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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Beth.
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Head over heels, butterflies in the tummy,
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the apple of my eye.
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In English there are many idioms to describe what it feels like to fall in love.
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Aww, I didn't know you were such a romantic, Neil.
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But do you know what's actually happening in our brains when we fall in love?
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Because I'm sorry to say this,
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Neil, but it's more about brain chemistry than romance,
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specifically hormones – chemical messengers which the body releases into the blood to control our growth,
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mood and, yes, falling in love.
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Thanks for ruining my romantic ideas, Beth.
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And since my dreams are now shattered,
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why don't we spend the rest of this programme
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finding out exactly what is going on inside our bodies and brains when we fall in love.
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And of course, learn some useful new vocabulary too.
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There's no doubt that being in love has the health benefit of reducing stress,
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even lengthening your life.
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But the hormones which the brain releases have an immediate effect as well.
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So, chemically speaking, what happens when lovers look into each other's eyes? Is it...
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A their body temperature increases,
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B their heartbeats harmonise, or C the hairs stand up on the back of their neck?
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Hmm, is it all three?
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No, OK then, I'll guess it's b, their heartbeats harmonise.
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OK, we'll find out if that's correct at the end of the programme.
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According to Helen E Fisher,
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self-help author and anthropologist at Rutgers University,
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there are three aspects of romantic love.
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Here's BBC Ideas to explain more.
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Often lust comes first, but not always.
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For some people who are asexual,
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it may not happen at all.
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But for those who do experience lust,
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it's driven by the hormones oestrogen and testosterone.
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It may feel purely carnal,
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but in fact, it's about the urge to mate and pass on your DNA via offspring.
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Without lust, it's fair to say,
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our species would not survive.
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Helen Fisher thinks the first aspect of love is purely physical – lust.
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The strong feeling of sexual desire for someone.
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Lust is driven by the hormones oestrogen in women and testosterone in men.
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A few people are asexual,
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meaning they don't feel sexual attraction for anyone of any gender.
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Lust is hard-wired into us through our DNA and it drives us to have children.
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Helen thinks it's fair to say that without lust,
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our species would not survive.
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Here, she uses the phrase,
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it's fair to say, to introduce an idea she believes to be true and reasonable.
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Of course, love is not just physical.
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Here's BBC Ideas again to introduce Helen Fisher's second aspect of love – attraction.
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The second aspect of romantic love is attraction,
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influenced by a neurotransmitter called dopamine.
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This is a feel-good substance released in our brain that is involved in driving us towards reward.
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Do something, get a dopamine hit, feel good.
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Eventually dopamine will push us towards repeating that behaviour.
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This is why intense attraction feels like an addiction to another human being.
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Some people get stuck in that loop,
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always chasing the dopamine-soaked excitement of a new relationship.
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This time, the hormone responsible is dopamine,
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a neurotransmitter that rewards our attraction to someone with pleasurable feelings.
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That's why dopamine is called a feel-good substance.
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The adjective feel-good can be used to describe anything causing happy and optimistic feelings about life,
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things like feel-good films or feel-good music.
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Here though, there's a downside.
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The dopamine hit of sexual attraction feels so good,
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we crave it more and more.
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Some people are always chasing the next relationship to get a new hit of pleasure,
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and soon become stuck in a loop – an idiom meaning
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they're unable to break the habit of repeating the same patterns of behaviour over and over again.
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It's fascinating to see the power which hormones have over us.
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But if you're an old-fashioned romantic like Neil, don't despair.
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And speaking as a romantic,
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how about the answer to my question?
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Right, you asked me about the effect on the body when two lovers look deep into each other's eyes.
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I guessed it was that their heartbeats harmonise.
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Which was the correct answer.
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In experiments, looking into the eyes produced hormones causing couples' hearts a couple's hearts to beat in time.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt in this programme,
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starting with the idiom head over heels – to be completely in love with someone.
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Lust is a very strong feeling of sexual desire.
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Someone who is asexual does not feel sexual attraction towards anyone of any gender.
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The phrase it's fair to say is used to introduce a statement you believe to be true and reasonable reasonable.
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The adjective feel-good describes something which makes people feel happy and optimistic. And finally,
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the idiom stuck in a loop describes someone unable to break
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the habit of repeating the same negative patterns of behaviour over and over again.
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Once again, our six minutes are up,
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but remember to join us again next time for more topical discussion and useful vocabulary here at 6 Minute English.
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Goodbye for now.
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Bye.
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为什么通过这个视频练习口语？
在这个视频中，主持人Neil和Beth讨论了爱情背后的科学，让我们不仅能体验到浪漫的氛围，还能了解相关的生物学原理。通过参与此类对话，您可以提高自己的英语口语练习能力，尤其是关于情感和人际关系的词汇和表达。观看这样的内容可以帮助您在真实对话中更自信地表达自己，从而运用所学的词汇和句式。
语法与表达分析
在这段视频中，有几个重要的结构和表达方式可以帮助学习者更好地理解和使用英语：
- 化学的名词用法：视频中提到“hormones – chemical messengers”，用来阐明激素的作用，强调生物学背景的重要性。
- 短语的使用：“head over heels”是一个常见的口语表达，形容对某个人深深迷恋，掌握这样的短语能使您的英语更地道。
- 条件句的应用：句子“Without lust, our species would not survive”展示了条件句的用法，可以帮助学习者理解因果关系的表达方式。
- 引入观点的短语：“it's fair to say”，在此句中用来为观点做铺垫，使论述更具说服力。
常见的发音陷阱
在观看这个视频时，有些词汇可能会让学习者在发音上遇到困难。例如：
- “hormones”：注意中间的音节，要清晰地发出“hor”，并强调“mones”。
- “lust” ：这个词的元音发音较短，常因过于快速而被发音模糊。
- 口音的多样性：由于主持人的不同背景，可能会受到不同口音的影响，这对学习者理解和模仿都是一个锻炼。
通过进行英语影子跟读（shadowspeak）练习，您可以有效地提高英语发音，克服这些发音障碍。在这方面，您可以应用“提高英语发音”的技巧，使您的口语更流利、更自然。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。