原标题：【为什么女人爱购物】英孚口袋英语

Why do women tend to love shopping so much? And why do men often find it so boring?

为什么女人那么爱购物？为什么男人觉得购物那么无聊？

It’s one of the oldest stereotypes, but it’s also probably one of the most accurate: women love to shop. Well, not all of us love it, but many of us do. Men, on the other hand, don’t seem generally all that excited by the activity.

这是最古老的思维定势之一，但也可能是最准确的思维定势之一：女人爱购物。好吧，不是所有女人都爱购物，但很多女人都爱购物。而男人则普遍表现出对购物提不起兴趣。

The answer as to why women tend to love to shop may trace back hundreds of thousands of years ago to early human history. Until around 8000 BCE, we all lived as hunter-gatherers. We women were the “gatherer” half of that dynamic duo. Men would go out and hunt down wild animals, while women would forage for wild fruits, vegetables, berries, nuts, and seeds.

为什么女人更爱购物？这个问题可以追溯到千百年前的早期人类历史。直到公元前8000年，人类都是以“狩猎-采集”为生的。女人正好是这个组合中的采集者。男人外出狩猎野生动物，而女人则搜寻各种野生水果、蔬菜、莓果、坚果和种子。

To hold up their end of the deal, men would spot their prey and go in for the kill quickly, getting out as soon as they could so that they could carry back their catch before dark. Remind you of anything? It’s a bit like the smash-and-grab technique most men demonstrate today in clothing stores: guys tend to know what they want, zoom in on it, and buy it quickly.

为了完成狩猎的任务，男人发现猎物后喜欢快速猎杀，然后尽可能快地离开现场，这样他们就能在天黑前带着猎物回到家。这一场景是不是很熟？是不是有点像今天大多数男人买衣服的方法——他们往往知道自己想要什么，聚焦想买的东西，然后快速买单离开，整个过程快得像洗劫商店。

Women, on the other hand, would move from bush to bush, inspecting all of the different berries and fruits to make sure they chose the best ones to take back for their families. It’s not too dissimilar to the way we tend to paw every item of clothing in a store before deciding that none of it is “quite right” and moving on to find the item that’s the best quality or deal.

而女人呢，她们会从一棵树丛走到另一棵树丛，看遍所有种类的莓果、水果，然后选出最好的果子带回家。这和今天女人逛商店也没有差太远，她们总是摸遍每一件衣服后才得出结论这家没有一件是“我的衣服”，然后继续去另一家寻找质量最好或价格最好的东东。

Men also tend to prefer shopping by themselves, whereas women — when the time permits — often like to shop with other women. This pattern aligns with the hunter-gatherer theory: Although hunters did sometimes go out together, the activity wasn’t a particularly social one, as they had to stay very quiet to avoid frightening off their prospective catch. Women, on the other hand, probably gathered food alongside other women from their tribe, and had a nice chat at the same time. Much as we do today when flicking through the racks.

而且，男人比较喜欢自己购物，只要时间允许女人总是喜欢拉上女性同伴去购物。这个模式也和狩猎-采集理论相符：虽然男人有时会一起出去狩猎，但狩猎本身并不是一个特别适合社交的活动，因为他们需要保持相当的安静，避免吓到潜在的猎物。而女人这一边，她们可以和同部落的其他女人一起去采集食物，顺便聊聊天也挺好的。这就和今天女人结伴逛商店差不多嘛。

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