情侶間的完美年齡差決定幸福

    The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you， say UK experts.英國專家表示，一樁幸�；橐龅拿卦E在于男方要選擇一位比自己聰明并且年輕五歲以上的女人做老婆。

    The researchers studied interviews of more than 1，500 couples who were married or in a serious relationship. Five years later， they followed up 1，000 of the couples to see which had lasted.研究員們早先對超過1，500對夫妻及情侶進行了采訪。五年之后，他們對1，000對夫妻進行了追蹤采訪，看看哪些堅持到了最后。

    They found that if the wife was five or more years older than her husband， they were more than three times as likely to divorce than if they were the same age. If the age gap is reversed， and the man is older than the woman， the odds of maritalbliss are higher.研究發現，如果妻子比丈夫大五歲甚至五歲以上，那么他們的離婚概率要比同歲的夫妻高出三倍以上。而如果情況剛好相反，即女小男大的話，那么他們成就一樁幸福婚姻的可能性就要大上許多。

    The work is published in the European Journal of Operational Research.這項研究調查刊登在歐洲運籌學雜志上。

    Add in a better education for the woman——Beyonce has her high school diploma， unlike husband Jay-Z——and the chances of lasting happiness improve further.另外，女性是否受過良好教育也決定著婚姻的幸福指數。拿碧昂斯來說，和她的丈夫不同，她擁有高中文憑，這讓他們更有可能擁有持久的幸福生活。

    These pairings are more likely to go the distance， particularly if neither has been divorced in the past， according to the Bath University team. But couples in which one member has been through a divorce in the past are less stable than those in which both members are divorcees.巴斯大學的這個研究小組表示，雙方如果都未曾有過離婚經歷，幸福指數將會相當之高。而對于有過離婚經歷的人來說，如果夫妻中一方曾經離過婚，他們反而沒有雙方均有過離婚經歷的男女更加穩定。

    Dr Emmanuel Fragniere and colleagues do say that men and women choose partners "on the basis of love， physical attraction， similarity of taste， beliefs and attitudes， and shared values."艾瑪紐艾拉。弗拉格涅爾博士和她的同事表示，男女之間選擇伴侶是“建立在愛情、身體吸引、志趣相投、信仰、態度和與可分享價值觀的基礎之上”。

    But they say that using "objective factors" such as age， education and cultural origin "may help reduce divorce".然而，年齡、教育狀況及文化修養等“客觀因素”確實“可能幫助減小離婚的概率”。