GXUN

审校：马文英

编辑：杜娟