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20160803ou 一中两外锵锵三人行
今日话题： 【太任性】荷兰一41岁男子为见中国女网友飞半个地球来华网友，蜗居机场十天。
Lincoln: Now, a failed romance in China has taken on what I would describe as epic proportions. Yoyo, take it away.
Yoyo: Okay. Now – to what length have you gone for love? That is a question. A Dutch man has answered that question recently. A report about a Dutch man who traveled around the world to come to China, to meet his so-called girlfriend, has gone viral on Chinese new media. The man’s name is Alexander Cirk, and he’s 41 years old. Mr. Cirk told Chinese media that he met Mrs. Zhang, who is 26 years old, in an app two months ago, and the romance blossomed. Mr. Cirk then flew from Holland to China’s Hunan Province, in the hope of meeting his online girlfriend. Mrs. Zhang didn’t show up in the airport, and Mr. Cirk refused to leave the airport for the next ten days, and he was eventually taken to hospital suffering from physical exhaustion.
Lincoln: Wow. Nick?
Nick: I have a lot of questions.
Lincoln: Fire them off. Let’s hear them.
Nick: He came to Hunan Province “in the hope of meeting her”. Was he just hoping to bump into her? Did he even ask her to come and meet him?
Yoyo: Okay, the answer is more interesting than the story. Mrs. Zhang told Hunan TV that one day he sent her a photo of air tickets, and she thought it was a joke. And Mrs. Zhang also added that, by the time Mr. Cirk arrived at the airport, she was away having plastic surgery in another province and had turned off her phone.
Lincoln: Unbelievable.
Nick: The plot thickens.
Lincoln: For ten days she was having plastic surgery and her phone couldn’t be turned on once? In ten days?
Nick: Never mind her, who waits in an airport for ten days when somebody doesn’t show up? You have to have somewhere to go, because you have to put it on your visa application.
Lincoln: Exactly, exactly. But what have people been saying online about this?
Yoyo: Now, the hashtag ‘foreign man went to Changsha to meet his online girlfriend’ has been trending on micro-blogging sites.
Lincoln: What a long hashtag.
Nick: I love Chinese hashtags.
Yoyo: One comment is like, “perhaps she did go to the airport, and saw what he looked like and promptly turned back around?”
Nick: That’s not very nice! Some people did take his side, somebody said, “He’s a guy who is taking a relationship seriously, and if she didn’t want him to come, she should have told him so that he didn’t waste all his time, money and effort to come all the way to China.
Lincoln: All sorts of things happening here, in this little story of a Dutch guy.
Yoyo: Talking about what is also happening, you know the story hasn’t ended yet.
Lincoln: Oh, it hasn’t? Oh, go ahead.
Yoyo: Mrs. Zhang reportedly said she would be keen to meet him after her recovery, saying she was still interested in maintaining their relationship.
Lincoln: Ridiculous. How is that possible?
Nick: Well, I mean they’re never going to be short of media attention.
Yoyo: Maybe, on the good side, the man is crazy in love.
Lincoln: No, no, no.
Nick: Maybe crazy, full stop.
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