托福閱讀：男性走進廚房

Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.

牛津大學(xué)的一份報告顯示，受戈登•拉姆齊和杰米•奧利佛等名廚的激勵，如今男性下廚的時間越來越多。

The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cookery a more macho image, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality, to mean men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.

模范名廚們?yōu)榕腼冊鎏砹烁�多男子氣概，再加上性別平等問題變得更為普遍，使得與1961年相比，如今男性下廚的時間增加了兩倍多。

According to research by Prof Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.

牛津時代調(diào)查研究中心負(fù)責(zé)人喬納森•格爾舒尼教授開展的研究表明，如今男性每天下廚的時間為半個多小時，而在1961年僅有12分鐘。

Prof Gershuny said: "The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of gender equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come."

格爾舒尼教授說：“男性下廚是一個更為廣泛的社會趨勢的一部分。性別平等已有40年的歷史，但可能還會有下個40年。”

Women, who a generation ago spent a fraction under two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes – a dramatic fall, but they still spend far more time at the hob than men.

上一代女性每天花在做飯上的時間不到兩小時，而如今僅為一小時零七分鐘——雖然時間少了很多，但還是比男性下廚的時間長很多。

Some commentators have dubbed the emergence of men in aprons as "Gastrosexuals", who have been inspired to pick up a spatula by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.

一些評論家將新涌現(xiàn)出的愛下廚房的男性稱為“愛廚男”，這些男性受拉姆齊、奧利佛以及休•弗恩利-惠汀斯托爾、馬克•皮埃爾•懷特和基思•弗洛伊德等其他男性名廚成功的激勵，開始下廚操刀。

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