Women apologize more often than men do, a new study showed.

　　一项最新调查研究表明，女性要比男性更频繁地道歉。

　　But it's not that men are reluctant to admit wrongdoings, the study showed. It's just that they have a higher threshold for what they think warrants reparation. When the researchers looked at the number of apologies relative to the number of offenses the participants perceived they had committed, the researchers saw no differences between the genders.

　　研究显示，并不是男性不愿意道歉，只是他们认为值得道歉的标准应该更高一些。当研究人员把被调查者道歉的次数和他们认为自己冒犯别人的次数放在一起比较，结果发现两性之间不存在差异。

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　　Study researcher Karina Schumann and her colleagues conducted two studies to see if genders do indeed differ in how often they apologize, and if so, why this might be.

　　调查研究者卡莉娜·舒曼表和她的同事们进行两项研究试验，来观察两性是否在道歉的频率上存在差异，如果有，这些差异是因何而起。

　　In one, 33 university students aged 18 to 44 kept an online dairy for 12 days documenting whether they apologized or did something they thought required an apology, even if they didn't actually say they were sorry. They also kept track of how often they felt someone had committed an offensive act against them that warranted an apology.

　　第一个试验要求年龄在18岁到44岁的33名大学生连续12天记录网络日志，在日志里注明那些自己做错了但没有道歉的事情，或者自己没有道歉，但是自认为应该道歉的事情。他们还要跟踪记录多久他们会认为有人对他们做出冒犯的事情，而冒犯者应该为此向他们道歉。