外國人最想和你聊的文化話題：關(guān)于離婚

     According to a new study, divorce is catching.
     一項最新研究顯示，離婚會傳染。
     The researchers have called it "divorce clustering" and say that a split up between immediate friends increases your own chances of getting divorced by 75%.
     研究人員把這種傳染性稱為"離婚群聚效應(yīng)"，他們指出，親近的朋友離婚會使你的離婚幾率增加75%。
     The effect drops to 33% if the divorce is between friends of a friend, what the researchers call two degrees of separation, and then disappears almost completely at three degrees of separation.
     如果有朋友的朋友（也就是研究人員所說的二級維度關(guān)系人群）離婚，那么你離婚的幾率就會降到33%，而三級維度關(guān)系人群離婚對你的婚姻基本不會產(chǎn)生影響。
     It is not only the marital status of friends but also siblings and colleagues which has a significant effect on how long your own marriage might last.
     除了朋友外，家中手足以及單位同事的婚姻狀況也會對我們的婚姻關(guān)系產(chǎn)生重大影響。
     Breaking up will catch on among your friends, and the more divorces you know, the higher your own chances of becoming one.
     分手的情緒會在朋友之間傳播，你認識的離婚人士越多，你自己離婚的幾率也就越高。
     Divorce, inheritance and business nous has helped a growing number of women to become millionaires, who have increased at five times the rate of wealthy men.
     離婚、遺產(chǎn)繼承和商業(yè)頭腦使得越來越多的女性成為百萬富翁，其增長速度為有錢男性的五倍。
     Wealth used to be a man's world, but the gap between the sexes is narrowing when it comes to money, a new report shows.
     財富曾被認為是男性的"專利"，但據(jù)一項最新報告顯示，如今男女財富的差距越來越小。
     Female millionaires has been rising on the back of social trends-such as inheritance and the rapidly climbing divorce rate-and they now make up nearly half of all millionaires in the UK.
     隨著遺產(chǎn)繼承、不斷攀升的離婚率等各種社會潮流的出現(xiàn)，英國女百萬富翁的數(shù)量持續(xù)上升，占英國百萬富翁總數(shù)近一半。
     According to the Time of September 19, WedLock, as it's coyly named, is a new type of casualty insurance that gives the unhappily married policyholder a payout after he or she is unhitched.
     據(jù)《時代雜志》9月19日報道，婚姻離婚保險"婚姻保護鎖"是一種給婚姻不幸福的投保人離婚后賠償?shù)男滦鸵馔獗ｋU。
     The global trend toward higher divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, scientists at Michigan State University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
     密歇根州立大學(xué)的科學(xué)家們在《國家科學(xué)院院刊》上發(fā)表研究報告稱，全球離婚率日益上升導(dǎo)致家庭數(shù)量增多，家庭成員減少。
     Italy is holding its first divorce fair, offering services such as life coaching and beauty advice to a booming number of separating couples in the Catholic country.
     意大利即將舉辦該國的首屆離婚博覽會，旨在為這個天主教國家不斷增長的離婚人群提供生活指導(dǎo)和美容建議等服務(wù)。
     Even in regions with declining population, we see substantial increase in the number of households. Divorce is the main reason for reducing the number of people in a household.
     即使在人口負增長地區(qū)，家庭數(shù)量的增長也相當(dāng)可觀。離婚是造成家庭成員減少的主要原因。
     Researchers found that marriage breakdown can take a significant toll on appearance.
     研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，婚姻破裂會對人的外貌造成很大影響。
     They looked at identical twins, who would be genetically predisposed to age at a similar pace, to determine whether certain experiences affected ageing.
     為確定某些經(jīng)歷是否會影響衰老，研究人員對同卵雙生的雙胞胎進行了研究，發(fā)現(xiàn)這些雙胞胎在基因的設(shè)定下衰老速度完全一樣。
     The results showed that the twin who had gone through a divorce appeared two years older than the one who was married, single or had been widowed.
     結(jié)果顯示，一對雙胞胎中的離婚者比已婚、單身或守寡者看起來要老兩歲。
     India's minority Muslim population is governed by Islamic personal laws on issues such as marriage, divorce and property inheritance.
     穆斯林占印度人口的比例較小，他們的結(jié)婚、離婚及財產(chǎn)繼承等私人事宜都由伊斯蘭的《屬人法》管轄。
     In a British study of married men and women, the majority of wives-59 per cent-said they would divorce immediately if their future economic security was assured.
     英國一項對已婚男女的調(diào)查表明，多數(shù)女性（59%）表示如果以后在經(jīng)濟上能得到保障，她們會馬上離婚。
     It's so easy for married couples to get stuck in a rut once the realities of paying the bills and getting the children's breakfast sets in.
     對于已婚夫婦而言，一旦支付賬單和給孩子做早餐等家庭瑣事成為每天的現(xiàn)實，兩個人便很容易陷入"陳規(guī)"。
     Relationships inevitably change over time. Divorce impacts on every single area of a person's life. Dividing up the family home, pets and everything they own is just part of the process.
     久而久之，兩人的感情必然發(fā)生變化。離婚會對個人生活的方方面面產(chǎn)生影響，分家、分寵物、分財產(chǎn)僅是其中的一部分。