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the world people love.
世界各地的人都有不同的爱情。
sing
for
love,
they
dance
for
love,
they
compose
poems
and
stories
about
love.
人们为爱情歌唱，人们因爱情起舞，
人们通过诗赋和故事来抒发爱情。
tell myths and legends about love.
人们讲述关于爱情的神话和传说。
pine for love, they live for love, they kill for
love, and they die for love.
人们渴望爱情，因爱而生，
人们为爱着迷，甚至为爱而死。
Walt Whitman once said, he said,
沃尔特
.
惠特曼曾说过：
“
< br>我愿意为你赌上我的一切！
”
pologists have found evidence of
romantic love in 170 societies.
人类学家在
170
个社会中发现了爱情存在的证据。
've never found a society that did not
have it.
爱情普遍地存在于每一个人类社会。
love isn't always a happy experience.
但爱情并不总是愉快的经历。
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?
在一项针对大学生的调查中，
他们提出了很多关于爱情的问题，
其中的两
个特别让我印象深刻，
一个是
“
你曾经被你真心爱着的人拒绝过吗
？
”
the second
question was,
Have you ever dumped
somebody who really loved
you?
而另一个则是
“
你曾经拒绝过真心爱着你的人吗？
”
almost 95 percent of both men and
women said yes to both.
对于这两个问题，有
95%
的人作出了肯定的答复。
nobody
gets out of love alive.
要活着走出爱情几乎是不可能的。
, 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，在开始讲述关于大脑的事情前，
我要读一段
在我看来最富深情的情
诗。
's other love poems that are, of
course, just as good, but I don't think this one
can be surpassed.
当然，很多情诗都很不错，
但我认为它们都无法超越这首。
was told by an anonymous Kwakutl Indian of
southern Alaska to a missionary in
1896, and here it is.
在
189
6
年的南阿拉斯加，一位不知名的夸扣特尔印第安人
把它讲述给了一
名传教士。
30.I've never had the opportunity to
say it before.
这是我第一次当众读它。
31.
Fire
runs
through
my
body
with
the
pain
of
loving
you,
pain
runs
through
my
body with the fires of my
love for you.
“
爱你之痛如熊熊烈焰穿透我的身体；
对你如火一般的热恋让疼痛贯穿我的
身体。
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，饱含我对你的爱，
爱的火焰将其蒸发殆尽。
我仍记得你对我
说的话，
33.
I am thinking of your
love for me, I am torn by your love for
me.
我想着你对我的爱，
它将我的躯体撕裂。
34.
Pain and more pain, where
are you going with my love?
疼痛，更多的疼痛，
你要把我的爱带至何处？
35.
I am told you will go
from here.
你对我说，你将从这里出发；
36.
I am told you will leave
me here.
你对我说，你将在这儿把我遗弃。
37.
My body is numb with
grief.
我因此悲痛，因此失去知觉。
38.
Remember what I said, my
love.
带上我的只言片语，我的爱人！
39.
Goodbye, my love,
goodbye.
再见，吾爱，再见！
Dickinson once wrote,
艾米莉
.
狄
金森曾写道，
“
人因离别而品尝地狱
”
many people
have suffered in all the millions of years of
human evolution?
在人类百万余年的进化过程中，
有多少人曾遭受这样的痛苦？
many people around the world are dancing with
elation at this very minute?
而此时此刻，
世界各地又有多少人在尽情跳舞？
ic love is one of the most powerful
sensations on Earth.
爱情是世上最有力的感情。
55.
Romantic love is an
obsession. It possesses you.
爱情萦绕于心，占据着你。
56.
You lose your sense of
self.
你失去自我意识，
57.
You can't stop thinking
about another human being.
不能自主地去想他
58.
Somebody is camping in
your head.
——
他一直盘踞在你脑中。
an eighth-century Japanese poet said,
就如<
/p>
8
世纪的一位日本诗人所说，
“
我的渴求永不停止。
”
is love.
爱情是狂热的。
61.
And the obsession can get
worse when you've been rejected.
当你被抛弃之后，牵挂会更深。
a
bad deal.
这是多么坏的事情啊！
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