Your mom might be responsible for the way your skin tans, or doesn’t, the size of your boobs and your love or loathing of reading, but it turns out she might also be to blame for your latest breakup.

　　你的母亲可能要对你晒黑皮肤的方式负责，对你胸部的大小，对你是否喜爱阅读负责，但事实证明，你最近分手可能也要怪她。

　　A new study published in PLOS ONE found that things like how many partners you live with and how successful your relationships are might all come down to your mother.

　　发表在《公共科学图书馆.综合》上的一项新研究发现，你和多少伴侣生活在一起，你的人际关系有多成功，这些都可能和你的母亲有关系。

　　Claire Kamp Dush, lead author of the study and associate professor of human sciences at Ohio State University, said: “Our results suggest that mothers may have certain characteristics that make them more or less desirable on the marriage market and better or worse at relationships.”

　　该研究的主要作者、俄亥俄州立大学人文科学副教授克莱尔.坎普.杜什表示:“我们的研究结果表明，母亲们可能具有某些特质，这些特质会让她们把婚姻关系或者人际关系处理得更好或者更差。”

　　Mothers and their biological children were followed for a minimum of 24 years. The study tracked 7,152 people, who were asked questions about marriages and divorces, as well as cohabitations and dissolutions of non-marriage relationships.

　　母亲们和她们的亲生孩子至少被跟踪调查了24年。研究人员对7152人进行了追溯调查，这些人被问及有关婚姻、离婚、同居和非婚姻关系的解除等问题。

　　There has been lots of research on marriage and divorce but very little on non-marriage relationships. This study shed light on dating and living with people as well as marrying them.

　　关于婚姻和离婚的研究很多，但关于非婚姻关系的研究却很少。这项研究为约会、与人生活以及与人结婚提供了线索。

　　Perhaps not surprisingly, the research found that mothers pass both their own problems (which may make them more or less likely to sustain a relationship) and the way they deal with those relationships on to their kids.

　　也许并不奇怪，研究发现母亲们会把自己的问题(这可能会让她们或多或少维持一段关系)和她们处理这些关系的方式传给孩子。

　　“What our results suggest is that mothers may pass on their marriageable characteristics and relationship skills to their children — for better or worse,” Kamp Dush said.

　　坎普.杜什说：“我们的研究结果表明，母亲们可能会把自己的适婚特征和人际关系技巧传给孩子，无论好坏。”

　　“It could be that mothers who have more partners don’t have great relationship skills, or don’t deal with conflict well, or have mental health problems, each of which can undermine relationships and lead to instability. Whatever the exact mechanisms, they may pass these characteristics on to their children, making their children’s relationships less stable.”

　　“可能是有更多伴侣的母亲不擅长处理人际关系，或者不能很好地处理冲突，或者有心理健康问题，这些都可能破坏关系，导致关系不稳定。不管确切的机制是什么，他们可能会把这些特征传递给他们的孩子，使他们孩子的人际关系不那么稳定。”