to say tonight. And it is my great pleasure to welcome her to Binghamton University and

今晚要說的話。我很高興歡迎她來到賓漢姆頓大學和

to all of you to an evening that promises to be very stimulating. And again, I thank

在此祝願大家參加一個充滿刺激的夜晚。我再次感謝

you for coming.

你的到來。

Good evening, I am delighted to be here, I’m delighted that you’re here. Thank you very

晚上好，我很高興來到這裡，我很高興你在這裡。我很高興你能來，非常感謝你

much Justin Garcia and David Sloan-Wilson for inviting me. You’ve got a really intellectually,

賈斯汀-加西亞和大衛-斯隆-威爾遜的邀請。你有一個真正的智力。

energetic campus, I am really impressed with it.

朝氣蓬勃的校園，給我留下了深刻的印象。

So anyway, I want to tell you about two things tonight. I and my colleagues have put forty-nine

所以無論如何，今晚我想告訴大家兩件事。我和我的同事們已經把49個...

people who are madly in love in to a brain scanner. Seventeen who had just fallen in

人們誰是瘋狂的愛 在一個大腦掃描儀。17個剛剛墜入愛河的人

love, fifteen who had just been rejected in love and seventeen who report that they are

戀，15人剛剛被愛情拒絕，17人表示自己正在。

still in love after an average of twenty-one years of marriage, so that probably why I’m

平均結婚21年還在戀愛中，所以這可能是為什麼我... ...

here. But I also having done that, Match.com the internet dating site, came to me, three

這裡。但我也做了，Match.com的互聯網交友網站，來找我，三。

years ago three and a half years ago and asked me to start a new dating site for them. It

三年半前，讓我為他們建立一個新的交友網站。它

is now called Chemistry.com and five million Americans have taken my questionnaire on Chemistry.com

現在叫Chemistry.com，有500萬美國人接受了我在Chemistry.com上的問卷調查。

and two million in thirty-nine other countries have taken it. And my question was, “Why

而其他39個國家的兩百萬人已經服用了它。而我的問題是，"為什麼

do you fall in love with one person rather than another?” I had spent all these years

你愛上了一個人而不是另一個人嗎？"這些年來，我一直在

trying to figure out what happens in the brain when you fall in love and than my next question

我想知道當你墜入愛河時，大腦中會發生什麼，而不是我的下一個問題。

is, “Why would somebody say we have chemistry?” and than somebody else say “We didn’t

是，"為什麼有人會說我們有化學反應？"而不是別人說 "我們沒

have any chemistry,” is there something about our human chemistry that draws us to

有什麼化學反應"，我們人類的化學反應是否有什麼東西吸引著我們。

some people other than others. So tonight I first want to talk about the brain scanning

有些人比其他的人。所以今晚我首先想說說腦部掃描的問題

and what love is and why it evolved and then go in to the subject that’s at the moment

和什麼是愛情，為什麼它的演變，然後進入主題，是在目前

dearest to my heart, why him, why her.

我最親愛的人，為什麼是他，為什麼是她。

Around the world people love. They sing for love they, they dance for love, they compose

世界各地的人們都在愛。他們為愛而歌，為愛而舞，為愛而作曲。

poems and stories about love, they retell myths and legions about love, they have love

關於愛情的詩歌和故事，他們重述了關於愛情的神話和軍團，他們有愛情

charms, love portions, love magic, they pine for love, they live for love, they kill for

魅力，愛的分量，愛的魔力，他們為愛而思，為愛而生，為愛而殺。

love and they die for love. Anthropologists have now found evidence of romantic love in

愛，他們為愛而死。人類學家現在已經發現了浪漫愛情的證據，在

a hundred and seventy societies and not in one culture in the world where they’ve actually

在170個社會中，沒有一個文化是真正的

looked, have they not found it. So far, no negative evidence.

找過了，他們有沒有發現。到目前為止，還沒有否定的證據。

But in fact, so many people described love differently, that I have come to believe that

但事實上，很多人對愛情的描述不盡相同，以至於我已經相信了。

we have divided love into really three distinguish different brain systems. The sex drive associated

我們把愛情分為真正的三個不同的大腦系統。性慾相關

with testosterone in both men and women, W.H. Arden called an intolerable neural itch, Pablo

與男性和女性的睪丸激素，W.H.阿登稱為難以忍受的神經癢，巴勃羅。

Naruto called it an eternal thirst or an infinite ache, you can feel it not even for a particular

鳴人稱它為永恆的渴求或無盡的痛楚，你可以感受到它甚至不為某個

person, you can feel the sex drive when you are driving along in your car, when you read

的人，你可以感覺到性的驅動力，當你開車在你的車，當你閱讀

a book, when you watch a movie, when you think of something while you are sitting in the

一本書，當你看電影的時候，當你坐著的時候想到一些事情的時候，你就會發現，你在想什麼。

chair, it doesn’t necessarily focus on one particular human being.

椅，它不一定關注某一個人。

The second of the three brain systems is romantic love that focus, the craving, the possessiveness,

三個大腦系統中的第二個是浪漫的愛情，專注、渴望、佔有慾。

I’ll talk more about it in a minute. People call it passionate love, obsessive love, being

我一會兒再講。人們稱它為熱情的愛，執著的愛，被。

in love, infatuation; I think they’re all combinations of the same thing. George Bernard

戀愛、痴情；我認為它們都是同一種東西的組合。喬治-伯納德

Shaw summed up love I think very well he said, “Love consists of overestimating the differences

邵逸夫對愛情的總結我覺得很好，他說："愛情是由高估了的差異組成的

between one woman and another.” And indeed, that’s what we do and I and my colleagues

一個女人和另一個女人之間。"而事實上，這就是我們所做的，我和我的同事們

have now begun to figuring out some of the brain systems that are involved, certainly

現在已經開始弄清楚一些大腦系統，參與，當然

dopamine is and I think norepinephrine gives you the pounding heart, the sweaty palms,

多巴胺是和我認為去甲腎上腺素給你怦然心動，手心出汗。

the stammering, and low levels of serotonin, which is what I think gives you the obsessive

口吃，和低水平的血清素， 這就是我認為給你的強迫症，

thinking. Of all the characteristics of romantic love, I think the most; the core of it is

思考。在所有浪漫愛情的特點中，我認為最；核心的是

that you can’t stop thinking about this person.

你無法停止思考這個人。