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Clever women are heavy drinkers 高学历女人爱“贪杯”
导读:研究表明:受教育程度越高的女性,喝的也越多!这也颠覆了人们心目中“高雅”的女性形象。研究人员称,高学历女性一般会选择晚育(late birth),因此不太介意饮酒的害处;而身在男性主导职场中的她们,又很难做到滴酒不沾。
持有学位的女性和学历较低的同龄女性相比,不但每天喝酒的可能性是后者的接近两倍,而且承认自己有酗酒问题的可能性也较大。 Those with degrees are almost twice as likely to drink daily, and they are also more likely to admit to having a drinking problem.
类似的受教育程度与饮酒之间关系在男性中也同样存在,只是没有女性那样明显罢了。 A similar link between educational attainment and alcohol consumption is seen among men, but the correlation is less strong.
这些发现源自英国伦敦经济学院进行的一项综合性调查。研究员在这项调查中,追踪了上万名在1970年同一星期生于英国的男女生活。 The findings come from a comprehensive study carried out at the London School of Economics in which researchers tracked the lives of thousands of 39-year-old women and men, all born in the UK during the same week in 1970.
报告结论为:“女性受教育程度越高,就越可能大部分时间饮酒;而且报告自己因喝酒模式而产生问题的可能性也越大。 The report concludes: "The more educated women are, the more likely they are to drink alcohol on most days and to report having problems due to their drinking patterns.
“受良好教育的女性似乎正是那些陷入有问题的饮酒模式的人。” "The better-educated appear to be the ones who engage the most in problematic patterns of alcohol consumption."
女性的饮酒量甚至可从5岁时的学校考试成绩中预测出来。 Women's alcohol consumption can even be predicted from their scores in school tests taken when they are as as young as five.
女性念书时在测验中取得“普通”或“高”分数,成年后每天喝酒的可能性高出二点一倍。 Women who achieved "medium" or "high" test marks as schoolgirls are up to 2.1 times more likely to drink daily as adults.
报告撰写人博尔戈诺维和韦尔塔认为女性学历越高喝酒越多的原因有很多。 The authors of the report, Francesca Borgonovi and Maria Huerta, suggest several possible explanations as to why better-educated women drink more.
因为她们生孩子的时间相对较晚,推迟了她们承担为人父母责任的时间。她们也有更活跃的社交生活,又或许在一个男性主导的领域工作,因而在工作时接受饮酒的文化。 They tend to have children later, postponing the responsibilities of parenthood. They may have more active social lives or work in male-dominated workplaces with a drinking culture.
相关词汇:
cardiovascular 心血管的
consumption 消耗量
correlation 关联
formative 形成的
postpone 延期; 推迟
problematic 成问题的,产生困难的
predict 预测
substantial 实质的, 基本的