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　　Men Are Better Drivers Than Women

　　Women are likely to be the worst drivers, a new study has shown。

　　一项新研究结果显示：女性更可能成为失败的驾驶者。

　　Research has revealed that women perform poorly in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness when compared to men。

　　研究显示，女性在寻路和空间感认知方面的表现要比男性差。

　　Psychologists Queen Mary, University of London, who conducted the study, believe the findings mean driving in a strange environment would be more difficult for women than for male motorists。

　　主持这项研究的伦敦大学心理学家奎恩· 玛丽认为该发现说明：在陌生环境里开车的女性会比男性遇到更多的困难。

　　Women tend to rely on local landmarks to get around, and are also slower to take in spatial information。

　　女性开车更趋向于依赖指示牌，而且她们在接受方向信息方面速度更慢。

　　Although women are more successful in tests requiring them to remember the position of objects, men consistently do better in tasks requiring navigation and uncovering hidden objects。

　　尽管女性在记住目标的位置方面表现得更好，男人还是一如既往地在寻路和发现隐藏物的测试中有出色的表现。

　　Women are going to take a lot longer to reach their destination, making more errors, taking wrong turns etc. They need more rich local landmarks。

　　女人到达目的地会花费更多时间，犯更多错误以及转错弯等等。她们需要更多的路面指示牌。

　　Women Are Better Drivers Than Men

　　Men commit nine times as many motoring offences as women. Home Office figures show that the vast majority dealt with by courts for every type of traffic offence are male。

　　男性发生违章驾驶的几率是女性的9倍。英国内政部的统计数字显示：在法院审理的每一类交通违章案件中占绝大多数的都是男性。

　　The disparity between the sexes is greatest for the most serious offences, with men guilty of 97 per cent of dangerous driving offences and 94 per cent for causing death or bodily harm。

　　在最严重的交通违事故中，性别差异体现的最为明显。在危险驾驶违章中，男性占到了97%，94%导致死亡或者身体伤害。

　　Women's speeding offences have risen by four percentage points in the past five years yet still constitute only 17 per cent of the total. Women are far less likely to have high-speed collisions resulting in death。