在我們一般人看來(lái)，女人的膽量大多要比男人小的多。電影院里如果放映恐怖片，那么尖叫聲大多來(lái)自縮在男友懷里的女生們；而恐怖小說(shuō)也基本成為了男人們的專(zhuān)利；通常言情類(lèi)的小說(shuō)和影視作品才是女生們的專(zhuān)利。然而，這種傳統(tǒng)認(rèn)識(shí)在英國(guó)受到了挑戰(zhàn)，很多英國(guó)女生不再關(guān)注言情類(lèi)的影視小說(shuō)，她們把目光集中在了恐怖題材的作品上。
Forget the romantic novel. Most women are bored with, and cynical about, the well-trodden path of romantic fiction. They do not like happy endings and would rather read a thriller or crime novel.
忘了言情小說(shuō)吧。大多數(shù)的女性讀者早已厭倦了寫(xiě)法老套的言情小說(shuō)，她們不再喜歡言情小說(shuō)的圓滿(mǎn)結(jié)局，而更情愿看一本恐怖或者犯罪小說(shuō)。
But their literary idol is still Mr Darcy, the haughty hero of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
不過(guò)，她們心中的白馬王子仍然是簡(jiǎn)?奧斯汀《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》中那位傲慢的男主角達(dá)西先生。
A survey of 1,500 predominantly married, working women aged 35 to 59 found that the majority would rather read a good book than have sex, shop, or sleep.
一項(xiàng)針對(duì)1500名年齡在35歲至59歲、以已婚職業(yè)女性為主的調(diào)查結(jié)果顯示，與做愛(ài)、購(gòu)物和睡覺(jué)相比，大多數(shù)女性更喜歡閱讀一本好書(shū)。
Nearly half finished a book in less than a week, 48 per cent read more than one book at a time and, in the last year, one in five had spent ￡100 or more on novels.
其中，近一半的人在不到一周的時(shí)間里就讀完了一本書(shū)；48％的人同時(shí)閱讀了多本書(shū)；五分之一的人去年在購(gòu)買(mǎi)小說(shuō)上的開(kāi)銷(xiāo)超過(guò)了100英鎊。
The women surveyed said their favourite types of fiction were thrillers (47 per cent), contemporary fiction (46 per cent) and crime (45 per cent) with science fiction and romance their least favourite.
被調(diào)查者還指出，她們最喜歡的小說(shuō)類(lèi)型分別為恐怖小說(shuō)（47％）、當(dāng)代小說(shuō)（46％）、科幻犯罪小說(shuō)（45％），而最不喜歡的是言情小說(shuō)。
The findings correspond with public library statistics, published recently, which showed that in only 10 years the nation had ended its love affair with family sagas and books about romance and was devouring thrillers--the more ghoulish the better.
該調(diào)查結(jié)果與最新公布的公共圖書(shū)館統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)結(jié)果一致。該數(shù)據(jù)顯示，僅僅10年的時(shí)間，女人們已厭棄傳統(tǒng)的家庭愛(ài)情故事和浪漫的言情小說(shuō)，她們開(kāi)始迷戀恐怖小說(shuō)，且內(nèi)容越讓人毛骨悚然越好。
Comparative figures for 10 years ago showed that the late Catherine Cookson and Barbara Taylor Bradford, queens of raw family romances, were the authors most borrowed by adults from libraries.
10年前的統(tǒng)計(jì)結(jié)果表明，已故的言情小說(shuō)家凱瑟琳?庫(kù)克森和有著“家庭言情小說(shuō)女王”之稱(chēng)的芭芭拉?泰勒?布拉德福是圖書(shū)館最受歡迎小說(shuō)的作者。
The top 10 borrowed titles have a startlingly different feel now. Romance still made a showing, but the list was dominated by crime novels.
如今，圖書(shū)館中最受歡迎的10種書(shū)籍已經(jīng)較以前發(fā)生了巨大變化。言情小說(shuō)仍有讀者群，但犯罪小說(shuō)已處于領(lǐng)先地位。
However, today's survey by Woman & Home magazine found that if women could pick one book it would be the romantic classic Pride and Prejudice.
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Matthew MacFadyen, in Joe Wright's remake of "Pride & Prejudice".
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但這個(gè)由《婦女與家庭》雜志舉辦的調(diào)查結(jié)果同時(shí)顯示，如果一個(gè)女人挑了一本書(shū)來(lái)閱讀，這本書(shū)一定還是浪漫小說(shuō)的經(jīng)典之作《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》。
Mr Darcy was also regarded as the sexiest fictional man, beating Heathcliffe (Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights), Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell) and Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte).
書(shū)中男主角達(dá)西先生同樣被認(rèn)為是最性感的小說(shuō)男主角，他擊敗了對(duì)手海希克里夫（艾米麗?勃朗特《呼嘯山莊》中的男主角）、白瑞德（瑪格麗特?米切爾《飄》中的男主角）和羅切斯特先生（夏洛特?勃朗特《簡(jiǎn)?愛(ài)》中的男主角）。
The only modern hero to get a vote was Ian Fleming's James Bond. If they were to be a character in a book, most women would be Elizabeth Bennett. Gone with the Wind's Scarlett O'Hara was voted the most glamorous female character.
而唯一入選的當(dāng)代小說(shuō)男主角是伊恩?弗萊明筆下的詹姆士?邦德。被調(diào)查者表示，如果她們可以化身為小說(shuō)中的女主角，她們大都愿意成為伊麗莎白?班納特（《傲慢與偏見(jiàn)》的女主角），而《飄》的女主角斯嘉麗?奧哈拉是她們眼中最富有魅力的女主人公。
（來(lái)源：大耳朵英語(yǔ) 實(shí)習(xí)生許雅寧 英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Yvonne 編輯）
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