The modern dating game is highly complex and courting rituals can be a minefield.

现在的约会游戏是高度复杂的，其中的繁文缛节就像个雷区。

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Its cultivation may be ancient—dating as far back as 5,000 years ago—but cotton, and its characteristically soft, downy fibers, could be just what modern medicine has been waiting for.

棉花的种植历史也许非常悠久——可以追溯到迄今5,000年前——但它和它富有特性、柔软光滑的纤维可能正是现代医学所要寻找的东西。

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Instead of making it his goal to get a girlfriend, sleep with a bunch of women or become a modern-day Casanova, he becomes interested in other people and how dating works.

他并不是想要交一个女朋友，找一堆女人鬼混或者变成一个现代的Casanova，他只是对他人和如何进行约会产生了兴趣。

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In many ways, the young man and his friend were a modern dating couple, yet still bound by caste and tradition.

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Better still, it conjures with real feelings -- fear, vulnerability, pain, a search for true love -- in the process of exploring the mad complexities of the modern dating game.

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