研究发现，如果网上约会想获得成功，女性在个人资料的照片上应作出挑逗的表情，男性则应该展示自己的腹肌。

More people have ventured into the potentially hazardous waters of online dating than would care to admit - and some of their adventures have been truly hair-raising.

很多人会大胆尝试网上约会这一存在潜在危险的事情而不愿承认，而且其中一些人的网上约会经历还相当耸人听闻。

Now a group of former Harvard math majors are crunching the data to reveal the secret tips of the online dater, displaying them in - naturally - graph form.

目前一组曾经就读哈佛大学数学专业的研究人员正在分析数据，试图揭示网上约会的诀窍，并用图像的形式自然地展现出来。

Men, for example, should show off their six pack if they have one - but only if they're young. Meanwhile women should always flirt with the camera - but men should look aloof.

例如，男性如果有腹肌的话就应该展示出来，不过前提是他们是年轻男性。而女性则应该在镜头前作出挑逗的表情，但男性应该看起来冷漠些。

Vocabulary

hair-raising: 使人毛发直立的；惊险的
crunch: 快速大量地处理信息
six pack: 块块隆起的腹肌
aloof: 冷漠；冷淡