Forty percent of US workers have dated an office colleague, with 31 percent of them going on to marriage, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
本周二公布的一项调查显示，美国40%的职场人士都曾与自己的同事约会过，其中31%的人最终走向了婚姻殿堂。

Ten percent work with someone they would like to date and 18 percent have dated a co-worker twice or more at some time in their careers, the office romance survey for online job website showed.
这项为招聘网站开展的办公室恋情调查显示，10%的人表示自己想与某个同事约会，18%的人称自己在职业生涯中曾与同事约会过两次或两次以上。

Those eyeing a co-worker was skewed between the sexes, with 14 percent of men but just 5 percent of women saying they would like to date a colleague.
同时，在这个问题上还存在性别差异，14%的男性表示愿意与同事约会，而仅有5%的女性愿意这么做。

Of those who dated a co-worker in the last year, a third said it was someone with a more senior position in the company. Of those, 42 percent have dated their boss.
在去年与同事约会过的受访者中，三分之一的人称自己的约会对象在公司中的职位比自己高，这其中有42%的人与自己的上司约会。

Nearly three-quarters said they did not have to keep their romance a secret but 7 percent said they had left a job due to an office romance.
近四分之三的人称自己的办公室恋情不用保密，而7%的人则因此而离职。

The survey of 8,038 full-time adult employees was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of between November 12 and December 1, 2008.
这项在线调查由网站委托“哈里斯互动”调查机构开展，共有8038名全职成年雇员参加，调查时间从去年的11月12日持续至12月1日。

The overall results have a sampling error of plus or minus 1.09 percentage points, it said. is owned by Gannett Co, Tribune Co, The McClatchy Co and Microsoft Corp.
调查结果的误差在正负1.09个百分点之间。网站隶属于（美国报业巨头）Gannett Co、Tribune Co、The McClatchy Co和微软集团。

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