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作者: catfelix 时间: 2012-1-6 12:07
标题: 女孩要美貌还是要学识？

My 15-year-old daughter is disinclined to work for her GCSEs, saying her time is better spent preening herself in preparation for assignations with her delightful, diligent, privately educated, moneyed boyfriend. She insists the money spent on nail-painting, hair-colouring and the like is an investment and will be more than repaid when he marries her. Is she deluding herself?-----A curious mother

我15岁的女儿不愿为拿到英国普通中等教育证书(GCSE)而努力学习，称自己把时间花在穿着打扮上更有意义，为的是与她那个讨人喜欢、勤奋、上私立学校的有钱男友约会。她坚称，花在美甲和染发等方面的钱是一种投资，在男友迎娶自己时就会获得更多的回报。她是在欺骗自己吗？-------一位好奇的母亲

Dear Curious Mother,

Surprising as this may seem in the 21st century, your daughter's strategy is not unusual. Evidence on speed-dating gathered by the economists Michèle Belot and Marco Francesconi shows that women are attracted by rich men, while men focus more on a woman's physical appearance. Lena Edlund, another economist, has found that in the areas of her native Sweden where the wealthiest men live, women of prime marriageable age are over-represented.

亲爱的好奇母亲：

尽管在二十一世纪这种情况可能会非常令人吃惊，但你女儿的策略并不罕见。经济学家米谢勒·贝洛(Michèle Belot)和马尔科·弗兰切斯科尼(Marco Francesconi)收集的有关闪电约会的证据表明，女性受到有钱男性的吸引，而男性更关注女性的容貌。另一位经济学家莱娜·埃德隆德(Lena Edlund)发现，在其祖国瑞典最富有男士生活的地区，处于最佳适婚年龄的女性比例过高。

However, your daughter is only 15; for Edlund, "prime marriageable age" is 25-44. Your daughter is either going to have to get her hooks into this chap unusually early, or she is going to have to keep him on the boil for another decade – a lot of nail-painting.

不过，你的女儿只有15岁；在埃德隆德看来，“最佳适婚年龄”是25岁至44岁。你的女儿要么必须及早把这家伙弄到手，要么就必须设法让他保持激情再等上10年——那需要大量的美甲。

Not only is she concentrating her investments into a single asset by abandoning her education, but she may even be making her main goal harder to achieve. Belot and Francesconi discovered that a strong social trend towards “assortative mating” means that although educated, high-achieving men are not interested in marrying a rich woman, they do like educated high-achieving women, rather than shallow girls with shiny nails.

她放弃自身教育的结果是，不仅她的投资仅集中于单一的资产，而且甚至可能会让她的主要目标更加难以实现。贝洛和弗兰切斯科尼发现，存在一种强烈的“选型交配”社交趋势，即尽管受过教育的成功男士对与有钱女士结婚不感兴趣，但他们确实喜欢受过教育的成功女士，而不是指甲闪亮的浅薄女子。

Your daughter should learn to work hard and look good at the same time. Not only will it advance her immediate goals, it will also – sadly – stand her in good stead for the rest of her life.

你的女儿应该学会在努力学习的同时也把自己打扮得漂漂亮亮。这不仅能帮她提前实现当前的目标，而且——遗憾的是——在以后的日子里都会让她受益无穷。

作者: catfelix 时间: 2012-1-6 12:08
Your daughter should learn to work hard and look good at the same time. Not only will it advance her immediate goals, it will also – sadly – stand her in good stead for the rest of her life.

作者: binbinbug 时间: 2012-1-6 12:19
本帖最后由 binbinbug 于 2012-1-6 12:20 编辑

如果自己长得姥姥不亲舅舅不爱的，那么就努力工作攒钱去整容，然后找更好的工作傍科长努力工作向上爬当个主任，然后再攒钱去塑身、学管理ＭＢＡ在童鞋里傍个总经理当个科长，然后学琴棋书画高尔夫攒钱增高到168-170傍个老总，给老总孩子当个又漂亮、又能歌善舞，晓琴棋书画的好妈。

作者: 山炮 时间: 2012-1-6 12:46
希望她们都选择美貌，省得我们眼馋，看得见吃不着。至于最终有多少女孩能投资成功，那不关我事。

作者: 黯然风起 时间: 2012-1-6 14:19

binbinbug 发表于 2012-1-6 12:19
如果自己长得姥姥不亲舅舅不爱的，那么就努力工作攒钱去整容，然后找更好的工作傍科长努力工作向上爬当个主 ...

事实证明，金喜善的女儿长得可丑了……

作者: binbinbug 时间: 2012-1-6 14:41

黯然风起发表于 2012-1-6 14:19
事实证明，金喜善的女儿长得可丑了……

说的就是嘛，原产韩国那边的，很少有漂亮的。
以前在那边逛街，很难看到漂亮的，即使整过，单眼皮喇成了双眼皮，眼睛割大了，但瞳孔虹膜小，四白眼看起来十分邪恶。
这些年那边整容得忒多，眼睛喇大了，再配上美瞳，看起来没那么不顺眼。
不过韩国人那种睁眼说瞎话，明明它们自己船炸了，自己在和人家有争议的地方军演，先向人家打炮，自己却诬赖人家的行径，太让我不齿了，所以对找个韩国女孩做老婆或找韩国儿媳妇完全没兴趣。

作者: Jewel 时间: 2012-1-6 15:08
智慧与美貌并存不是很好？！

作者: catfelix 时间: 2012-1-6 16:36
两全其美当然好啊

作者: Andy.Yang 时间: 2012-1-6 16:43
Both for better...

作者: 往事如烟 时间: 2012-1-6 17:13

Andy.Yang 发表于 2012-1-6 16:43
Both for better...

如果知识和心灵好的话,不追求相貌的完美.

作者: H-RH 时间: 2012-1-6 17:27
本帖最后由 H-RH 于 2012-1-7 14:02 编辑

If the girls study hard & become well educated, she will have more chance to meet the professional or the rich men.

作者: Andy.Yang 时间: 2012-1-7 13:45

往事如烟发表于 2012-1-6 17:13
如果知识和心灵好的话,不追求相貌的完美.

That's for sure....

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