男女做好朋友的可能性.docVIP

　　Being attracted to friends of the opposite sex is a burden and can harm relationships, researchers have claimed. 　　研究人员认为，异性友谊是一种负担，并可能会伤害到恋爱关系。 　　The new study, which reignites the debate over whether men and women can be just friends, found that the majority of people believe that opposite sex friends are actually a burden. 　　最近的一项研究重新引起了“男人和女人能不能做朋友”的这场争论。该研究发现，大部分人相信异性友谊其实是负担。 　　They say the problem is that attraction is common between people in opposite-sex friendships. 　　研究人员表示，问题在于异性朋友之间普遍互相吸引。 　　When participants were asked to list benefits and drawbacks of having opposite-sex friends, 32 per cent listed feelings of attraction as a cost, while just 6 percent listed these feelings as abenefit. 　　当要求受试者们列出拥有异性朋友的优势和劣势时，32%的人认为互相吸引的感觉是负担，而只有6%的人表示这种感觉有好处。 　　Women were more likely than men to say attraction was a drawback: 47 percent of women ages 18 to 23 listed attraction as a cost of an opposite-sex friendship, while 22 percent of men said the same. 　　女性比男性更可能把互相吸引看成是负担：研究中有47%年龄在18岁到23岁之间的女性，把吸引力列为异性友谊的负担，而只有22%的男性持相同的观点。 　　Opposite-sex friendships may also harm romantic relationships. In the study, 38 percent of women and 25 percent of men ages 27 to 50 said jealousy from their romantic partners was one cost of maintaining an opposite-sex friendship. 　　异性友谊也可能伤害到恋爱关系。在研究中，有38%的女性和25%的男性（年龄都在27岁和50岁之间）说导致恋人嫉妒是维持异性友谊的代价之一。 　　In addition, the more attraction that people felt in an opposite-sex friendship, the less satisfied they were with their current romantic relationship, the researchers told MyHealthNewsDaily. 　　另外，人们在异性友谊中感觉到的吸引力越大，他们对当前的恋爱关系越不满意，研究人员对《每日健康新闻》这样说。 　　Our findings implicate attraction in cross-sex friendship as both common and of potentialnegative consequence for individuals’ long-term mateships, the researchers, from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, write in the August issue of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 　　“我们的研究表明，异性友谊中的双方普遍彼此互相吸引，这种关系会对个人长期的伴偶关系有着潜在的负面影响。” 来自威斯康星大学的研究人员欧-克莱尔在八月刊的《社会与个体关系》中发表