What Keeps a Marriage?
维系婚姻的秘诀是什么?
What keeps a healthy marriage? Love? Money? Children? Or other things?
维系美好婚姻的关键是什么？爱情、金钱、孩子，还是其他因素？
A couple’s age, previous relationships and even whether they smoke or not are factors that influence whether their marriage is going to last, according to a study by researchers from the Australian National University.
澳大利亚国立大学研究人员的最新研究表明,伴侣的年龄、情史,甚至是否吸烟都会影响婚姻能否长久。
The study, entitled "What’s Love Got to Do With It"，tracked nearly 2,500 couples—married or living together-from 2001 to 2007 to identify factors associated with those who remained together compared with those who divorced or separated.
这项名为“爱情的作用究竟有多大”的研究在2001年到2007年间，跟踪记录了近2500对夫妻或同居伴侣的生活,试图找到影响夫妻分分合合的因素。
It found that a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is twice as likely to get divorced, as are husbands who get married before they turn 25.
结果表明,如果丈夫比妻子年龄大9岁或以上，会比结婚时男方不到25岁的离婚机率髙一倍。
Children also influence the longevity of a marriage or relationship, with one-fifth of couples who have kids before marriage—either from a previous relationship or in the same relationship—having separated compared to just nine percent of couples without children bom before marriage.
孩子也会对婚姻或伴侣关系的长久有影响。婚前就有孩子(不管是他们自己的,还是前次婚姻留下来的）的夫妻,有1/5最终都分开了,而婚前没有孩子的夫妻中只有9%最终离异。
Women who want children much more than their partners are also more likely to get a divorce.
如果女方比男方更想要小孩，婚姻解体的可能性也很大。
A couple’s parents also have a role to play in their own relationship, with the study showing some 16 percent of men and women whose parents ever separated or divorced experienced marital separation themselves compared to 10 percent for those whose parents did not separate.
双方父母也会影响夫妻婚姻关系。研究显示,父母曾分居或离婚的夫妻中，约有16%的人的婚姻以失败告终，而如果父母没有经历过这些，夫妻离婚的机率只有10%。
And couples where one partner smokes and the other doesn’t are also more likely to have a relationship that ends in failure.
仅有一方吸烟的伴侣,最终分手的机率也较大。
Not surprisingly, money also plays a role, with up to 16 percent of respondents who indicated they were poor or where the husband—not the wife—was unemployed saying they had sepa-rated, compared with only nine percent of couples with healthy finances.
经济状况当然也会影响到婚姻关系。16%的自称经济窘迫或者丈夫(而不是妻子)失业的受访者称已分居,而在经济状况较好的伴侣当中,这一比例仅为9%。
In a British study of married men and women, the majority of wives—59 percent—said they would divorce immediately if their future economic security was assured.
英国一项对已婚男女的调査表明,多数女性(59%)表示如果以后在经济上能得到保障,她们会马上离婚。
The survey of 2,000 adults revealed that 12 percent would stay in an unhappy relationship just for an easy life.
该项调査共有2000名成年人参加f结果显示，12%的受访者表示,为了过上“安逸”的生活，他们愿意忍受不幸福的婚姻。
Almost a third of those polled were concerned they would be left with absolutely nothing if they walked out on their marriage.
近1/3的受访者担心离婚后会一无所有。
The Pew Research Center survey on marriage and parenting found that children had fallen to eight out of nine on a list of factors that people associate with successful marriages—well behind "sharing household chores"，"good housing"，"adequate income"，a "happy sexual relationship" and "faithfulness".
美国皮尤调査中心一项有关婚姻和育儿的调査发现,在人们列举的与美好婚姻有关的9大因素中，“孩子”下滑至第8位，位居“分担家务”、“住房条件好”、“收人富足”、“性生活愉快”及“忠诚” 几大因素之后。
Chore-sharing was cited as very important by 62 percent of respondents, up from 47 percent in 1990.
62%的受访者认为“分担家务”十分重要，这个数字超过了1990年的47%。
A spokesman for the marriage counseling service~Relate said:“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.”
婚姻咨询服务机构Relate的发言人表示：“对于已婚夫妇而言,一旦支付账单和给孩子做早餐 等家庭琐事成为每天面对的情况,两个人便很容易陷入‘陈规’。”
Also, partners who are on their second or third marriage are 90 percent more likely to separate than spouses who are both in their first marriage.
另外,二婚或三婚夫妻的离婚机率比初婚高出90%。
Factors found to not significantly affect separation risk included the number and age of children bom to a married couple, the wife’s employment status and the number of years the couple had been employed.
对维系婚姻危害不大的因素包括:子女的数量和年龄、妻子的就业状况以及双方工作时间的长短。
There are a lot of tilings we must concern to sustain a happy marririage. Take good care of it; don’t let it go to an end so easy.
维系一段美好婚姻需要考虑的因素太多。细心培养,别让它结束得那么快。