TED中英双语演讲稿Why we love, why we cheat.pdfVIP

Why we love, why we cheat Helen Fisher 2006-09-06 /talks/helen_fisher_why_we_love_why_we_cheat Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 Id like to talk today about the two biggest social trends 我今天要讲俩个下世纪的大趋势 in the coming century, and perhaps in the next 10,000 years. 也很有可能是未来10,000年的趋势 But I want to start with my work on romantic love, 但是，我想首先从我对爱情的研究讲起 because thats my most recent work. 因为这是我最近的工作。 What I and my colleagues did was put 32 people, who were madly in love, 我和我的同事对32个深陷爱情中的人 into a functional MRI brain scanner. 进行了功能性核磁共振大脑扫描 17 who were madly in love and their love was accepted; 这些人中的17个人获取了异性的芳心 and 15 who were madly in love and they had just been dumped. 其他的15个人则刚刚被甩 And so I want to tell you about that first, 所以我想先讲一下这个实验 and then go on into where I think love is going. 然后是我对爱情的理解 (Laughter) What tis to love? Shakespeare said. 莎士比亚曾经问道：“爱情是什么？” I think our ancestors -- I think human beings have been wondering about this question 我想我们的祖先对这个问题的困惑 since they sat around their campfires or lay and watched the stars a million years ago. 从一百万年前他们围坐在篝火边或者躺着看星星时就开始了 I started out by trying to figure out what romantic love was 为了找到浪漫爱情的内涵 by looking at the last 45 years of the psychological research 我翻阅了45年来心理学方面的研究成果 and as it turns out, theres a very specific group of things that happen when you fall in love. 发现当人们陷入爱情的时候会发生一些特殊的现象 The first thing that happens is, 首先会发生的是 a person begins to take on what I call, special meaning. 另一个人开始被赋予了“特殊意义” As a truck driver once said to me, 就像一个卡车司机曾经对我说 The world had a new center, and that center was Mary Anne. 我的世界有了一个新的中心，那就是Mary Anne George Bernard Shaw said it differently. 而萧伯纳用不同的方式表达了同样的意思 Love consists of overestimating the differences 他说，爱情中的人会夸大一个女人和另外一个女人的差别 between one woman and another. And indeed, thats what we do. (Laughter) 而事实也确实是这样的