時尚雙語:泰坦尼克沉了,英國紳士死了

'Polite' Britons died on Titanic

More British passengers died on the Titanic because they queued politely for lifeboats, researchers believe.

A behavioural economist says data suggests Britons in that era were more inclined to be "gentlemanly" while Americans were more "individualist".

Women with children had a 70% better chance of survival than men in such an environment, he told the BBC.

The Titanic sank during its maiden voyage in 1912 after hitting an iceberg, with the loss of 1,500 lives.

David Savage, from Queensland University of Technology, studied the disaster to look at how people react in life and death situations.

He said that in testimonies from inquiries in America and Britain just after the event, there were a lot of statements from women saying their husbands put them on lifeboats.

They then "went to the back of the boat to have a cigar, to stand around and be chummy, while basically the boat went down".

Mr Savage said: "There was one gentleman who was rather wealthy... who went back downstairs after he put his wife on the [life] boat... put on his back upstairs and smoked... with the idea that if I am going die, I may as well die as a gentleman and well-dressed."

'Peak of society'

The "unsinkable" ocean liner went down in freezing Atlantic waters during its voyage from Southampton to New York. As it sank, the captain, Edward John Smith, shouted: "Be British, boys, be British," according to witnesses.

"The American culture was set up to be a more individualist culture and the British culture was more about the gentlemanly behaviour," Mr Savage says.

"You've got to remember that this is the Edwardian period when to be a gentleman was the peak of society."

Mr Savage also concludes that social norms such as "women and children first" were very strong in British culture and survived in such an environment.

泰坦尼克沉了，英國紳士死了

研究人員認爲，許多英國乘客因爲紳士地排隊等待救生艇而葬身大海。

一個行爲經濟學家聲稱，資料顯示那個時候的英國人更傾向於紳士風度，而美國人則自我得多。他告訴BBC的記者，在那種環境下，婦女和兒童生存的機會比男士多百分之七十。

泰坦尼克號在它1912年的處女航中因撞上冰山而沉沒，1500多人因此喪生。昆士蘭科技大學的大衛.賽維哲(David Savage)研究了在這場災難中人們如何應對生與死的考驗。他說，從災難發生後在美國和英國進行的調查中得到的證據表明，許多婦女的丈夫在危急時刻把她們送上了救生艇，接着就回到船上，鎮定紳士地抽着煙，而這時船正在下沉。

賽維哲說：“有一位很富有的先生，在把他的妻子送上救生艇後，就下樓去穿上他的禮服，然後上樓回到甲板上吸菸，因爲他認爲即使是死，也要穿戴整齊，像一個紳士一樣體面的死去。”

“社會主流”

這艘從南安普敦開往紐約的“永不沉沒”的遠洋航船沉入了冰冷的大西洋海水裏。目擊者稱，當它下沉的時候，愛德華.約翰.史密斯船長(Edward John Smith)向人們大喊“有點英國紳士的樣子，男士們，有點英國紳士的樣子”。

“美國文化是一種更加個人主義的文化而英國文化更加註重紳士的行爲方式”，賽維哲先生指出，“你要知道那是一個紳士文化佔社會主流的愛德華時期。”

賽維哲先生也指出，各種諸如“女士優先”這樣的社會規範在英國文化中根深蒂固，即使在那樣一個災難的環境中也得到了人們的遵守。