A new survey has found that nearly half of men would dump a woman who gained too much weight.
The poll, of 70,000 people across the US showed that 48 percent of men would not want to be with their partner if she became fat.

By contrast just 20 percent of women would stop seeing their man when faced with the situation.

The poll found that over a third of men believed that women started to loose their looks at the age of 40, while a quarter believe that a woman is beyond her prime after 50. The same was true of women, though a further 23 percent believe a man will never lose his looks.

In what is likely to be a further blow to women's relationship confidence, two-thirds of men admitted that they had fantasised about their partner's friends

James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen.com, which conducted the survey with Cosmopolitan.com explained that differing attitudes between men and women towards relationships had not changed over the years.

He said: "Even as men are getting more comfortable with meeting their girlfriends online... other romantic behaviors have proven to be timeless ones: chivalry isn't dead, size matters, and women forgive while men forget."




据英国《每日邮报》26日报道，一项新调查发现，将近一半的男人会与体重增长过多的女友分手。
这项在7万美国人中进行的调查表明，48%的男性不愿意与发胖的女友相处。



相反，在相同情况下，只有20%的女性会抛弃其男友。


这项调查发现，三分之一的男性认为女性在其40岁开始会容颜渐老，四分之一的男性认为女性在五十岁时就已经退出了人生的黄金阶段。虽然在这点上，女人与男性的态度一致，但还有23%以上的女性认为男人的相貌不会受年龄的影响。



给女人对感情的信心造成重创的是，三分之二的男性承认他们对自己女友的朋友们抱有幻想。



这项调查由AskMen.com和Cosmopolitan.com网站共同完成，AskMen.com的总编辑詹姆斯•巴希尔解释说，男人和女人对于双方关系上的态度差异多年来从未改变。



他说："虽然现在的男人觉得在线约会让他们更舒服，但有些浪漫行为是经久不衰的，比如说骑士精神从未消失，伴侣的身材影响关系，女人总是选择原谅而男人却更愿意遗忘。"

• survey [´sə:vei] vt.&n.俯瞰；审视；测量 (初中英语单词)
• partner [´pɑ:tnə] n.伙伴 v.同....合作 (初中英语单词)
• contrast [´kɔntrɑ:st] n.对比 v.使对比(照) (初中英语单词)
• romantic [rəu´mæntik] a.传奇(式)的；浪漫的 (初中英语单词)
• forgive [fə´giv] vt.原谅，谅解，宽恕 (初中英语单词)
• seeing [si:iŋ] see的现在分词 n.视觉 (高中英语单词)
• relationship [ri´leiʃənʃip] n.关系；联系；亲属关系 (高中英语单词)
• chivalry [´ʃivəlri] n.侠义；骑士团 (高中英语单词)