矫情饰貌短文翻译

2020年12月11日发(作者：卜商)

(翻译) 找恋人将失去两位好友
The price of love: Finding a partner costs two close friendships, scientists reveal

Expensive: The cost of finding love is, on average, two inner circle friends, scientists have found.
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Ever found yourself dumped by a friend embarking on a romance? Don't worry, you're probably
not the only one. For according to Oxford University scientists, every time we start a relationship
we jettison two of our closest friends.
Most of us simply don't have enough time for intimate friendships with more than four or five
people, their research shows.
And a new love interest leads to two friends being pushed out of the inner circle.
Professor Robin Dunbar, one of Britain's leading experts in evolutionary biology, explained: 'If you
go into a romantic relationship it actually costs you two friends in that inner core of relationships.
'Instead of having the typical five friends, they only have four in that inner circle. And bearing in
mind that one of those is the new person that has come into your life, it means you have to give
up two others.'
Men tend to have four or five intimate friends, women five or six, he said.
However, men were just as likely to jettison friends at the start of a new romantic attachment as
women, found the study of those aged 18 to 60.
'Your attention is so wholly focused on the romantic partners, you just don't get to see the other
folks you had a lot to do with before,' the professor told the British Science Festival in
Birmingham. 'Those relationships start to deteriorate.'
But it's not just romance that can push out close friends, he explained. Children or buying a dog
can have the same effect.
'You can only have five slots for deeply intense and meaningful relations. Those individuals don't
have to be human. They can be your dog - or your favourite chrysanthemum plant. They can be
people in an entirely fictional world - they can be soap opera characters. They can be God or they
can be saints.'
(Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Web site.)
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(Agencies) 你是否曾发现自己在开始一段恋情的时候被朋 友抛弃？不必担心，你很可能不是
唯一一个遭遇这种事情的人。因为按照牛津大学科学家的说法，我们每 开始一段感情，就会
抛弃两位最亲密的朋友。
他们的研究显示，我们当中的大多数人根本没有 足够的时间和四五个以上的人保持亲密的友
谊关系。
而且，对新恋人的关注会使两位朋友被疏远。
英国进化生物学权威专家之一罗宾?邓巴教授解 释说：“如果你投入到一段恋情中，你就会失
去情感圈内的两位朋友。”
“在那个圈内，你拥 有的不再是往常的五位朋友，而是四位。同时记住，其中一位是刚走进
你生活的新成员，这意味着你必须 放弃另外两个。”
他说，男性一般有四到五个好友，而女性有五到六个好友。
尽管如此，该 研究发现，同女性一样，在一段新恋情开始之际，男性也会抛弃一些朋友。该
研究涵盖了年龄从18岁到 60岁的人群。
邓巴教授在伯明翰的英国科学节上讲道：“你的注意力完全集中到恋人身上，而忽视了 之前
跟你关系很密切的其他人，于是这些关系就开始疏远。”
他解释说，不过，并非只有恋情会将好友挤出圈外。孩子或新买的宠物狗也会如此。
“你只有 五个位置来安放深厚、强烈而又重要的感情关系。这些个体不一定非得是人，他们
可以是你的小狗，或是 你最喜爱的菊花。他们可以是纯虚构的世界里的人，可以是肥皂剧里
的人物。他们也可以是上帝或圣人。 ”
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（中国日报网英语点津 实习生强凤华 编辑：陈丹妮）
Vocabulary:
embark on: 从事，着手，开始（新的或艰难的事情）
jettison: to get rid of somethingsomebody that you no longer need or want（摆脱；抛弃）
have a lot to do with: 与……有很大联系
deteriorate: to become worse（变坏；恶化；退化）
slot: a position, a time or an opportunity for somebodysomething（位置，时间，机会）
chrysanthemum: a large, brightly coloured garden flower that is shaped like a ball and made up
of many long narrow petals（菊花）