VOA常速英语2013--美国结婚率“杯具”了

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U.S. Marriage Rates Keep Declining 美国结婚率“杯具”了

If you haven't already picked up on the trend from all the whining¹ on Bravo’s Princesses: Long Island, marriage rates in America are at an all-time low. And the median age at which women do say "I do" is now 27, the highest it's been in a century. That's according to a new report by Bowling² Green State University’s Julissa Cruz, published by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research. [Julissa Cruz, Marriage: More Than a Century of Change]

你是否还淹没在布拉沃的公主们的抱怨潮流中：长岛，在美国的结婚率一达到了历史新低。一定会说“我愿意” 的中龄妇女现在一般在27岁，这是一个世纪以来最高的年龄。信息来源于博林格林州立大学Julissa Cruz的一篇新的报告。发表于国家中心家庭和婚姻研究所。

In the 1920s, 92 women walked down the aisle³ each year per 1,000 single women of marrying age. Today, it's a third that. Marriage rates were expected to plateau in the wake of the baby boom, but so far they just keep dropping.

1920年，每年每1000单身妇女中只有92个妇女结婚了。在今天，只有这个数据的1/3。结婚率被期盼能在婴儿潮时期保持稳定，但是目前它们依旧在下降。

Apparently⁴, many college-educated women are simply putting off getting hitched⁵, and many black women might be foregoing it altogether. Because while every ethnic⁶ group has seen a drop in the proportion of married women since the '50s, it's dipped lowest for black women—just 26 percent of whom are married.

显而易见，许多受过大学教育的妇女无心结婚，许多黑人妇女可能会一起保持单身，因为自从50年代以来，每一个种族妇女结婚人数都有下降。黑人妇女结婚率达到了最低——只有26%的妇女是已婚的

In the U.K. and most of Europe, the average age for women tying the knot is already more than 30. And if Long Island’s reality stars are an indicator⁷, we're soon to follow.

在英国以及欧洲的大部分地区，妇女的平均结婚年龄已经超过了30岁，如果长岛的现象只是个指示器的话，我们也将紧随其后。

—Christopher Intagliata