西班牙女性最會網上調情 美國倒數第二

Spanish women are the most flirtatious in the world online, according to a survey by a dating website which said the results belie lingering perceptions of a socially conservative country.

found Spanish women are more likely to initiate Internet dating contact with a man than women from any other country in which the site operates.

Badoo, which boasts 80 million registered users across more than 240 countries said it studied 90 million contacts made over a month.

It showed that the average Spanish woman initiates 1.33 contacts with a man per month -- almost double the figure for women in either Britain (0.78) or France (0.69) and more than double that for women in the United States (0.63).

"First the (soccer) World Cup, now this," Badoo marketing director Lloyd Price said in a statement. "Another global win for Spain."

The league table ranking the 20 top countries on the number of contacts with a man initiated per month by the average woman put Poland second, followed by the Dominican Republic, Italy and Argentina. Latin countries (Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese-speaking) occupied eight of the top 10 places.

Men however were still far more likely to initiate contact in Spain and elsewhere.

British women ranked 14th in the list of Badoo's top 20 countries, while US women ranked second-last, just ahead of Ecuador.

John Hooper, British author of a book on modern-day Spain, said the results of the analysis may surprise those who have an outdated notion of a Spanish society which has changed dramatically since dictator Francisco Franco died 35 years ago.

"Until the mid-1970s, the status of women in Spain was lower than in any other European country, except Turkey. Spanish women couldn't open a bank account without their husband's permission," said Hooper, author of "The New Spaniards."

"Now, you have a country where the proportion of women directors on the boards of big companies is greater than in, for example, a northern European country like Belgium."

The survey's top 10:

1. Spain

2. Poland

3. Dominican Republic

4. Italy

5. Argentina

6. Brazil

7. Chile

8. Portugal

9. Canada

10. Venezuela

根據一家約會網站的調查，西班牙女性是全世界最會網上調情的女性。該網站稱，這一結果顛覆了西班牙一直以來在人們心目中的保守印象。

社交網站發現，在有該網站運營的國家中，西班牙女性比其他國家的女性更容易主動和男性在網上聊天。

Badoo網站在240多個國家擁有8000萬註冊用戶。網站稱對一個月內的9000萬組聊天記錄進行了研究。

調查顯示，西班牙女性平均每個月在網上主動和一位男性發起聊天1.33次，幾乎是英國女性（0.78次）和法國女性（0.69次）的兩倍，而且是美國女性（0.63次）的兩倍多。

Badoo網站的銷售主管羅伊德•普萊斯在一項聲明中說：“先是世界盃，現在又是這個。西班牙再次贏得了世界冠軍。”

該榜單列出了平均每月主動同男性聊天次數最多的20個國家的女性，位居榜單第二的是波蘭，隨後是多米尼加共和國、意大利和阿根廷。拉丁語系國家（西班牙語、意大利語或葡萄牙語國家) 佔據了前十名中的八個位置。

儘管如此，不論是在西班牙還是在其它國家，男性網上聊天要比女性主動得多。

英國女性在上榜的前20個國家中排名第14位，而美國女性在該榜單上的排名則是倒數第二，僅領先於厄瓜多爾。

一部關於現代西班牙的書的英國作家約翰•胡珀說，分析得出的這些結果可能會使那些對西班牙社會仍持有陳舊觀念的人感到吃驚。自從西班牙獨裁者弗朗西斯科•佛朗哥在35年前去世後，西班牙社會已經發生了巨大的變化。

這位《新西班牙人》的作者說道：“直到20世紀70年代中期，西班牙女性的地位還比除土耳其以外的其它任何歐洲國家女性的地位都要低。當時，西班牙女性還不能在未經丈夫許可的情況下開立銀行賬戶。”

“在今天的西班牙，女性在許多大公司的董事會中所佔比例已經超越了像比利時這樣的北歐國家。”

調查結果前十名：

1.西班牙

2.波蘭

3.多米尼加共和國

4.意大利

5.阿根廷

6.巴西

7.智利

8.葡萄牙

9.加拿大

10.委內瑞拉

Vocabulary:

belie: to show that something cannot be true or correct 顯示（某事）不正確；證明（某事）錯誤

boast: to have something that is impressive and that you can be proud of 有（值得自豪的東西）

Francisco Franco: 弗朗西斯科•佛朗哥，法西斯主義獨裁者，1936年領導發動了對西班牙共和國的叛亂，宣佈自己爲國家元首和叛軍最高統帥。第二次世界大戰結束後，佛朗哥在國內仍推行其恐怖統治，把世界上最後一個法西斯獨裁政權維持了近40年。