别开生面！中国土豪组团和俄罗斯美女相亲

 　　Rich Chinese businessmen are paying thousands of pounds to go on 'wife tours' in Siberia in search of fair-skinned, blue-eyed brides due to a shortage¹ of women in their home country.

　　由于祖国女性少，中国富商付出成千上万的英镑踏上西伯利亚的“觅妻之旅”，寻求肤色白皙、眼睛碧蓝的新娘。

　　Pictures from the upmarket singles tour look more like a business meeting - but the Russian marriage agency behind the tours say it has had massive² success in matching well-to-do men with local women.

　　照片上看，优质单身男青年之旅看似更像是商业会晤，但其后的俄罗斯婚姻中介称，给富裕的男性与当地女性作婚介已取得巨大的成功。

　　别开生面！中国土豪组团和俄罗斯美女相亲

　　But not everyone can afford a costly³ single's tour and one Chinese man is shown on a video playing a doleful saxophone tune⁴ in the Russian border city of Blagoveshchensk, in the Far East of Russia, to attract attention from local women.

　　但不是每个人都负担得起价格不菲的单身之旅，视频上一个男子在俄罗斯远东边境城市布拉戈维申斯岛吹奏着忧伤的萨克斯风曲调，吸引着当地女子的注意。

　　For them, a Russian woman is like a present. Men want to get married, and are committed for serious relationships.

　　对他们而言，俄罗斯女性就像一份礼物（哈？哈？？哈？？？）。男性想结婚，也愿意对正儿八经的婚恋关系付诸承诺。

　　Meanwhile the matchmaker also praised the 'quite successful' Chinese men for their attitude towards the women and claimed the men are serious and quickly fall in love with Siberian women.

　　同时，婚姻介绍人也夸赞了中国的“成功”男士对女性的态度，还称男士们很当回事，与西伯利亚女子迅速坠入爱河。

　　Russia's uneven⁵ demographics are seen as caused in part by the huge losses of Red Army soldiers in the Second World War.

　　俄罗斯人口不均衡多多少少由二战时苏联红军的伤亡惨重所致。

1 shortage   

n.缺少，缺乏，不足

参考例句：

• The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.这个城市严重缺水。
• The heart of the problem is a shortage of funds.问题的关键是缺乏经费。

2 massive   

adj.巨大的，大规模的，大量的，大范围的

参考例句：

• A massive sea search has failed to find any survivors.经过大规模的海上搜救仍未找到幸存者。
• He drank a massive amount of alcohol.他喝了大量的烈酒。

3 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

4 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

5 uneven   

adj.不平坦的，不规则的，不均匀的

参考例句：

• The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.这人行道凹凸不平—走路时请小心。
• The country was noted for its uneven distribution of land resources.这个国家以土地资源分布不均匀出名。