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单词 blind date
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Definition of blind date in English:

blind date

noun
  • A social engagement with a person one has not previously met, arranged with a view to the development of a romantic or sexual relationship.

    she met her husband on a blind date
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Joanne Dove, an effervescent 42-year-old mother of seven, is a ‘shadchan’, one of the matchmakers who devote hours each day to arranging matrimonial blind dates.
    • Born in North Dakota, she graduated from the University of Illinois and was a junior high school teacher before she met Ellis on a blind date.
    • He grew up in the suburb in the 1950s, the mixed-race progeny of a Pakistani father and an English mother who met on a blind date at Victoria Station in 1950.
    • After a joyous welcome at his Suffolk home he came up north to Blackburn to see Elsie, the girlfriend he had met on a blind date while training to go to war.
    • David L and his girlfriend began arranging a blind date for me next Friday and a trip to Hastings to boot.
    • Mudadiwa Chinyoka, who was born in Zimbabwe and whose visa ran out seven years ago, met 17-year-old Gemma Atkinson on a blind date in Doncaster arranged through a mutual friend.
    • Near the end of 1952, Greenspan married artist Joan Mitchell, whom he had met ten months previously on a blind date.
    • Warm-hearted neighbours gave her food and clothes, helped find work for her and arranged blind dates.
    • On one occasion, the congressman even arranged a blind date, but nothing became of it.
    • We arranged a blind date for you, but we wanted it to be a complete surprise.
    • They met on a blind date through a common friend at the Monks Inn Restaurant in Manhattan.
    • In June 2002, Jiang met Pu Gang (not his real name), 36, on a blind date arranged by a local matchmaking agency.
    • Besides, don't you remember the last time I arranged a blind date for you with one of my old flames?
    • The pair met on a blind date rather than through work, however.
    • Retired farmer Joe met Margaret on a blind date at a Royal British Legion dance in Haworth.
    • You are ‘profiled’ every time you apply for a credit card or a mortgage, you ‘profile’ people you invite to an intimate dinner party or any time you arrange a blind date.
    • In Britain, many dating agencies are located in southern England where the high density of population means people usually don't have to travel far to meet their blind dates.
    • Antonia and Nicholas, who will live at Clifton Moor in York, met on a blind date in April 2001 when friends decided it would be amusing to introduce them because they had the same surname.
    • ‘I'm like someone who arranged a blind date, and the people got married,’ Hendricks says.
    • Afterwards, the Prime Minister discreetly told her that he would ‘have a word’ with his son to see if he could arrange the blind date.
 
 

Definition of blind date in US English:

blind date

nounˈblaɪn(d) ˈˌdeɪtˈblīn(d) ˈˌdāt
  • 1A social engagement or date with a person one has not previously met.

    a blind date arranged by well-meaning friends
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Joanne Dove, an effervescent 42-year-old mother of seven, is a ‘shadchan’, one of the matchmakers who devote hours each day to arranging matrimonial blind dates.
    • ‘I'm like someone who arranged a blind date, and the people got married,’ Hendricks says.
    • You are ‘profiled’ every time you apply for a credit card or a mortgage, you ‘profile’ people you invite to an intimate dinner party or any time you arrange a blind date.
    • David L and his girlfriend began arranging a blind date for me next Friday and a trip to Hastings to boot.
    • We arranged a blind date for you, but we wanted it to be a complete surprise.
    • In June 2002, Jiang met Pu Gang (not his real name), 36, on a blind date arranged by a local matchmaking agency.
    • The pair met on a blind date rather than through work, however.
    • In Britain, many dating agencies are located in southern England where the high density of population means people usually don't have to travel far to meet their blind dates.
    • They met on a blind date through a common friend at the Monks Inn Restaurant in Manhattan.
    • Antonia and Nicholas, who will live at Clifton Moor in York, met on a blind date in April 2001 when friends decided it would be amusing to introduce them because they had the same surname.
    • After a joyous welcome at his Suffolk home he came up north to Blackburn to see Elsie, the girlfriend he had met on a blind date while training to go to war.
    • Besides, don't you remember the last time I arranged a blind date for you with one of my old flames?
    • Born in North Dakota, she graduated from the University of Illinois and was a junior high school teacher before she met Ellis on a blind date.
    • Near the end of 1952, Greenspan married artist Joan Mitchell, whom he had met ten months previously on a blind date.
    • Mudadiwa Chinyoka, who was born in Zimbabwe and whose visa ran out seven years ago, met 17-year-old Gemma Atkinson on a blind date in Doncaster arranged through a mutual friend.
    • Warm-hearted neighbours gave her food and clothes, helped find work for her and arranged blind dates.
    • Afterwards, the Prime Minister discreetly told her that he would ‘have a word’ with his son to see if he could arrange the blind date.
    • He grew up in the suburb in the 1950s, the mixed-race progeny of a Pakistani father and an English mother who met on a blind date at Victoria Station in 1950.
    • Retired farmer Joe met Margaret on a blind date at a Royal British Legion dance in Haworth.
    • On one occasion, the congressman even arranged a blind date, but nothing became of it.
    1. 1.1 Either person of the couple on a blind date.
      where do you take a blind date, anyway?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The drama centres on a successful Manhattan journalist, Theresa Bedell, whose blind date Tony, tactfully rejected on their second meeting, refuses to leave her alone.
      • Without much time for a social life, she begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing traditionalist mother who is afraid she'll never find a ‘nice Chinese man.’
      • It was sort of weird meeting Tommie - he was the not-quite-a blind date that I met through a mutual friend - his step-cousin.
      • He sets up just that moment, where the gross fat guy is humiliating himself by making out with the gross fat blind date, then she has to get at that candy in her pocket even then.
      • Jax looked behind him, and sure enough, Chloe's blind date from hell was marching toward them, and they had no time for escape because he was walking pretty fast.
      • The core factors that transformed the puppy love I had with psychology at the start of that course into the nightmare of being stuck with a boring, irrelevant blind date for an endless semester are still evident.
      • This was the fifth time that he was invited at some huge festivity over the last two years, and each time he thought that he would be damned to marry some blind date, something always got him out of it.
 
 
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