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Must Love Dog

Sarah (Diane Lane) is a just-divorced pre-school teacher whom seemingly everyone in the world wants to set up on a date, much to her chagrin¹. She insists on staying out of the horrid² dating scene, until her meddlesome³ sister (Elizabeth Perkins) takes it upon herself to put a listing on a matchmaking Web site, under the canine⁴-friendly heading sharing the movie's title. Cusack's Jake, a morose⁵ boat builder who's also goaded⁶ by a well-meaning but shrewish friend, replies. After an initial rendezvous⁸, and a couple of dates, everything is going swimmingly, until-in what gently passes for a complication- another man steps into her life: Bobby (Dermot Mulroney), an athletic⁹ single father of one of her young students and straight-up nice guy. For just a while there, it's hard to tell which suitor she'll end up with…unless you've seen these kinds of movies before: Man and woman meet in a cute way, spend time together while insisting they're in love with different people (whom only we can see are bad for them) only to come to their senses at the last minute and race across town to stop the other from getting on a train. But quite simply, it works, often like a charm. 


chagrin n. 懊恼，委屈，烦闷                      horrid a. 恐怖的，令人讨厌的
meddlesome a. 爱管闲事的，好干涉的       canine a. 犬的，似犬的  
cute a. 可爱的，伶俐漂亮的                       charm n. 符咒，魔力
athletic a. 运动的，运动员的                      shrewish a. 凶悍的，脾气暴躁的 

morose a. 郁闷的，闷闷不乐的，坏脾气的，难相处的
goad⁷ vt. 用（赶家畜用的）刺棒驱赶——唆使，煽动 
rendezvous n. 指定集合地点——聚会，约会
swimmingly a. 顺畅地，轻易地