Ideal woman: Lauren Goodger boasts all three of the top characteristics named by British men as making up their perfect woman.

劳伦·古杰综合了所有完美特质，被真人秀“埃塞克斯是唯一的生活方式”评为全国理想女性形象。

The popular saying would have us believe that gentlemen prefer blondes. But while the old adage¹ may trip off the tongue, according to new findings, it no longer holds weight.

流行的说法让我们相信男士们更钟爱金发女郎。尽管这句老话脍炙人口，但新研究发现，它已经不再有分量。

A study found that gentlemen, in fact, overwhelmingly prefer brunettes. The 2,000 men were polled by social network site Badoo to find out the features they find most attractive in the opposite sex..

一项研究发现，事实上大多数男士更心仪深色头发的女子。社交网站Badoo调查了2000名男性，找出他们觉得异性最吸引人的特征。

Far from men finding blondes the most sexually attractive, the study found that more than 60 percent said they preferred raven-haired beauties over their blonde counterparts.

研究并未发现男性认为金发女郎最性感，相反却发现超过6成男性说相较金发女郎，他们更喜欢黑发美女。

A third of all those polled - 33.1 percent - said they find brown hair the most attractive, while 28.6 said they liked black - making up a total of 59.7 percent over all preferring dark-haired girls.

三分之一（33.1%）的受访者说他们觉得褐发女子最有魅力，而28.6%的人说他们喜欢黑发——加起来有59.7%的人更喜欢深色头发的女子。

Those gentlemen who indeed do prefer blondes made up just 29.5 percent of the vote, while redheads came in as the least popular with men, taking just 8.8 percent of the vote.

而那些钟爱金发女郎的男士仅仅占到29.5%，红发女子最不受欢迎，以8.8%的得票率垫底。

There was also excellent news for women shackledto a life of constant dieting by the misguided notion that men prefer women with a model-like physique.

有些女性被男人喜欢模特般身材女人的观念误导，从而饱受节食减肥之苦，接下来她们将看到好消息。