Wealthy women often get stereotyped as care-free spendthrifts, leaving their husbands to pay the bills and worry about the costs.
们对富婆的固定成见常常是：她们是不负责任的挥霍者，让自己的丈夫埋单、为花费操心。
But a survey released this morning shows a different side of affluent couples. According to a Merrill Lynch Wealth Management survey of 1,000 people with investible assets of $250,000 or more, women outpaced men when it came to financial worries.
不过，最近公布的一项调查却显示出了有钱夫妇的另外一面。美林财富管理(Merrill Lynch Wealth Management)对1,000位可投资资产不低于25万美元的人进行了调查，结果显示女性比男性更担心财务状况。
While 42% of men said they were concerned about the impact of economy on ability to achievefinancial goals, 56% of women expressed such concern.
有42%的男性说，他们担心经济可能对他们实现财务目标的能力带来影响，有56%的女性表达了类似的担忧。
Fully 70% of women were concerned about the rising costs of health care, compared with 54% of men. Half of all women said they were concerned about their income not keeping up with inflation, while only 39% of men were concerned.
有整整七成的女性担心不断上升的医疗成本，而男性这一比例为54%。有一半的女性说，她们担心收入增幅赶不上通货膨胀，男性的比例则为39%。
'From our perspective, this data are an indication that women's role in affluent households is broader and more comprehensive in terms of topics they're dealing with,' said Andy Sieg, head of retirement and philanthropic services for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
美国银行美林(Bank of America Merrill Lynch)退休及慈善服务主管斯伊格(Andy Sieg)说，我们认为，就女性所应对的问题上，这个数据显示了女性在富裕家庭中的作用要更广泛、更全面。
Women also may be more concerned about stretching out their money because they live longer than men. 'Historically, the conversation has been more dominated by the male side of the relationship, and yet what we know from common knowledge is that women do statistically live longer than men,' said Lyle LaMothe, head of U.S. Wealth Management for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.
女性更担心资金问题，还可能因为她们的寿命比男性长。美林财富管理的美国财富管理主管拉莫特(Lyle LaMothe)说，从历史上看，话题一直更多地以夫妻关系中的男性一面为主导，然而常识告诉我们，从统计数据看，女性确实比男性寿命要长。
Why do you think affluent women may be more worried than men about their finances?
你认为有钱女性可能比男性更担心财务状况的原因何在？
Robert Frank
- wealthy [´welθi]
a.富有的；丰富的 (初中词汇) - survey [´sə:vei] vt.&n.俯瞰；审视；测量 (初中词汇)
- wealth [welθ] n.财富，财产 (初中词汇)
- management [´mænidʒmənt] n.管理；处理；经营 (初中词汇)
- financial [fi´nænʃəl] a.金融的，财政的 (初中词汇)
- economy [i´kɔnəmi] n.经济；机制；组织 (初中词汇)
- ability [ə´biliti] n.(办事)能力；才干 (初中词汇)
- achieve [ə´tʃi:v] vt.完成；达到；获得 (初中词汇)
- income [´inkʌm] n.收入，所得 (初中词汇)
- indication [,indi´keiʃən] n.指示；征兆，迹象 (初中词汇)
- concerned [kən´sə:nd] a.有关的；担心的 (高中词汇)
- comprehensive [,kɔmpri´hensiv] a.综合的；理解的 (高中词汇)
- dealing [´di:liŋ] n.交易；来往 (高中词汇)
- relationship [ri´leiʃənʃip] n.关系；联系；亲属关系 (高中词汇)
- retirement [ri´taiəmənt] n.退休；撤退；幽静处 (四级词汇)
- impact [´impækt] n.影响，作用；冲击 (六级词汇)
- perspective [pə´spektiv] n.望远镜 a.透视的 (六级词汇)
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