BBC媒体英语:心痛与身痛,孰更痛?

背景：美国国家科学院院刊刚刚发表的一项研究说，情侣分手之后的痛苦是非常伤人的。这项研究得出的结论是：肢体疼痛和伤心之痛的作用是一样的。

You'vebroken up withyour girlfriend or boyfriend, your wife or husband has left you and you feel rejected,dejected, broken-hearted. Well, new research suggests that intense feelings of rejection are ashurtfulas physical pain.

The lead author of the study Ethan Kross said the reason is because the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painfulsensoryexperiences are also activated during intense experiences of social rejection.

The researchers hope theirfindingswill offer newinsight into how the experience of intense sociallossmay lead to various physical painsymptomsanddisorders.

They also confirmed thenotionthe people from different cultures all around the world use the same language, words like "hurt" and "pain", to describe the experience of both physical pain and social rejection.

Glossary 词汇表

to break up with someone （情侣）分手

dejected 感到沮丧的

hurtful 令人感到伤痛的

sensory 感官的

findings 研究结果

insight 对事情的了解

loss 丧失

symptom 症状

disorder 紊乱

notion 概念