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　　年轻人最爱嫉妒彼此

　　Older women have often been portrayed as green-eyed monsters, envying the young and hankering after their own lost looks.

　　年纪大的女人通常都被描述成爱嫉妒的人，她们嫉妒年轻女子，渴望拥有自己曾经的姣好容貌。

　　But it is actually the young who are the most jealous of each other, envious of their friends' appearances, relationships, and social success, a new study has revealed.

　　It also appears that both men and women are more likely to envy someone who is approximately their own age and of the same gender.

　　The research was carried out by psychology professor Christine Harris and graduate student Nicole Henniger from the University of California, San Diego and is published in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

　　The paper covers two studies: one that surveyed more than 900 people aged 18 to 80 on their own experiences of being envious, and another that asked 800 more in the same age range to remember when they had been the targets of envy.

　　Envy was a common experience. More than three quarters of the participants reported experiencing envy in the last year, with slightly more women (79.4 percent) than men (74.1 percent).

　　But they found that the experience declined with age.

　　Around 80 percent of people younger than 30 reported feeling envious in the last year. However, for those aged 50 and over, that figure went down to 69 percent.

　　Overwhelmingly, people envied others of their own gender.

　　'It surprised us how consistently men envied other men and women, women,' continued Professor Harris.

　　'Even in domains like financial and occupational success, where you can imagine that a woman might envy a man his better pay or status, that wasn't usually the case.'

　　【单词详解】

　　1 portrayed

　　v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画

　　参考例句：

　　Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。

　　The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

　　2 envious

　　adj.嫉妒的，羡慕的

　　参考例句：

　　I don't think I'm envious of your success.我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。

　　She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。

　　3 gender

　　n.(生理上的)性，(名词、代词等的)性

　　参考例句：

　　French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。

　　Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

　　4 psychology

　　n.心理，心理学，心理状态

　　参考例句：

　　She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。

　　He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

　　5 applied

　　adj.应用的;v.应用，适用

　　参考例句：

　　She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。

　　This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

　　6 aged

　　adj.年老的，陈年的

　　参考例句：

　　He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。

　　He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

　　7 domains

　　n.范围( domain的名词复数 );领域;版图;地产

　　参考例句：

　　The theory of thermodynamics links the macroscopic and submicroscopic domains. 热力学把宏观世界同亚微观世界联系起来。 来自辞典例句

　　All three flow domains are indicated by shading. 所有三个流动区域都是用阴影部分表示的。 来自辞典例句

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