Internet 《大爆炸理论》(The Big Bang Theory)：讲述了美国大学工科男生活的美剧

Male engineering graduates have pretty good prospects today; but don`t assume that means that young women are falling over themselves to go out with one.

如今的工科男们一跃成为就业生力军。然而，尽管如此，他们仍无法让众文科女们翘首以待。

The fact is that, at least from the point of view of their female contemporaries, these guys fail to impress. Ask a girl from Tsinghua, Beijing or Huazhong University and it`s more than likely that you`ll get a list of complaints.

笔者采访了部分清华大学、北京科技大学、华中科技大学等男女比例严重失衡的工科类院校中的文科女生发现，她们虽与这些金牌男生近距离相处，却对他们牢骚满腹。

They say that the typical male engineer keeps a messy dorm and can`t bring himself to say more than a few words to a girl. So unappealing are they that Huang Lijiao, journalism major at Hunan, says, "You`d have to be insane to have anything to do with one."

有文科女生称，所谓工科男，就是不出门的时候邋里邋遢、“宅”在一处，出来的时候又普遍羞羞答答的小男生群体。“面对这残酷的现实，除非我们左脑是水，右脑是面粉，摇一摇就成糨糊了，否则他们就甭想落在我们的视网膜上。”湖南大学新闻专业的黄丽娇说。

But most of all - the thing that really annoys the girls - is that they have no idea about romance.

此外，除了气质、品位等“先天条件”，工科男的没有情调、不解风情等“后天指标”也往往达不到文科女心目中的“及格水平”，也成为女生们批评的靶子。

Hygiene issues

为什么你们不爱干净

Hanxue studies at an engineering college. She says that working in the library can be a real problem for female students. Will a girl be able to find a seat further enough away from the hundreds of malodorous young men who hog all the tables?

就读于北京某工科高校的韩雪认为，在图书馆学习对女生而言简直是种折磨。一群男生在图书馆读书，无论你坐多远能很难逃离那股味道。

The stink is worst when women students have to endure public classes with the guys. Hanxue says, "I hate that class. Why can`t the boys shower? You need to take a oxygen mask with you if you want to get through to the end." She adds that that, of course, the smell is worst in the summer months.

“哎，今天又要深入‘猛虎山’上课了，真不想去。他们怎么都不洗澡呢，下次买个口罩算了。”她们学校的公共课堂一般都被称为“猛虎山”，因为男生多，一到夏天，女生怨声载道。

Such dreary dress sense

黑鞋白袜，乱搭的“工科范儿”

At Huazhong University of Science and Technology the ratio of male to female engineers is about 7 to 1. The girls say that if you look out of the window from a high floor of the dormitory building at midday the scene is like something from a black and white movie, but less colorful. Hundreds, thousands of guys, all dressed the same: black and white, or gray.

华中科技大学前身是华中理工大学，理工科男生和女生的比例最夸张的时候是7∶1。每天中午12点，理工科男生像潮水一样从教学楼“哗哗”地涌出来，从楼顶俯视下去，清一色的黑灰。“跟黑白电影里的游行似的。”

One student comments on the dullness of the male uniform: "Black pants and Antas. It looks ridiculous. They`re like extras in a Steven Chow movie."

“最不能让人容忍的是他们的衣着打扮，上面穿一大黑西服，下面穿一安踏鞋。又不是周星驰拍电影，搞这么无厘头。”

Otakus: Joined at the hip.

“宅男们”走不出男生圈

It`s said that at engineering colleges the guys tend to hang about in small groups: That`s about the limit to their socializing and the reason they`re known as "Otakus". According to Wangyi, a civil engineering major at the Dalian Institute of Technology, the male students do everything together. They have class, play basketball, eat midnight snacks with each other; they do nothing on their own, or with a girl.

在工科院校的男生会扎堆生活，一般不参加社团社交活动，被女生们戏称为“宅男”。大连理工大学土木专业的王义介绍，他们一般都是男生一起行动，一起上课、一起打球、一起吃夜宵。他们认识其他专业女生的机会很少。

Practical but distinctly unromantic

“经济实用派”他们不懂你的心

Xiaofang, of Hunan University, was subjected to a kind of informal social survey by one young man she encountered on her way home this summer.

今年暑假回家的旅途中，湖南某高校的女生小方就碰到了这样一次特殊的“社会调查”。

He asked her, very nervously, "I`ve been wondering. Say I wanted to win the heart of a liberal arts girl. How would I go about it?" Amazingly, Xiaofang reports, the guy was communications engineering major.

对小方进行调查的是一个通信工程专业的标准工科男生，弱弱地问：“我想知道如果想和文科女生谈恋爱，我该怎么做才能让她动心？”说完，他羞红了脸。

Xiaofang`s assessment of him can stand for the general feeling of female students toward their male counterparts: "They`re practical but emotionally stupid. No doubt they`re good with money, but when it comes to romance they haven`t got a clue. They don`t even understand that sometimes a girl needs something a little more from a guy than just a daily phone-call."

通过聊天小方发现：“这些工科男生显得实际却木讷，虽然精通生活中各种各样的省钱小窍门，却不明白为什么对于文科女生而言，每日定时打一个电话，远不如节日时的一个神秘小礼物更具吸引力。”