Given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year – a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.
鉴于目前的离婚率接近50%，这意味着美国每年有数百万起离婚案例——一种沟通失败的近乎流行病式的危机。
other possible reasons for a high divorce rate in the U.S.
美国高离婚率的其他可能原因
Laughter does 2 short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, 3 heart rate and oxygen consumption.
笑会引起心脏及其血管功能的 2 项短期变化，3 心率和氧气消耗。
Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others – all obviously statistical impossibilities.
社会心理学家已经积累了大量关于他们称之为“高于平均水平效应”或“虚假优越感”的研究，并证明例如，70%的人认为自己在领导力方面高于平均水平，93%的人认为自己在驾驶方面高于平均水平，85%的人认为自己在与他人相处方面高于平均水平——显然这些都是统计上的不可能现象。
Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.
与其让参与者简单地将自己与他人相比评定美貌，他要求他们从一组包含被修改得更吸引人和不那么吸引人的照片中，辨认出自己原始的照片。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。