英文早点丨1203_前男友商店，我将你的感情作价销售

本文的主人公McGee打算从加拿大搬到英国，但有很多东西需要清理，大多都是她的历任前男友送给她的。她想知道她可以通过卖掉旧礼物赚取什么，跟其他人不同的是，她不想通过物品本身的价值定价，而是根据对自己的重要程度定价，她甚至想是否可以创造一种衡量情感价值的算法……

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.----Froude

A coffeepot, a vintage typewriter, a guitar and a necklace are among the items displayed on plinths on the stage. When McGee reveals more intimate information about each relationship, we raise or lower our valuations accordingly.

Working with mathematician Melanie Phillips, she established a dizzyingly complex formula that is outlined in the show. Part of the formula, the “relationship index”, measures her time with each ex on a scale of one to 10, including “how hard they made you laugh, the ratio of fun-to-misery and how good the sex was”.

文本选自 ：The Guardian（卫报）

作者 ：Chris Wiegand

原文标题 ：The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: can you put a price on sentimental value?

原文发布时间 ：27 Nov. 2018

vintage

英 [ˈvɪntɪdʒ]   美 [ˈvɪntɪdʒ]

• adj. 酿酒的;老式的，过时的;最好的，最有特色的;古老而享有声誉的