The sight of a crying girlfriend or wife is never likely to turn a man to thoughts of passion. But it is not just the emotions of an upset partner that dampen the mood in a loving relationship. Female tears contain a chemical that makes her less attractive to the opposite sex, a study has found. While a man might not realise it, his brain sniffs out the signal and his desire is subdued.

电视剧《红楼梦》一经播出，褒贬不一，不管导演李少红的翻拍最终能否还原原著的经典，然而“林妹妹招牌式的楚楚动人”还是时隔N年后再一次出现在现代人眼中，我们不禁问道：现在的男人还爱着楚楚动人、泪眼婆娑的林黛玉吗？经研究，科学家竟然给我们“否定”的答案！研究者发现，恋人在相处过程中，女人的“眼泪攻势”很难再获得男人的怜惜与同情甚至爱情，因为女性在哭的时候，男人体内立刻产生“化学作用”潜意识中会觉得异性的吸引力大大减少，男人的脑中会出现“警报”---还是赶快闪吧，这个女人碰不得！

Researchers arrived at the conclusion after asking six women, selected from 60 volunteers, to make repeat visits to a lab where they cried into a test tube while watching a weepy film. The tears were then trickled back down the women’s faces and a group of men asked to lean close. Salty water was used as substitute tears in a second group of women. The men said that both sets of ‘tears’ smelt the same. But when shown pictures of female faces, those who had sniffed the real tears rated the pictures as less attractive, the journal Science reports.

研究者对60名女性志愿者进行实验，将每一组（6个人）轮流进行实验：将第一组（会哭的）女人聚集起来观看“催人泪下”的电影，然后将第二组（不会哭）女人进入影院也随后观看电影，与前者不同的是，第二组女人的眼泪是“假”的，是实验者用“盐水”滴上去的。这段时间，研究者让一群男士进入影院，让他们“依偎”在女人身边，测试他们对“眼泪女人”的反映！实验结果显示，男人压根分不清“真眼泪”和“假眼泪”，在男士的嗅觉下，两者并无差别。但在测试他们喜欢哪一组女人时，他们竟然都一致觉得“真流泪”的女人吸引力很低，相反，“假流泪”女人更有吸引力些！

To expose the men to the feelings of sadness that had accompanied the women’s tears, the men then also watched a weepy movie. Levels of the male sex hormone testosterone fell in those who had sniffed real tears but not in the men exposed to the fake ones. The researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said the results suggest that weeping helps women ward off unwelcome advances. The chemicals in tears could also help protect against violence by lowering male testosterone levels.

来自以色列的研究员称：“在测试眼泪对男士的效果中，我们发现，女人一旦泪如雨下，男性的睾丸素（男性荷尔蒙的一种）会降低。也就是女人在遇到暴力的时候，哭的力量可以使得男性的宽恕。但是女人要是要是企图用哭来获得爱情，让男人觉得你更加楚楚动人，那就是不可能的了。男人一看到女性哭，顿时觉得女人吸引力降低大大降低，一点都不可爱了！”