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女人可以通过声音选男友

时间:2013-02-17 01:55:27

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   A man's voice is an indicator1 of his body strength, according to a study.

  研究表明,男人的声音是力量的体现。
  The study, led by Aaron Sell at the University of California, found that women can accurately2 assess a man's body strength based on his voice alone, suggesting that the male voice may have evolved as an indicator of fighting ability.
  加利福尼亚大学教授艾伦塞尔带领研究的实验表明,女性可以依据男性的声音精确判断其体力,研究人员故而推测:声音或许已经进化成为衡量男人战斗能力的标准。
  The researchers recorded the voices of more than 200 men from the US, Argentina, Bolivia and Romania, who all repeated a short phrase in their native tongue. Sell's team also put the men through a battery of tests of upper body strength.
  研究人员记录了来自美国、阿根廷、玻利维亚和罗马尼亚的200名男性受试者不断重复各自方言,同时,研究人员还对他们进行了一系列体能测试。
  After listening to the recordings3, university female students could accurately predict the strength of the men, based on a seven-point scale. The voice analysis provided just as much information about a speaker's strength as photographs.
  接下来,研究人员请女大学生只听录音,然后凭感觉给受试者的体力打分,满分为7分。结果发现,她们都能准确评估出受试者的体力,即她们感觉比较强壮(弱小)的男性,在照片上看来也比较强壮(弱小)。
  What aspects of voice women link with strength remain unknown. The study was published in the journal Proceedings4 of the Royal Society.
  是什么能让女性仅仅依据男性的声音就可判断出其体力仍然是个谜。该研究结果发表在英国《皇家学会生物学分会学报》上面。

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