Lonely New Yorker Dan Perino got so tired of traditional dating methods that he’s trying something new and unconventional in order to find love. He’s plastering¹ posters of himself all over Manhattan in a bid to find the woman of his dreams.

一名孤独的纽约人丹·佩里诺厌倦了传统的相亲方式，他正在尝试用一种新的、非常规的方式寻找真爱。为了寻找到自己的梦中情人，他在曼哈顿的街头处处张贴自己的海报。

It might sound desperate, but he insists that he’s not. The 50-year-old simply believes that it’s a better way of meeting women. The black-and-white posters consist of a large photograph of Dan, with the words ‘Looking for a Girlfriend’ below. He’s currently² pasting them all over the city – on post boxes, lamp posts, and parking meters.

听上去他好像已经不顾一切了，但他坚称自己不是。这名50岁的男子单纯觉得这样的方式可以让他遇到更好的对象。这些黑白海报上印有一大幅丹的照片，照片下写着“寻女友”的字样。现在，他正走街串巷到处张贴自己的海报，不管是在邮箱上、电灯杆上还是停车计时器上。

Dan claims that he received hundreds of calls only a few hours after the fliers went up. Some women were genuinely³ interested, while others thought the posters were a joke. As strange as it sounds, the posters idea seems to have worked – Dan already has one date set up.

丹说自己在几个小时内就收到了上百个电话。一些女子是真的对他感兴趣，其他则觉得这只是个笑话。虽然听上去很奇怪，但海报这个主意真的有效。丹已经定好了一次约会。

His needs are quite simple – “I’m looking for an average woman that likes to do the same things that I do,” he said. “I want to find a more meaningful relationship.”

他的要求很简单：“我希望找到一个和我有相同爱好的普通女子。我希望找到一段更有意义的爱情。”

People’s reactions to Dan’s initiative⁴ have been mixed. Some think he’s crazy, while others believe he might be on to something. But Dan is quite confident that he won’t be single much longer. “Within a week, I’ll have a girlfriend,” he asserted⁵.

人们对此观点不同。有人觉得他疯了，有人则认为他也许会有个好结果。不管怎样，丹很确信自己不用很久就可以告别单身了。他宣称，“一个星期之内，我就会有女友了。”