Heartache 傷身與傷心的疼痛是一樣的
Heartache 傷身與傷心的疼痛是一樣的
By James Cowling, BBC News
The end of a marriage can be a painful experience
媒體英語會帶大家一起學習 BBC 撰稿人在報道世界大事時常用到的單詞和短語。
背景：美國國家科學院院刊剛剛發表的一項研究說，情侶分手之后的痛苦是非常傷人的。這項研究得出的結論是：肢體疼痛和傷心之痛的作用是一樣的。
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You've broken up with your 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.
