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Trend Connections #2 TED Talk: Helen Fisher—The Science of Love and the Future of Women The video is freely available on the Internet: /index.php/talks/view/id/16 Translated by Dr. Jane Lewis, Meg Chen, and the translation team Talk Overview Id like to talk today about the two biggest social trends in the coming century, and perhaps in the next 10,000 years. But I want to start with my work on romantic love, because thats my `most recent work. 我今天想探討的是未來下個世紀、也許是未來一萬年內最大的兩個社會的趨勢。首先，我要說的是浪漫之愛，這是我最新的研究。 What I and my colleagues did was to put 32 people, who were madly in love, into a functional MRI brain scanner: 17 who were madly in love and their love was accepted; and 15 who were madly in love and they had just been dumped. And so I want to tell you about that first, and then go on into where I think love is going. 我跟我的同事正在做的是將三十二位在熱戀中的男女透過磁振造影儀來掃描他們腦部情況。其中十七位熱戀中且他們的愛被接受另雖但 所以我首先要探討研究的發現，接著是愛在社會中會如何發展。 What is romantic love? What tis to love? Shakespeare said. 「愛為何物?」莎士比亞曾說。 I think human beings have been wondering about this question since they sat around their campfires or lay and watched the stars a million years ago. 我認為從一百萬年前，當人類坐在營火邊看星星就已在思考這個問題。 I started out by trying to figure out what romantic love was, by looking at the last 45 years of research on, just the psychological research, and, as it turns out, theres a very specific group of things that happen when you fall in love. 首先我想釐清浪漫之情為何? 根據最近過去這四十五年在心理學方面的研究，那們，我發現當人們陷入熱戀時，有某些特定的反應會發生。 The first thing that happens is, what I call – a person begins to take on, what I call, special meaning. As a truck driver once said to me, he said, the world had a new center, and that center was Mary Anne. 第一件會發生的是，一個在熱戀中的人在他的伴侶上會看到特別之處，就如我所稱“特別意義”。有位卡車司機曾對我說過，「地球有個新的中心，那個中心就是我的愛人。」 George Bernard Shaw said it a little differently. He said, love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another. George Bernard Shaw 有不同見解。他說：「愛情就是對他的愛人跟所有女人相比較時，他會高估他所愛的人。」 Indeed, thats wha