Users are 'relationshopping': looking at other people's features, weighing them up, then choosing potential partners, as though from a catalogue; it's human relationships reduced to check-boxes.

部分问题是由于人们在约会网站上容易变得像个消费者，用户像是经历选购对象的过程，仔细查阅对方特点，挑肥拣瘦的掂量，选择可能的对象，就像看邮购目录似的，这把人和人的关系降低成为简单选择题。 这算是目前技术的通病了，不单单是在网络约会这方面。

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These members indicated that this could amount to DE facto quotas, as the number of potential partners meeting those conditions might be limited.

这些成员表示，这种做法可能构成事实上的配额，因为符合这些条件的潜在合资伙伴的数量可能是有限的。

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When they come to evaluate potential partners, they use it to assess genetic quality as well as behavioral traits such as antisocial behavior and lack of emotional warmth.

在考虑潜在伴侣时，女性会通过（男性的）音高来评估他们的基因质量和行为特征，例如确定男性是否会做出与社会格格不入的行为、是否缺乏温情。

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Tory Penny Mordaunt said the Lib Dems were motivated by "spite, pettiness and self-interest", accusing them of making "flirtatious glances" to Labour as potential coalition partners following the 2015 poll.

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Before making his trip to Washington, Netanyahu met with leaders of Jordan and Egypt, viewed as potential partners in the effort to bring peace to the region.

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In private the company is still talking to customers about changing the shape of future contracts, and appears more inclined nowadays to regard European utilities as potential partners rather than spineless adversaries.

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