Love is just neuroscience? 2019-

crave for 渴求

crave comfort and pleasure 

neuroscience 神经科学

nerve system 

neurotransmitter 神经递质

point to 指向，指的是

Love acts on the brain in the same way addiction does, much like how people crave alcohol and nicotine. 

nicotine 

Come again? 什么？（再说一遍，没听清,something is confusing to you）=pardon=sorry=what?

dopamine 多巴胺

the same brain region that produces dopamine lights up. 

light up激活=stimulate 

Not to mention all that obsessive thinking and separation anxiety. 

obsessive 过度的

be obsessed with= out of control 

repetitive 重复的/ do something repetitively 

bodily reactions, like butterflies in your stomach, weak knees = really nervous/ not settled 

I've got butterflies in my stomach before my interview.  

too afraid to make those decisions, he is just too weak knees 

evolutionary roots 进化的根源

dopamine fix 多巴胺满足

What makes a relationship last?

passion stage 激情阶段

sex drive 性冲动/ impulse 

romantic love is about focusing your mating energy on one person at a time

thought experiment 

mating season 交配季

I'm not sure we can reduce something as complex and rich as love to brain systems. 

reductionist 简化的= reduce it too far 

love is many splendored things 美妙的事情= pretty wonderful and difficult to understand 

share with someone something 

procreate 生育

fix 一剂让人满足的东西= a dose of something (chemical or drug)

chocolate fix/ coffee fix (for guilty pleasure to the thing we love)

academia 学术界

trolley problem 电车难题

bonding with one partner 

mindless show 无聊的show= dull= boring 

it does not make love any less enjoyable

chemical reaction happened as the result of them

we should say it up front 提前说

be linked with something 

so many variables 很多变量

he drops the big question/ he does not waste any time 

Even if the tickets were free, I still could not go to such a mindless show. 

If our ancestors did not get that dopamine fix, then we might not be around today.