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    You're in the job you always wanted and you're doing well, even making more money than your husband.
    But beware（当心）. Women who become the chief breadwinners（养家糊口的人） in their domestic partnerships² are more likely to pay the price with divorce.
    Researchers admit that the reason is unclear, but it may be that male pride is wounded by not being the biggest earner in the household.
    Successful women, for their part, may grow to resent a husband who doesn't appear to be pulling his weight.
    The finding is the result of a 25-year study of more than 2,500 marriages, comes hot on the heels of other research showing that house-husbands are prone³ to affairs.
    With nearly a third of British women earning more than their men, the results could sow doubt in millions of minds.
    The American researchers studied the marriages and income of more than 2,500 women who married for the first time between 1979 and 2002.
    They found that those women who consistently made more money than their husbands were up to 38 per cent more likely to divorce than others.
    Jay Teachman, of Western Washington University, said there could be several reasons behind the statistic⁴.
    For instance, financial independence makes it easier for women to find a way out of an unhappy marriage.
    Dented⁵ egos⁶ - of both sexes - may also play a role.
    Professor Teachman said: 'There may be "wounded pride" on the part of the male that may lead to tension in the relationship. It may also be the case that some women react negatively（消极的） to a mate that does not earn as much as themselves.'
    A sudden increase in hours worked was also linked to marriage break downs, the Journal Of Family Issues reports.
    Examples of the phenomenon include the collapse⁷ of Kate Winslet's marriage to Jim Threapleton, an assistant film director, in 2001, which was blamed on the actress's burgeoning⁸ movie career.
    And this year when singer Charlotte Church separated from her rugby player fiance Gavin Henson friends pointed⁹ out that he earned much less than her.
    For a happy marriage, Professor Teachman recommends a 60:40 split in income, with the husband being the highest earner.
    His findingschime with a recent American study which reported that men who are financially dependent on their other halves are more likely to be unfaithful - and the greater the earning gap the more likely the man is to cheat.
    For instance, house husbands whose wives worked all day were five times more likely to have an affair than those who contributed an equal amount of money to the partnership¹.
    The Cornell University researchers said that low-earning men may use an affair as a way of reasserting their masculinity.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

3 prone   

adj.(to)易于…的，很可能…的；俯卧的

参考例句：

• Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
• He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。

4 statistic   

n.统计量；adj.统计的，统计学的

参考例句：

• Official statistics show real wages declining by 24%.官方统计数字表明实际工资下降了24%。
• There are no reliable statistics for the number of deaths in the battle.关于阵亡人数没有可靠的统计数字。

5 dented   

v.使产生凹痕( dent的过去式和过去分词 )；损害；伤害；挫伤（信心、名誉等）

参考例句：

• The back of the car was badly dented in the collision. 汽车尾部被撞后严重凹陷。
• I'm afraid I've dented the car. 恐怕我把车子撞瘪了一些。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 egos   

自我，自尊，自负( ego的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Their egos are so easily bruised. 他们的自尊心很容易受到伤害。
• The belief in it issues from the puerile egos of inferior men. 这种信仰是下等人幼稚的自私意识中产生的。

7 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

8 burgeoning   

adj.迅速成长的，迅速发展的v.发芽，抽枝( burgeon的现在分词 )；迅速发展；发（芽），抽（枝）

参考例句：

• Our company's business is burgeoning now. 我们公司的业务现在发展很迅速。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These efforts were insufficient to contain the burgeoning crisis. 这些努力不足以抑制迅速扩散的危机。 来自辞典例句

9 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。