他在一份杂志上刊登了征友广告。

He placed a lonely hearts ad in a magazine.

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而征友广告绝不新鲜：在因特网出现以前就有分类广告和单身专栏了。

And advertising for love is hardly new: there were classified ads and lonely-hearts columns long before the internet appeared.

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截至1710年，在英格兰注册的53家报纸中，家家都登了征婚广告：清一色来自男士，大部分20多岁，而且都在征友时设定财务状况。

By 1710 every one of the 53 newspapers registered in England carried lonely-hearts ads: all from men, mostly in their 20s, and all setting financial conditions for courtship.

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截至1710年，在英格兰注册的53家报纸中，家家都登了征婚广告：清一色来自男士，大部分20多岁，而且都在征友时设定财务状况。

By 1710 every one of the 53 newspapers registered in England carried lonely-hearts ads: all from men, mostly in their 20s, and all setting financial conditions for courtship.

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