21st Century Romance 爱在微博时代
[audio]http://file.24en.com/bbc/tae/assets_9025053/bbc_tae_304_21st_century_romance_110214_tae_304_21st_century_romance_audio_au_bb.mp3[/audio][p=30, 2, left][b]Reading[/b][b] 1: Can a Tweet Ever Be a Grand Romantic Gesture? [/b][b]一条微博信息能否成为一个经典的浪漫之举？[/b][/p]Picture the scene. It is dark except for the [b]dim[/b] yellow [b]candlelight[/b]; it is silent except for the [b]scratching[/b] of a pen. A young lover [b]pours out his heart[/b] in a letter to his [b]loved one[/b], who, days later, tears it open with a beating heart and in the strictest privacy.The love letter has an important place in our cultural imagination, but does it have a place on [b]social networking sites[/b] and [b]microblogs[/b]? What is the shape of 21st century [b]courtship[/b]?[img=226,170]http://www.24en.com/d/file/bbc/bbc2/2011-02-16/265139801c1df63d881ffd93ee3105bf.jpg[/img] [p=30, 2, left]How tweet: Shane Warne and Liz Hurley[/p]
The end of 2010 saw [b]the kindling of a romance[/b] between the Australian cricketing star Shane Warne and the British model Elizabeth Hurley on the social networking site Twitter.
Hurley and Warne didn't just update their [b]relationship status[/b]. The celebrities exchanged [b]flirtatious[/b] messages in public, before Hurley had announced the end of her marriage to Arun Nayar.
So can a [b]tweet[/b] ever count as [b]a grand romantic gesture[/b]? Judge for yourself, with this recent message from Hurley to Warne about her parrot Ping Pong:
"Baby Ping now says 'Hello Darling' and 'Hello Little Girl'. Sweet!"
But although the pair have flirted openly online, in real life they still enjoy their privacy. Special [b]screens[/b] around Warne's home prevented photographers from [b]snapping[/b] the couple during Hurley's visit to Australia last week.
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