Couples should consider sleeping apart for the good of their health and relationship, say experts.
專家表示，為了身心健康和夫妻關系，夫妻可以考慮分床睡覺。

Sleep specialist Dr Neil Stanley told the British Science Festival how bed sharing can cause rows over snoring and duvet-hogging and robs precious sleep.

睡眠專家尼爾·斯坦利博士在英國科學節上說，夫妻同床共枕會因為呼嚕聲、搶被子而驚擾了美夢。

One study found that, on average, couples suffered 50% more sleep disturbances if they shared a bed.
試驗發現，同床共枕的夫妻，睡覺受影響的幾率平均增加了50%。

Dr Stanley, who sleeps separately from his wife, points out that historically we were never meant to share our beds.
已經與自己妻子分床而睡的斯坦利博士指出，從歷史來看，夫妻并沒有同睡一張床的習慣。

He said the modern tradition of the marital bed only began with the industrial revolution, when people moving to overcrowded towns and cities found themselves short of living space.
他說，夫妻婚后睡一張床是工業革命后，隨著人們涌向城市，以及居住空間日漸擁擠后才形成的現代傳統。

Before the Victorian era it was not uncommon for married couples to sleep apart. In ancient Rome, the marital bed was a place for sexual congress but not for sleeping.
在維多利亞時代之前，夫妻婚后分床而睡并不罕見。如果回到古羅馬時代，婚床是夫妻做愛的地方，而不是用來睡覺的。

Dr Stanley, who set up one of Britain's leading sleep laboratories at the University of Surrey, said the people of today should consider doing the same.
斯坦利博士在英國薩里大學設立了一個睡眠實驗室。他表示現代人也應該效仿古人分床而睡的做法。

"It's about what makes you happy. If you've been sleeping together and you both sleep perfectly well, then don't change, but don't be afraid to do something different. "
“怎么做取決于夫妻的感受。如果夫妻同床睡得香甜，那么當然沒有必要分床。但如果在一起睡不好，就不要害怕分床。”

He said poor sleep was linked to depression, heart disease, strokes, divorce, traffic and industrial accidents, yet sleep was largely ignored as an important aspect of health.
斯坦利博士表示，睡眠不好會導致情緒低落、心臟病、中風、離婚、交通意外和勞動事故，而睡眠對健康的重要影響在很大程度上被忽視了。

Dr Robert Meadows, a sociologist at the University of Surrey, said: "People actually feel that they sleep better when they are with a partner but the evidence suggests otherwise."
薩里大學的社會學家羅伯特·麥多士博士稱，人們和配偶同睡時感覺睡得更像，而實際的證據表明情況恰恰相反。

He carried out a study to compare how well couples slept when they shared a bed versus sleeping separately.
他完成了一項夫妻同床誰與分開睡時睡眠質量的對比研究。

Based on 40 couples, he found that when couples share a bed, there is a 50% chance that their slumbering partner will be disturbed as a result.
以40對夫妻為研究對象，他發現夫妻合睡時，睡眠受到影響的幾率達到了50%。

Despite this, couples are reluctant to sleep apart, with only 8% of those in their 40s and 50s sleeping in separate rooms, the British Science Festival heard.
盡管如此，夫妻還是不愿意分床而睡。從英國科學界上獲悉，英國40-50歲的夫妻中分屋睡覺的只占8%。