時尚雙語:男人比女人更愛煲電話粥？
If you're wondering where the man of the house has got to, he's probably on the phone.
如果你想在家裏找到男人，那麼他很可能在電話機旁邊。
Men have swopped places with women as the family chatterbox, a survey has found. They dominate the house phone as well as constantly chatting on their mobiles.
一項調查發現，男人和女人掉了個位置，他們更喜歡在家裏打電話閒聊。他們霸佔家裏的電話，或者通過手機滔滔不絕。
The average man is on the phone for 32 minutes a day, up from 22 five years ago.
男人平均打電話的時間由五年前的每天通話22分鐘增至瞭如今的32分鐘。
Women, on the other hand, spend a daily average of 26 minutes on the phone, down from 35 in 2002.
與此同時，女人每天打電話的時間從2002年的35分鐘降至26分鐘。
But it's not because they suddenly have less to say. Women appear to prefer to share their gossip using e-mail and text messages, said the study of 3,500 adults.
這份對3500個成年人的調查顯示，女人電話時間縮短並不表示她們突然變得無話可說，而是她們更偏好通過電子郵件和短信的方式來閒聊。
Calling banks or insurance companies, buying tickets and booking restaurant tables were included in the conversations used to calculate the time spent on the phone. Work calls, however, were not.
這份調查不包括涉及工作的電話，但是包括了與銀行或保險公司通話，或是買票和餐館訂座等電話。
Almost three in ten men (29 per cent) said that sport was their favourite topic, followed by 22 per cent who discussed the mysteries of women and 20 per cent the even greater mysteries of money.
將近3/10（29%）的男人表示，運動是他們最喜歡的話題，緊隨其後的話題是神祕的女人（22&）和比女人更撲朔迷離的金錢（20%）。
A third of women (32 per cent) said they chatted most about men. A similar number said what (and what not) to wear was their main topic of conversation. Other top subjects were mutual friends and making plans to socialise.
1/3（32%）的女人表示，她們談論最多的是男人。另有大約1/3的人則在談論穿什麼衣服。其餘的一些熱門話題則與朋友、社交計劃有關。
The survey, carried out by loyalty card company Nectar and the telecommuncations firm Talk Talk. also came up with the talkers of the towns, or rather the regions.
這項由Nectar會員卡公司和Talk Talk電信公司發起的調查，同時吸引了來自不同城市，甚至不同地域的參與者。
Scotland boasts the biggest chatterboxes with 62 per cent of all adults spending more than 30 minutes a day on the phone.
蘇格蘭人閒聊電話的時長居各地之首，62%的成年人每天打電話的時間超過半小時。
Those in the South-West and Wales also tend to be hooked on their phones.
而住在英格蘭西南部和威爾士的居民往往也喜歡煲電話粥。
