Are you lonely? Bored? Trying to deflect¹ questions about that special someone from Mom, Dad or your friends because there's nobody romantic in your life?

你寂寞吗？无聊吗？试图从爸爸妈妈或是好友转移问题，因为生活中的浪漫爱情遍寻不着。

Maybe you need an Invisible² Boyfriend.

也许你需要的就是一个虚拟男友。

Yes, the Internet has a solution for everything, and Invisible Boyfriend (or Girlfriend) can take care of those pesky privacy-invading questions by supplying an actual person to call you, text you and leave you messages. They'll even send you handwritten notes.

是的，网络无所不能，而虚拟男友（女友）可以省去那些麻烦的侵犯个人隐私的问题，传送一个真人打电话给你，发短信给你，并给你留言。他们甚至还会亲手写下留言给你。

Why, that's sometimes better than an Actual Boyfriend!

为什么，有时候就是比现实中的男朋友还要好！

Matthew Homann, who describes himself as a "recovering lawyer" with "idea surplus³ disorder," came up with the idea several years ago after a divorce⁴ and bought the domain⁵ InvisibleGirlfriend.com for $7. He filed it away until late 2013, when he pitched it to a St. Louis hackathon. A long weekend later, he and his team won the contest.

把自己形容为“脑补过剩混乱”的“复职律师”马修·霍曼，几年前在离婚后想出了这个主意，并花7美元注册InvisibleGirlfriend.com域名。直到2013年末，他才存档完毕，参加了圣路易斯的黑客马拉松活动。一个长周末过去后，他和他的团队赢了竞赛。

For $24.99 a month (for starters, which includes 100 text messages, voicemail and handwritten notes), you get to make up a story about how you met and pick out an image, name, age and interests.

24.99美金一个月（为新用户，包括100条短信，语音留言和手写留言），你能自编自导一个你们如何邂逅的故事，并选择头像，姓名，年龄和兴趣爱好。

Who's at the other end? Though Homann says some of that information is proprietary⁶, he'll allow that the St. Louis-based company has partnered with a service that has real people responding to your messages. (Yes, they've been trained, so watch your language.)

另一端到底是谁？虽然霍曼声称一些信息归私人所有，他会允许圣路易斯的公司和有真人服务回应你信息的合作。（是的，他们训练有素，所以，注意你的言辞）