流利阅读 2022.10.30

The simple reason why men do less housework, on average, than women
为什么男性做的家务⼀般⽐⼥性少，理由很简单

Men walk into a room and apparently can’t see the dust bunnies gathering on the floor or the piles of laundry stacked up on the couch. It is a common explanation for why men don’t do as much housework as women. This myth lets men off the hook for not doing their fair share of the household cleaning.

当男性⾛进房间时，他们似乎就是看不⻅聚集在地板上的⼀团团灰尘，或者堆在沙发上的⼀叠叠的⾐服。这是男性做家务没有⼥性多的⼀种常⻅解释。这种迷思让男性摆脱了他们在家庭扫除中应承担的义务。

• apparently：adv. 看上去，似乎
• dust bunnies：毛团一样的灰尘，尘兔
• piles of laundry：成堆的衣服
  • laundry：准备洗/洗完的衣服
  • do the laundry：洗衣服
• stacked up：堆叠起来的，被动语态
• couch：可以睡的长沙发，有别于 sofa
• myth：神话，人们普遍认同但却没有根据的事情，迷思
• off the hook：摆脱困境，摆脱麻烦
• fair share：恰当的份额，应得的份额

But a recent study shows that men aren’t dirt-blind. They are simply less severely penalized for not keeping their spaces neat and tidy.

但是近来有⼀项研究表明，男性并⾮对灰尘视⽽不⻅。只是当个⼈空间没有保持有序整洁时，他们受到的严厉责备更少。

• dirt-blind：对灰尘视而不见的
  • color-blind：色盲
  • snow-blind：雪盲
• be severly penalized：被严厉责备

In the study, participants rated photos differently depending on whether they were told that a woman or a man lived there. Notably, respondents held higher standards of cleanliness for women than they did for men.

在这项研究中，参与者对照⽚作出的评价是有差异的，⽽这种差异取决于他们获得的信息——住在照⽚所示区域⾥的⼈是男性还是⼥性。显然，在保持卫⽣⽅⾯，调查对象对⼥性的要求⽐对男性的要求⾼。