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Many a woman has watched in disbelief as their partner inhales their food minutes after sitting down to dinner. 许多女性看到自己的伴侣坐下几分钟便把饭菜统统吞下时都感到不可置信。 Now Korean researchers have discovered why: men and women actually chew differently. 如今，韩国研究人员发现了其中的原因：原来男性和女性咀嚼的方式不同。 Men take larger, more powerful bites - meaning they finish eating more quickly - while women chew each individual mouthful more times - taking longer to finish eating their meal. 男性每一口吃的更多，而且嚼得更有力，这意味着他们吃得会更快；而女性每一口咀嚼的次数更多，因此也就需要更长的时间才能把东西吃完。 The researchers recruited 24 male and 24 female undergraduates from the Semyung University in South Korea, where they are based. 来自韩国世明大学的研究人员从本校的本科生中招募了24名男性和24名女性作为研究对象。 In order to analyze each individual’s chewing pattern, they hooked electrodes up to their jaws and fed them 152g of boiled white rice. 为了分析每位研究对象的咀嚼方式，研究人员把电极挂在受试者的下颌，并让他们每个人都吃下152克的白米饭。 They documented the size of people’s bites, total chewing time per mouthful of food, total number of chews and how long it took the person to eat the entire meal. | 
