Without his knowledge, the matchmakers were at work.

他自己还不知道，媒人却已为他穿针引线了（×做工作了） 。

The retail industry is getting "reinvented", as we describe in our new book Matchmakers.

正如我们在新书《媒人》中所描述的那样，零售业正在被"改造"。

One of these is that people now move around more often for work, distancing themselves from friends and family members who could play matchmakers.

其中之一是如今人们为了工作更加频繁地流动，远离了能够担任媒人的朋友和家庭成员。

They lit cigarettes and joined in on the conversation and we realised that we were with a cartel of matchmakers, well used to trading in the dead.

他们点着烟加入了谈话，我们意识到我们是跟非常习惯于死人交易的媒人同业联盟在一起。

But, after some of the six matchmakers he used in the last few years started spilling the beans, Larry came out as a guy looking for perfection.

不过，过去这几年他曾聘用过六个媒人，当中终于有人说漏了嘴，拉里看来是一个寻求完美的人。

Most plants are specialists, they have only one or a few matchmakers.

大多数植物都是狭生性物种，它们只有一种或者很少的红娘。

Bees are very busy little matchmakers. Wingmen in every sense of the word.

小小蜜蜂是非常忙碌的红娘，在这世界的每一个角落牵线搭桥。

During the Three Kingdoms (220-280), Southern frontiers in China that were still behind in civilization had official matchmakers as well.

三国时期（公元220-280年），中国一些文明比较落后的南疆地区也有官媒一职。

Growing up in a Jewish household where my parents and grandparents spoke Yiddish, we even had a word (shadchen) for those who were matchmakers!

我生长在一个犹太家庭，父母和祖父母都说意第绪语，在意第绪语里，甚至有一个专门的词汇（shadchen）来称呼这种牵线搭桥的人。

They were taking part in a banquet organized by the Golden Bachelor Matchmakers, a company whose main revenue stream comes from finding female companions for wealthy men.

这个宴会由“钻石王老五”婚介公司发起，替有钱人寻找女伴，为这家公司带来稳定的主营收入。