It’s not men who spend their time secretly ogling women - it’s women, according to a revealing new study.
一项新研究惊人地揭露说，总爱偷瞄女人的并不是男人——而是女人。
And it is the fairer sex that gives their rivals’ bodies a good visual once-over, found Bristol University researchers, rather than their supposedly Neanderthal partners. Men are more likely to concentrate on a potential mate’s face.
布里斯托尔大学的研究人员发现，更喜欢上下打量女性身体的是女性，而不是人们通常以为的男性。男性的注意力更多地集中在潜在配偶的脸蛋上。
The academics came to their conclusions after asking volunteers to examine a range of different images, includingstills from nature documentaries, classical and surrealist paintings, and freeze-frames of couples in films.
学者们让志愿者们观看一组各式各样的图片之后得出了这些结论。这些图片包括从自然纪录片中截取的静态画面、古典主义和超现实主义绘画，以及电影中男女恋人的定格画面。
The last category included one of the final scenes from Love Actually, starring Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon, where the pair appear on a school stage together. Grant plays a fictional prime minister who becomes besotted with a maid at Number 10, and the couple end up kissing on stage at the end of a nativity play.
最后一类图片包括休•格兰特和玛汀•麦古基安主演的电影《真爱至上》最后一幕的一张图片，在这张图片上男女主角一同出现在学校舞台上。格兰特扮演虚拟人物英国首相，他被唐宁街10号的女仆迷住了。在这个圣诞影片的结尾，这对情侣在舞台上热吻。
Another scene was from the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in which Audrey Hepburn’s tightly-wound character Holly Golightly tussles over a table lamp with her tenant Paul Varjak, played by George Peppard.
另外一张图片取自1961年经典电影《蒂凡尼的早餐》，在图片中，奥黛丽•赫本饰演的焦头烂额的霍莉•戈莱特丽和她的房客、乔治•佩帕德饰演的保罗•瓦雅克因为一盏台灯而起了争执。
The researchers found women weren’t interested in looking at Grant or Peppard: it was McCutcheon and Hepburn they focused on.
研究人员发现，女人对于看格兰特或佩帕德并没有太多兴趣，她们关注的是麦古基安和赫本。
They spent 61 percent of their time looking at the women in the pictures, and only 39 percent on the men.
她们花61%的时间来看图片中的女人，而只花39%的时间看男人。
When they looked at the women their eyes tended to roam around the whole figure, while men concentrated on the face.
当她们看图片中的女人时，会从头到脚全方位地打量，而男人的目光则集中在脸蛋上。
Felix Mercer Mos, a computer science PhD student, who led the study, said: “This is counter-intuitive from a sexual perspective if you are thinking about desire, but it’s not surprising if you look at it in terms of sexual competition.”
这一研究的领头人、计算机科学专业的博士生菲利克斯•梅塞•莫斯说：“如果从性欲角度来考虑，这是和天性相悖的，但是如果从同性竞争的角度来看，这个结果就不奇怪了。”
He continued: “The women might be checking out their sexual rivals, and comparing themselves with them.”
他还说：“女人可能是打量她们的性竞争对手，然后将自己和她们作比较。”
He noted: “That’s speculation of course - I’ve no proof whatsoever.”
他指出：“这当然是猜测——我并没有任何证据。”
Men did prefer looking at the women - but only just - by a margin of 53 to 47 percent.
男人的确更喜欢看女人，只不过持这种想法的男人所占比例并不太高，仅为53%，其余47%并不是这样。
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