托福阅读机经背景材料：男性走进厨

　　Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.

　　牛津大学的一份报告显示，受戈登?拉姆齐和杰米?奥利佛等名厨的激励，如今男性下厨的时间越来越多。

　　The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cookery a more macho image, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality, to mean men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.

　　模范名厨们为烹饪增添了更多男子气概，再加上性别平等问题变得更为普遍，使得与1961年相比，如今男性下厨的时间增加了两倍多。

　　According to research by Prof Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.

　　牛津时代调查研究中心负责人乔纳森?格尔舒尼教授开展的研究表明，如今男性每天下厨的时间为半个多小时，而在1961年仅有12分钟。

　　Prof Gershuny said: "The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of gender equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come."

　　格尔舒尼教授说：“男性下厨是一个更为广泛的社会趋势的一部分。性别平等已有40年的历史，但可能还会有下个40年。”

　　Women, who a generation ago spent a fraction under two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes – a dramatic fall, but they still spend far more time at the hob than men.

　　上一代女性每天花在做饭上的时间不到两小时，而如今仅为一小时零七分钟——虽然时间少了很多，但还是比男性下厨的时间长很多。

　　Some commentators have dubbed the emergence of men in aprons as "Gastrosexuals", who have been inspired to pick up a spatula by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.

　　一些评论家将新涌现出的爱下厨房的男性称为“爱厨男”，这些男性受拉姆齐、奥利佛以及休?弗恩利-惠汀斯托尔、马克?皮埃尔?怀特和基思?弗洛伊德等其他男性名厨成功的激励，开始下厨操刀。