奇速英语

A team from Harvard University in the USA organized a research on sportsmen and sportswomen. They studied how they behave to their opponents(对手) after a fight. It looked at the differences between how men and women made up with each other after same-sex sporting events.

The lead author of the research, Professor Joyce Benenson, said the result was that men spend a longer time and try harder to become friends again with their male sporting enemies than women did with their female competitors. The researchers studied recordings of tennis, table tennis, badminton and boxing(拳击) involving(涉及) men and women from 44 countries. They found that men spent a lot more time than women shaking hands and physically hugging.

Professor Benenson said she was surprised by her findings, especially at how women spent so little time making up with their competitors. She said, “What you’ll see is that many times, females brush their fingers against each other. You’re expected by the sport to do something but with women it’s so unfriendly.” This was greatly different from men. Benenson added, “With the males, even with a handshake, you can see the warmth, the tightness(紧绷) of it.” She said, “I expected this would be the least strong in boxing because you try to kill the other person, but it’s the strongest in this sport. There really is this sense of love for your competitor, which is the point I can’t understand.”