For example, "marital separation" was third on the U.S. list and eighth on the Chinese; "marriage" ranked seventh with Americans and fifteenth with Chinese; and "marital reconciliation" rated ninth in the U.S. and 26th in the ROC One theory for the differences is that Chinese and Americans hold different expectations of marriage.
例如：「分居」在老美的排行榜上高居第三，老中則排名第八；「結婚」老美排第七、老中排十五；「與配偶言歸於好」，老美排第九、國人的排行為廿六。何以如此呢？有一個說法是：中國人跟美國人對婚姻的期望不同。