根据一项研究，在美国，超过一半的少女认为她们应该节食，几乎五分之一的少年男孩担心自己的身体和体重。
According to a study, more than half the teenage girls in the USA think they should be on a diet and almost one in five teenage boys are worried about their bodies and their weight.
而如果问题采用轻浮的、“峡谷少女” （指1970年代后期及1980年代初期迁居加利福尼亚圣费尔南多山谷地带的女性青少年, 其特点是富有革新、反抗和自由思考的精神）的口吻，那么学生会在文章中大量使用“like”、“sorta”、“kinda”这种口语化的词汇。
If asked in a flighty, "Valley girl" way, the students punctuated their answers with "like, " "sorta" and "kinda."
但是这样并没有导致荷兰青少年的放荡狂欢和高比率的少女怀孕，少女堕胎或者是青少年性疾病的传播，比起美国人来说，荷兰的这些问题比率要远远低得多。
But rather than resulting in crazed teen orgies and high rates of teen pregnancy, abortion or transmission of STDs, the Dutch have far lower rates of these problems than the U.S..
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