[参考译文]金钱并不能为你买到爱情,但是婚姻却可以实实在在地增加你在银行帐户上的存款——而并非简单地把两个人的收入加在一起。据最近出版的《婚姻状况》一书的作者玛吉·加拉格尔和琳达·J·韦特称,结婚可鼓励人们积累财富,甚至促进妇女拓展事业。他们引用了约翰·霍普金斯大学的社会学家郝凌星进行的一项研究,该研究表明已婚夫妇平均拥有26,000美元的财产,而对于那些未婚同居者来说,这 Money does not buy love for you, but marriage can actually increase your deposit in a bank account - not simply adding the income of two people together. According to Margie Gallagher and Linda J. Waite, authors of a recently published book on Marital Status, marriage can encourage people to accumulate wealth and even promote women’s career development. They cited a study by Hao Lingxing, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, which showed that married couples have an average of $26,000 in property, and for unmarried cohabitants, this