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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've broken 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 as hurtful as 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 painful sensory experiences are also activated during intense experiences of social rejection.

The researchers hope their findings will offer new insight into how the experience of intense social loss may lead to various physical pain symptoms and disorders.

They also confirmed the notion the 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

Questions and Answers

1. Why do scientists think that an emotional pain causes physical pain? 

Because they found out that physical pain and emotional disappointments activate the same area of the brain.

2. How do people usually feel when a romance comes to an end? 

They feel rejected, dejected and broken-hearted.

3. What language do people use when they suffer physical and emotional distress? 

They use words like 'hurt' and 'pain'.

4. True or false? People have five senses. 

True. They are touch, vision, hearing, taste and smell.