【雙語閱讀】The Line Between Love and Hate

 It often seems a thin line between love and hate, and now scientists think they know why.

人們經(jīng)常會說“愛與恨只在一線間”，現(xiàn)在科學家認為他們找到了其中的原因。

Brain scans of people shown images of individuals they hated revealed a pattern of brain activity that partly occurs in areas also activated by romantic love, Semir Zeki and John Paul Romaya of University College London reported

倫敦大學學院的薩米爾·澤克和約翰·保羅·羅馬亞在研究報告中稱，他們通過人腦掃描發(fā)現(xiàn)，當研究對象看到自己憎恨之人的各種圖像時，大腦對此所進行的特定活動的部分區(qū)域同時也是“愛情激活區(qū)”。

"This linkage' may account for why love and hate are so closely linked to each other in life,”the researchers wrote in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One.

研究人員在《公共科學圖書館》期刊上發(fā)表的研究報告中指出:“這一關聯(lián)或許能說明為什么在彼此的生活中愛恨總是緊密相連。”

"Our results show that there is a unique pattern of activity in the brain in the context of hate."

In their study, the researchers showed 17 men and women pictures of someone the volunteers said they hated along with three familiar, neutral faces.The hated individuals were all former lovers or work rivals, except for one famous politician.

“結果顯示人在產(chǎn)生憎恨情緒時，大腦會出現(xiàn)一種獨特的活動形態(tài)。”

在這項研究過程中，研究人員向一名志愿者展示了他所憎恨的、連同3張熟人的和幾個既不愛也不恨的人照片在內(nèi)的17張男女照片。在所憎惡的人群中，除了一位是政界知名人士外，其他都是這名志愿者過去的戀人或工作上的死對頭。

The brain scans identified a pattern of activity in different areas of the brain the researchers called a "hate circuit" that switched on when people saw faces they despised(2), the researchers said.

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研究人員稱，在對研究對象進行腦部掃描時發(fā)現(xiàn)，當人們看到自己厭惡的面孔時，大腦中的幾個不同區(qū)域會出現(xiàn)某種特定的活動形態(tài)，研究人員將這幾個由“憎恨”連接的腦區(qū)稱為“憎恨電路”。

The so called hate circuit includes structures in the cortex3 and the sub-cortex and represented a pattern distinct from emotions such as fear, threat and danger,Zeki said in a telephone interview

澤克在一次電話采訪中稱，大腦“憎恨電路”包括大腦皮層和下皮層中的結構，它所反映的大腦活動形式與恐懼、威脅和危險等情緒截然不同。

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