Ahead of a seminar on European population trends in Tours this week, sociologists and statisticians have come up with a series of figures that prompted the daily paper Libération to headline a report yesterday: "The French woman: at work, seductive and fertile."
本周在图尔市召开了有关欧洲人口趋势的研讨会，在此之前，社会学家和统计学家总结出了一系列的数据，促使解放日报昨天将一份题为《法国女人：干练、性感、生育能力强》的研究报告设为头条。
The paper described French females as "champions of Europe" for producing babies and longevity. Official figures put them on a par with the Irish in terms of fertility, with 1.9 children born to each woman, compared with 1.7 in Britain or 1.4 in America.
报告指出，法国女人在生育能力和寿命发面是欧洲最优质的女人。生育能力方面的官方数据，法国和英国接近。平均每个法国妇女生育1.9个孩子，而英国妇女为1.7个，美国妇女为1.4个。
On life expectation, French women are said to vie with the Spanish, reaching an average age of nearly 84.
在寿命方面，法国妇女的平均寿命达到84岁，可以和西班牙人相媲美。
Commentators and experts anxious for something good to say about the "French model"—shorter working hours, entrenched labour rights and a social security system that critics say France cannot afford—speculate that it has much to do with the supposed supremacy of womanhood.
评论家和专家指出法国妇女的这些优势得益于“法国劳动者模式”——工作时间短、劳动权利明确、社会保障制度稳定等(批评家们称法国并不能承担这些)——而这些也主要和所谓的霸权主义有关系。