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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Many men would dump overweight partner - study 研究：許多男人會甩掉過重的伴侶
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Men are more concerned with their partner’s body type than women but they also seem to value family more highly, according to a new survey.
男人比女人更在意伴侶的體型，不過他們似乎也更重視家庭，據一項新研究指出。
Nearly half of men questioned in the poll of 70,000 people said they would ditch a partner who gained weight, compared to only 20 percent of women.
在7萬名受訪者當中，近半數男性表示，他們會拋棄一個體重增加的伴侶，而只有20％的女性持這個看法。
Two-thirds of men also said they had fantasised about their partner’s friends, while only one-third of women had done so.
2/3的男性還表示，他們曾對配偶的朋友有遐想，而只有1/3的女性有這種想法。
’’Even as men are getting more comfortable with meeting their girlfriends online and less anxious about who she’s ’friending’ there, other romantic behaviors have proven to be timeless ones：chivalry isn’t dead, size matters, and women forgive while men forget,’’ said James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen, which conducted the poll jointly with Cosmopolitan.com.
進行此次民調的「AskMen」雜誌總編輯詹姆斯．巴席爾表示：「儘管男性已越來越接受上網會女友，也對女性在網路上將誰『加入好友名單』不那麼介意，但有些浪漫行為證實是亙古不變的：騎士精神仍在，身材很重要，女人原諒而男人忘記。」此次民調由AskMen和Cosmopolitan.com聯合進行。
The poll also found that men were more likely to lie about the number of sex partners they had been with, and 42 percent said that they would consider a woman sexually promiscuous if she had slept with over 10 men.
調查還發現，相較於女人，男人更會謊報自己性伴侶的數量；而且42％的男性認為，跟10個以上男人上過床的女人就算性淫亂。
By contrast, almost the same number of women said that they would consider a man overly promiscuous after 20 sexual partners.
相形之下，數量相近的女性認為，男人的性伴侶超過20個才算過度淫亂。
新聞辭典
ditch：動詞，捨棄。例句：Did you know that Sarah has ditched her boyfriend?（你知道莎拉拋棄男友了嗎？）
friending：在社交網站中，friend當動詞用，是指將某人加入朋友名單 （的動作）。unfriending則是「解除好友關係」。不過這種用法是網路上的習慣用語，並非標準英語。
promiscuous：形容詞，雜亂的；不分男女的； 男女亂交的。用法如：promiscuous bathing（男女混浴）、promiscuous sexual relations（性亂交）。
