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Men hit on hotties despite their own unattractiveness, study /confirm/is.

最新的一项研究证实了人们的一个常识：不管多么差劲的男人都会自认为自己能赢得美女的芳心。

"You're prettier than I am," Seth Rogen's character drunkenly slurs to Katherine Heigl at one point in the 2007 movie "Knocked Up." Now a new study confirms what most of us have known all along: Men, no matter how unattractive, think they’ve got a chance with beautiful women.

在《Knocked Up》的一幕场景中，Seth Rogen扮演的角色醉醺醺的对Katherine Heigl嘟哝：“你比我漂亮！”最新的一项研究证实了人们的一个常识：不管多么差劲的男人都会自认为自己能赢得美女的芳心。

It’s a rule, bartender Karen Brody says: The schlubbier the guy, the more likely he is to persistently pursue a pretty woman.

“这是个规律”，酒保Karen Brody说，“越垃圾的家伙越不停的追求美女。”

Brody — a lithe, slender Woodstown, N.J., bartender who looks at least a decade younger than her 47 years — recalls the time she was being "entertained" by a paunchy trucker with several missing front teeth. As the night wore on, he slumped to one side and eventually toppled off his barstool. When she raced around to make sure he was OK, the plump patron immediately resumed his pick-up patter — from the floor.

Brody——Woodstown, N.J.的一个瘦弱的酒保，外表比她的实际年龄47岁年轻许多——回忆了她被一个大腹便便的、缺门牙的卡车司机“款待”的经历。那天晚上，夜色渐深，那个卡车司机倒在一边，最终从椅子上摔了下来。正当她跑过去看他是否有事时，他突然对她展开了攻势——躺在地上。

Apparently, the pudgy trucker isn't just an aberration, and the come-ons aren't just the after-effects of alcohol. A new study confirms what women say they've known all along: Men, no matter how unattractive, think they’ve got a chance with a runway model.

显然，那个胖司机没什么毛病，他对Brody的勾引也不是因为酒精的作用。最新的一项研究证实了女人共知的一个常识：不管多么差劲的男人都会自认为自己能赢得美女的芳心。

The proof was in the matchmaking Web site , a site where members rate each others' "hotness." The site offered a treasure trove of data: It contained information not only on dating habits of its members, but also on the members’ opinions of their own attractiveness and the "hotness" of potential dates, according to a study published in a recent issue of Psychological Science.

证据就在婚介网站上，在那里，会员可以彼此评价各自的“魅力”。这个网站提供了一组宝贵的数据：根据发表在最近一期《心理科学》上的一项研究的记载，它不仅包含了会员的约会习惯，还有会员对自己的吸引力以及对其潜在约会对象的“魅力”的评价。

Researchers studied ratings and dating information from 16,550 members during a 10-day period in 2005. All members studied were heterosexual, with 75 percent males and 25 percent female.

研究者研究了2005年10天内16550个会员的得分和约会情况。所有被试的性取向均为正常，其中75%为男性，25%为女性。

Using this data, they determined that the physical attractiveness of a potential mate was more important to men than women. And men were less likely than women to think that their own lack of attractiveness — based both on a self assessment and the ratings of others — should stand in the way of a date with someone "hot."

通过这些数据，研究者认为，男性比女性更看重未来伴侣的外表。比起女性来，男性较少考虑这个问题：自身缺乏吸引力——不管是自认为的还是在别人看来——会阻碍自己与有“魅力”的人进行约会。

Maybe men think women have all read "The Frog Prince" and taken it to heart, allowing us to look past an ugly exterior in the search for inner beauty. Or perhaps it’s that men have internalized the messages in the popular media: movies like "Knocked Up," where the slacker hero lands a beautiful babe, or TV shows like "According to Jim," in which a difficult, slobby guy is coupled with a gorgeous wife.

也许男人以为女人都看过《青蛙王子》的故事并铭记在心，于是我们女人可以追寻男人的内在美而忽略男人的丑陋外表。或者，男人内化了大众传媒传递的信息：比如《Knocked Up》这样的电影，一个懒鬼赢得了美女的芳心；比如《According to Jim》这样的电视剧，一个麻烦、糟糕的男人娶到了漂亮的老婆。