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      2015年職稱英語考試綜合類B級閱讀材料(3)

　　女性在迷你裙上逗留的時間更長

　　根據Debenhams公司的調查，英國女性在40歲之前鐘情于穿超短裙。

　　可就在20年前，只有很少數的女性在33歲以后還敢穿超短裙。Debenhams公司透露，這些表明現代女性對自己身材的信心與日俱增，并在一份聲明中補充到現代女性也很喜歡穿衣打扮，如果這個趨勢繼續(xù)下去的話，那么在下個十年的時間里40歲到50歲的英國女性的衣櫥無疑將被超短裙占據。

　　商店調查在過去6個月購買超短的，36厘米長的裙子的婦女的最新年齡分布時，出現了新的數字。他們的研究結果表明，在新千年開始之際，平均年齡已由36歲上升到40歲。 從1980年的數字顯示，平均起來，當達到33歲時婦女就停止購買迷你裙了――這一數字從60年代中期一直沒有改變。

　　商店注意到，老師相信高密度的健身文化的流行，給女性更加長時間的保持身體健康提供了理據。英國生活獨立的婦女越來越多也是其中一個因素。

　　16歲到19歲之間裙子變得越來越短，從46厘米減少到36厘米，23歲時達到32厘米，達到最短。23歲到27歲迷你裙長度又逐漸增長，增加到37厘米，可能是由于女孩感情第一次穩(wěn)定下來，沒有再去吸引人的必要。商店報道說。

　　然而，由于女孩的第一次感情的破裂，新的關系正在形成，從27歲到34歲迷你裙又突然流行起來。40歲時迷你裙又開始變長，46厘米，稍稍在膝蓋上面是標準的流行模式。從那時起，迷你裙的長度急劇增長，在42歲時又達到膝蓋以下，這是自從離開校門后首次達到膝蓋以下。

　　Women Staying in Mini-Skirts for Longer

　　British women are happy nowadays to wear mini-skirts up until the age of 40, according to research by Debenhams.

　　Just 20 years ago, few women would dare to wear a mini-skirt after the age of 33, the store said. “It shows that women now have an increasing confidence in their bodies and are happy to dress accordingly,” it added in a statement. “If this trend continues, there’s no doubt that, within the next decade, women in their mid 40s and early 50s will rightly regard a mini-skirt as an essential pan of their everyday wardrobe.”

　　The figures emerged when the store examined the latest age profile of women buying short, 36-cm skirts over the past six months. Their results show that it has jumped from an average age of 36-years-old at the start of millennium to 40 today. Figures from 1980 showed that on average women stopped buying minis when they reached 33 years old -- a figure unchanged from the mid-1960s.

　　The store noted that experts believe that the popularity of intensive gym culture, providing women with well toned bodies for longer may be the reason The increasing number of British women living on their own may also be a factor.

　　The Debenhams’ study showed that a modern woman’s love affair with a mini-skin begins at the age of 14 but that she doesn’t buy her first one until the age of 16 Instead, she flouts school roles by rolling up the waistband of the school uniform to give the impression of wearing a mini skirt.

　　Skirts get shorter between the ages of 16 and 19, reducing in size from 46 to 36 cm before reaching their shortest, a mere 32 cm, at the age of 23. Skirt .length increases slightly between the ages of 23 and 27, rising to 37 cm, possibly due to girls being in their first stable relationship, with no desire to attract attention, the store said.

　　However, it found short skirt suddenly zoom in popularity between the ages of 27 and 34, as those early relationships break down, and new relationships are formed. The move into longer skins begins irreversibly at 40 years old, when 46-cm skins, still slightly above the knee are the norm. From then on, skirt length increases dramatically, falling below the knee for the very first time since school days at the age of 42.