The cougar trope started out as a joke about desperate older women. Now it’s gone mainstream, even in Hollywood, home to the 50-something producer with a starlet on his arm.

美洲豹曾被用来比喻绝望的老女人，现在，这已经成为主流，甚至在好莱坞，五十多岁的导演手臂上都会有个图案。

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The US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the eastern cougar officially extinct Wednesday, even though the big cat is believed to have first disappeared in the 1930s.

美国鱼类和野生动物管理局在星期三宣布东部美洲狮已正式灭绝，但是人们认为这种大型猫科动物在20世纪30年代就消失了。

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There's a cougar in the corner that seems to be stalking me!

「那只角落的「美洲狮」，似乎想要扑向我呢！」

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Yet, during a recent gathering of girlfriends, she seemed to be the target of as many cougar jokes as Mariah Carey was in 2008 when she married Nick Cannon. (At 32, Cannon is a decade younger than the singer.) It probably didn't help that, at the start of their relationship, my friend's suitor couldn't legally accompany her to the bar.

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