TED演講 戀愛中的大腦 精選臺詞 中英對照

1、15.Around the world people love.世界各地的人都有不同的愛情。16.They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love.人們?yōu)閻矍楦璩?人們因愛情起舞, 人們通過詩賦和故事來抒發(fā)愛情。 17.They tell myths and legends about love.人們講述關(guān)于愛情的神話和傳說。18.They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die fo

2、r love. 人們渴望愛情,因愛而生, 人們?yōu)閻壑?甚至為愛而死。19.As Walt Whitman once said, he said,"Oh, I would stake all for you."沃爾特 . 惠特曼曾說過:“ 我愿意為你賭上我的一切! ”20.Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies.人類學(xué)家在 170個社會中發(fā)現(xiàn)了愛情存在的證據(jù)。21.They've never found a society that did not have it.愛

3、情普遍地存在于每一個人類社會。22.But love isn't always a happy experience.但愛情并不總是愉快的經(jīng)歷。23.In one study of college students, they asked a lot of questions about love, but the two that stood out to me the most were, "Have you ever been rejected by somebody who you really loved?"在一項針對大學(xué)生的調(diào)查中, 他們提出了很多關(guān)于愛

4、情的問題, 其中的兩 個特別讓我印象深刻, 一個是 “ 你曾經(jīng)被你真心愛著的人拒絕過嗎? ”24.And the second question was, "Have you ever dumped somebody who really loved you? "而另一個則是 “ 你曾經(jīng)拒絕過真心愛著你的人嗎? ”25.And almost 95 percent of both men and women said yes to both.對于這兩個問題,有 95%的人作出了肯定的答復(fù)。26.Almost nobody gets out of love alive.要活著走

5、出愛情幾乎是不可能的。27.So, before I start telling you about the brain, I want to read for you what I think is the most powerful love poem on Earth.那么,在開始講述關(guān)于大腦的事情前, 我要讀一段 在我看來最富深情的情 詩。28.There's other love poems that are, of course, just as good, but I don't think this one can be surpassed.當(dāng)然,很多情詩都很不

6、錯, 但我認為它們都無法超越這首。29.It was told by an anonymous Kwakutl Indian of southern Alaska to a missionary in 1896, and here it is.在 1896年的南阿拉斯加,一位不知名的夸扣特爾印第安人 把它講述給了一 名傳教士。30.I've never had the opportunity to say it before.這是我第一次當(dāng)眾讀它。31." Fire runs through my body with the pain of loving you, pain

7、runs through my body with the fires of my love for you.“ 愛你之痛如熊熊烈焰穿透我的身體; 對你如火一般的熱戀讓疼痛貫穿我的 身體。32. Pain like a boil about to burst with my love for you, consumed by fire with my love for you, I remember what you said to me.痛楚如沸水,飽含我對你的愛, 愛的火焰將其蒸發(fā)殆盡。 我仍記得你對我 說的話,33. I am thinking of your love for me,

8、I am torn by your love for me.我想著你對我的愛, 它將我的軀體撕裂。34. Pain and more pain, where are you going with my love?疼痛,更多的疼痛, 你要把我的愛帶至何處?35. I am told you will go from here.你對我說,你將從這里出發(fā);36. I am told you will leave me here.你對我說,你將在這兒把我遺棄。37. My body is numb with grief.我因此悲痛,因此失去知覺。38. Remember what I said, my

9、 love.帶上我的只言片語,我的愛人!39. Goodbye, my love, goodbye."再見,吾愛,再見!40.Emily Dickinson once wrote, "Parting is all we need to know of hell."艾米莉 . 狄金森曾寫道, “ 人因離別而品嘗地獄 ”41.How many people have suffered in all the millions of years of human evolution? 在人類百萬余年的進化過程中, 有多少人曾遭受這樣的痛苦?42.How many peop

10、le around the world are dancing with elation at this very minute? 而此時此刻, 世界各地又有多少人在盡情跳舞?43.Romantic love is one of the most powerful sensations on Earth.愛情是世上最有力的感情。55. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you.愛情縈繞于心,占據(jù)著你。56. You lose your sense of self.你失去自我意識,57. You can't stop thinking

11、 about another human being.不能自主地去想他58. Somebody is camping in your head. 他一直盤踞在你腦中。59.As an eighth-century Japanese poet said, "My longing had no time when it ceases." 就如 8世紀的一位日本詩人所說, “ 我的渴求永不停止。 ”60.Wild is love.愛情是狂熱的。61. And the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected.當(dāng)你被

12、拋棄之后,牽掛會更深。66.What a bad deal.這是多么壞的事情啊!67. You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life,當(dāng)你被甩之后, 你會想著要忘掉他, 并繼續(xù)你的正常生活,68. but no, you just love them harder.但事與愿違,你只會更愛他了。69.As the poet Terence, the Roman poet

13、once said, he said, "The less my hope, the hotter my love."就像羅馬詩人特倫斯曾說過的:“ 我的祈求越少,我的愛情便越熾烈。 ” 83.No wonder people suffer around the world and we have so many crimes of passion.難怪世界各地的人們都遭受著痛苦, 難怪我們中這么多人被負心的情人傷害 84. When you've been rejected in love, not only are you engulfed with feeli

14、ngs of romantic love, but you're feeling deep attachment to this individual.當(dāng)你被愛拋棄時, 你不僅被對愛情的渴望吞沒, 而且感到對他深深的依戀。 85. Moreover, this brain circuit for reward is working, and you're feeling intense energy, intense focus, intense motivation and the willingness to risk it all此外,大腦的獎賞回路開始工作, 這使得你感

15、到強烈的精力,強烈的專注, 強烈的干勁,和想要不顧一切地86. to win life's greatest prize.贏得生命中最高獎賞的愿望。87.So, what have I learned from this experiment that I would like to tell the world? 那么,關(guān)于這次實驗, 我又有什么樣的體會要分享給全世界呢? 88.Foremost, I have come to think that romantic love is a drive, a basic mating drive.最重要的一點,我的結(jié)論是 愛情是人類最基本

16、的尋求配對的沖動。89. Not the sex drive - the sex drive gets you out there looking for a whole range of partners.這不是性沖動 性沖動讓你尋找 能夠成為性伴侶的人。90. Romantic love enables you to focus your mating energy on just one at a time, conserve your mating energy, and start the mating process with this single individual.而愛情讓

17、你同時只對一個人產(chǎn)生配對的沖動, 并節(jié)制地使用它, 開始同他 戀愛。91. I think of all the poetry that I've read about romantic love, what sums it up best is something that is said by Plato over 2,000 years ago.我腦海中浮現(xiàn)出讀過的所有關(guān)于愛情的詩篇, 其中最適合概括這一點的是 2000多年前的詩人柏拉圖的一首詩,92.He said, "The god of love lives in a state of need.“ 愛神棲于愛欲

18、之國。93. It is a need. It is an urge.愛是欲求,是沖動,94. It is a homeostatic imbalance.是恒久的失衡。95. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out."如饑似渴,不能熄滅。 ”96.I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderfuladdiction when it's going well, and

19、 a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.我同樣也相信愛情讓人成癮:愛若甜蜜,人們沉溺其中; 愛若苦澀,人們 深陷其中,難以自拔。97.And indeed, it has all of the characteristics of addiction.確然,愛情擁有成癮的所有特征,98. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to

20、take enormous risks to win this person.你專注于他,執(zhí)念于他, 渴望得到他,并扭曲現(xiàn)實, 愿不顧一切以贏得他 的愛。119. You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.就如同在了解一塊巧克力蛋糕中的所有成份后, 我仍然能夠品味 吃蛋糕的 樂趣。126.There are still many questions to b

21、e answered and asked about romantic love. 關(guān)于愛情 還有很多未解開的迷。127.The question that I'm working on right this minute, and I'm only going to say it for a second and then end, is why do you fall in love with one person, rather than another?現(xiàn)在我簡短地說一下 我正研究問題:為什么你會愛上他,而不是別人? 128.I never would have eve

22、n thought to think of this, but M, the internet dating site, came to me three years ago and asked me that question.原本我并沒有想要去思考這個問題, 但在三年前,一個約會網(wǎng)站 M 找到我, 并問了我這個問題。129.And I said, I don't know.我只能說 “ 我不知道 ” 。130.I know what happens in the brain, when you do become in love, but I don't know why

23、you fall in love with one person rather than another.我所知道的是人們戀愛時,大腦中到底發(fā)生了什么, 但我卻不知道 為什么 他就是你命中注定的愛人。131.And so, I've spent the last three years on this.所以,這三年我都在思考這個問題。132. And there's many reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another, that psychologists can tell you.心理學(xué)

24、家告訴我們 一定有很多原因使你愛上他,而不是另一個人。133. And we tend to fall in love with somebody from the same socioeconomic background, the same general level of intelligence, the same general level of good looks,我們會傾向于 在同等的社會、經(jīng)濟背景, 同樣智力水平, 同等的相貌, 134. the same religious values.以及相同的宗教信仰中找到自己的愛人。135. Your childhood certa

25、inly plays a role but nobody knows how.而童年的經(jīng)歷也會影響人們的愛情,但如何作用卻無人知曉。136. And that's about it, that's all they know.就是這些,心理學(xué)家知道的只有這些。137. No, they've never found the way two personalities fit together to make a good relationship.而且,他們不知道在良好的關(guān)系中, 雙方的人格是如何配合的。138.So, it began to occur to me t

26、hat maybe your biology pulls you towards some people rather than another.因此,我開始思考 為什么我們接近這一群人,而不是其他人, 這是不是有 生物上的解釋。150.Faulkner once said, "The past is not dead, it's not even the past."?？思{曾說過:“ 過去未曾消逝, 它們還留在心中。 ”151.Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human br

27、ain.確實是這樣,我們把從過去帶來的大量的行李 堆放在大腦中。154. Women tend to get intimacy differently than men do.女人們傾向于更親昵的言行而不像男人們那樣。155. Women get intimacy from-face to-face talking.女人們從面對面的交談中獲得了親切感,156. We swivel towards each other, we do what we call the "anchoring gaze" and we talk.我們轉(zhuǎn)向?qū)Ψ? 并在交談中注視著對方。157. This is intimacy to women.這就是女性相互理解的方式。158. I