外國人最想和你聊的文化話題：新同居時代

     Only two decades ago in China, cohabitation was regarded as a corrupt and decadent Western lifestyle, and the adjective "illegal"accompanied any mention of it.
     在20年前的中國，"同居"還被認(rèn)為是一種腐化墮落的西方生活方式。人們提起它時，總會在前面加上"非法"一詞。
     The college students inclined to agree with "cohabitation","premarital sexual behavior", the male agreed with them more than female.
     大學(xué)生多傾向于贊同"同居"、"婚前性行為"，男性的贊同程度高于女性。
     The study revealed that 69 percent of college students thought that premarital cohabitation or premarital sex was acceptable.
     研究顯示，69%的大學(xué)生認(rèn)為婚前同居或婚前性行為是可以接受的。
     But those who live together before marriage are more likely to divorce.
     但是那些婚前同居的人更有可能離婚。
     They're only probationary cohabits.
     他們只是試婚同居者。
     The two of them don't intend to get married, but they've been shacking up together for a year now.
     他們兩人并不打算結(jié)婚，但他們同居已一年多了。
     Many believe living together before getting hitched allows couples to get used to each other's idiosyncrasies, paving the way for a smooth married life. But a relate survey suggested those who live together but don't marry are up to 40 per cent more likely to be unfaithful than those who tie the knot.
     很多人認(rèn)為婚前同居可以幫助情侶習(xí)慣彼此的生活習(xí)慣，婚后生活會更順利。但相關(guān)研究顯示，同居但沒結(jié)婚的男女的出軌率比已婚人士高出四成。
     Couples who live together before marriage and those who don't both have about the same chances of a successful union, according to a federal report out Tuesday that turns earlier cohabitation research on its head.
     周二出爐的一份關(guān)于同居的聯(lián)邦調(diào)查報告結(jié)果顯示：未婚先同居和婚后才同居的情侶們最后成功結(jié)合的概率不相上下。
     Of those married 10 or more years, 60% of women and 62% of men had ever cohabited; 61% of women and 63% of men had cohabited only with the one they married.
     調(diào)查顯示，在婚齡超過10年的夫婦中，有60%的女性和62%的男性曾有過婚前同居行為。在有過同居史的人中，有61%的女性和63%的男性只和目前的配偶同居過。
     Meanwhile, 66% of women and 69% of men married 10 years had never cohabited.
     而婚齡正好是10年的夫婦中有66%的女性和69%的男性從來沒有婚前同居過。
     Paul Amato, a sociologist at Pennsylvania State University, says the new data suggest that "maybe the effect of premarital cohabitation is becoming less of a problem than it was in the past. "
     賓州州立大學(xué)社會學(xué)家保爾·艾瑪說這些新數(shù)據(jù)表示婚前同居行為對最終婚姻的影響較之以前要小。
     If it becomes normative now, maybe it's not such a big deal.
     如果婚前同居成為一個規(guī)范，那么它將不再是一個問題。
     Here's a real difference in the types of cohabitations out there.
     不同的同居前提最終帶來的結(jié)果并不相同。
     Those who live together after making plans to marry or getting engaged have about the same chances of divorcing as couples who never cohabited before marriage.
     已經(jīng)計劃結(jié)婚或者訂婚后再住在一起的，跟從未同居者的婚后離異率并沒有差別。
     But those who move in together before making any clear decision to marry appear to have an increased risk of divorce.
     但還沒有明確結(jié)婚計劃就住在一起的情侶則有更高的離婚率。
     Men who were engaged when they moved in with their future spouse had about the same odds that their marriage would last at least 10 years as those who didn't live together before the wedding: 71% for engaged men and 69% for non-cohabiting men.
     訂婚后就同居的男性，婚齡可以保持十年以上的幾率，跟從未婚前同居的男性幾乎相同，分別是71%和69%。
     The nature of commitment at the time of cohabitation is what's important.
     同居時的承諾是至關(guān)重要的。
     To leave the premarital inhabitation to private life and personal choice is a symbol of development and advancement of social awareness.
     將非婚同居現(xiàn)象視為個人私生活選擇權(quán)，保留給個人處理，是社會文明發(fā)展與進(jìn)步的表征。
     Thousands of people cohabit without being married.
     數(shù)以千計的人沒有結(jié)婚就同居。
     Co-habitation is one of the manners for love affair.
     同居是戀愛關(guān)系方式的一種。
     A quarter of young cohabiting couples are unmarried.
     四分之一的青年同居伴侶是未婚的。
     Some people choose to cohabit rather than marry.
     有些人選擇同居而不結(jié)婚。
     Co-habitation is the right of the young blood.
     同居對新生代很合適。
     Men think 25 is the right age for women to marry; and that their chances of finding a husband declines year by year after that.
     男性認(rèn)為女性的最佳婚齡是25歲，之后她們找到伴侶的幾率會越來越小。
     On the other hand, women think men around 31 are at the best age to marry, and 15 percent consider those at 40 attractive.
     另一方面，女性認(rèn)為男性的最佳婚齡在31歲左右，有15%的人認(rèn)為40歲的男性很有魅力。
     When we talk about sex, we can see that China has been impacted more by Western mores than other developing countries.
     中國在性這一方面受西方的影響比其他發(fā)展中國家要多。