美文阅读 (477)我就如此无足轻重?

Am I That Easy to Forget? 我就如此无足轻重? They say you found somebody new 有人说你有了新目标 But that won’t stop my loving you 但这不会减少我对你的爱 I just can’t let you walk away 我只是不愿看着你这样走开 Forget the love I had for you 这样忘记我对你的爱 Guess I could find somebody too 设想我也可以找其他人 But I do want no one but you 可是我除了你谁也不想拥有 ...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(4)

and if you think about the little kid who sits on your lap 如果你想像一下,有个小孩坐在你大腿上 and who is cozily nested here and very secure and comfortable, 他舒服地坐在那里,既安全又舒适 and at some point all of us need to go out into the world 而在某种程度上,我们每个人都需要走出去 to discover and to explore. 去发现、去探索. That's the beginning of desire, 这就是性欲...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(2)

In love, we want to have, we want to know the beloved. 在爱情中,我们想要拥有,我们想要了解我们的爱人 We want to minimize the distance. We want to contract that gap. 我们想腻在一起,想跨越阻碍 We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness. 我们想调和不安的情绪,我们想亲密无间。 But in desire, we tend to not really want to go back to the places we've already gone....

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TED演讲之什么是爱:恋爱中的大脑(4)

And we tend to fall in love with somebody 我们会倾向于 from the same socioeconomic background, 在同等的社会、经济背景, the same general level of intelligence, 同样智力水平, the same general level of good looks, 同等的相貌, the same religious values. 以及相同的宗教信仰中找到自己的爱人。 Your childhood certainly plays a role, but nobody knows how. 而童年的经历也会影响人们的...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(3)

So knowing that there was superficial data 既然公式配对, that was being used to match me up with other people, 用的是肤浅信息 I decided instead to ask my own questions. 我决定,自己问问题 What was every single possible thing 我要找的,另一半 that I could think of that I was looking for in a mate? 需要具备,哪些条件呢? So I started writing and writing and writing, 我开始写...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(2)

So I just copied and pasted from my resume. 所以我直接把简历,复制粘贴上去 So in the descriptive part up top, 上面,描述部分 I said that I was an award-winning journalist 我说我是,获奖记者 and a future thinker. 和未来思考者 When I was asked about fun activities and 让我描述兴趣爱好和理想人选 my ideal date, I said monetization 我填了,赚钱 and fluency in Japanese. 和日语流利...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(1)

So my name is Amy Webb, 我的名字呢,叫艾米·韦伯 and a few years ago I found myself at the end 几年前,我发现自己走到 of yet another fantastic relationship 又一段美好恋情的尽头 that came burning down in a spectacular fashion. 一切绚丽消逝 And I thought, you know, what's wrong with me? 你说我,到底怎么了? I don't understand why this keeps happening. 真不懂,为什么每次...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:玩转婚恋网(4)

Well, one month later, 一个月,之后 I had a lot of data, and I was able to do another analysis. 我收集了大量数据,足够再分析一回 And as it turns out, content matters a lot. 结果发现,内容很重要 So smart people tend to write a lot — 聪明的人,往往写很多 — — 3,000, 4,000, 3、4千 5,000 words about themselves, 甚至5千字,自我介绍 which may all be very, very interesting. 也...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:恋爱中的大脑(3)

I would also like to tell the world that animals love. 我还想分享一下关于动物爱情的故事。 There's not an animal on this planet 世界上任何一种动物 that will copulate with anything that comes along. 都不会饥不择食地寻找活物进行交配。 Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. 太老的、太年轻的、太脏的或是太蠢笨的,它们都不会选择。 Unless you'...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(3)

We are the only ones who have an erotic life, 人类是唯一过性生活的物种, which means that it's sexuality transformed by the human imagination. 所谓性生活完全是人类想象出来的东西 We are the only ones who can make love for hours, 人类也是唯一能持续几个小时做爱 have a blissful time, multiple orgasms, 有幸福时光,有多次高潮 and touch nobody, just because we can imagine it. ...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:探索性商的奥秘(1)

So, why does good sex so often fade, 为何性爱的激情那么容易褪色? even for couples who continue to love each other as much as ever? 就算是那些爱得如胶似漆的夫妇也无一例外。 And why does good intimacy not guarantee good sex, 为何亲密的爱情也无法维持激情的色彩呢? contrary to popular belief? 这和我们普遍对性生活与爱情的关系的认知相违背。 Or, the next question would be, 或者说...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(1)

You all know this story. 你们都知道这个故事. In the summer of 1950, 在1950年的夏天, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, 美籍意大利心理学家 and atomic-pile builder, 和原子堆创造者 went to lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory 在Los Alamos国家实验室和一些同事们共进午餐, and joined some colleagues there, and asked them a question: 问他们一些问题: "...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:爱,本无条件(4)

And a lot of the time the question of parenthood is, 父母常常面对的问题是 what do we validate in our children, 孩子在哪些方面值得肯定 and what do we cure in them? 哪些方面需要治愈? Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said, 有名的自闭症专家,吉姆·辛克莱说, "When parents say 'I wish my child did not have autism,' "当父母说 '我希望我的孩子没有自闭...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:人类性进化的启示(1)

I'm going to go off script and make Chris quite nervous here 我打算不按预定的来,这让克里斯很紧张 by making this audience participation. 我打算让观众参与互动 All right. Are you with me? Yeah. Yeah. All right. 懂我的意思吧,懂。很好 So what I'd like to do is have you raise your hand 我要你举手 if you've ever heard a heterosexual couple having sex. 如果你听到过异性...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(2)

Encounter one: Ocean City, New Jersey, 1980. 遭遇一: 1980年,新泽西的欧欣城. This was the summer when the special edition of 那是个夏天,正好赶上《第三类接触》的 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released. 特别版发布. And I went on vacation with my parents to the Jersey shore. 我和父母一起去新泽西的滨海度假. Within 12 hours, I was horribly sunburned, 我在12个...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:给陌生人的情书

I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason 上大学时,我是唯一一个需要 to go to the P.O. box at the end of the day, 在一天结束的时候去开邮箱的人, and that was mainly because my mother has never believed 主要是因为我妈妈从不信赖 in email, in Facebook, in texting or cell phones in general. 电子邮件、社交网站、短信,甚至电话。 And so while other kids were BBM-ing th...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:漫谈时光流逝(5)

Close encounter four: the Algarve, 遭遇四:阿尔加瓦 Portugal, 1991. 葡萄牙,1991. Some years later, I and this woman — 许多年过后,我和这个女人– we'll call her "Catherine Fletcher" — 我们将称她为“Catherine Fletcher”- went traveling through the south of Portugal together. 我们穿越葡萄牙南部去旅行. We stayed in old, crumbling, walled cities, 我们住...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:性与感性的故事(1)

So when I was in Morocco, 我在摩洛哥的时候, in Casablanca, not so long ago, 不久前,在卡萨布兰卡, I met a young unmarried mother called Faiza. 我遇到一个名叫法伊扎(Faiza)的年轻未婚妈妈。 Faiza showed me photos of her infant son 法伊扎给我看了她儿子婴儿时期的照片 and she told me the story of his conception, pregnancy, and delivery. 并且告诉了我她怀孕、妊娠、分娩的故事。 I...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:互联网怎样使人们变得亲密(1)

I believe that there are new, hidden tensions 我相信,有新的,隐藏的紧张关系 that are actually happening between people and institutions — 发生在人们与制度之间, institutions that are the institutions that people 在人们日常生活中 inhabit in their daily life: 的制度如: schools, hospitals, workplaces, 学校、医院、工作场所、 factories, offices, etc. 工厂、办公室等等。 An...

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TED演讲之什么是爱:互联网怎样使人们变得亲密(2)

So, think of the three settings I've talked to you about: 那么想想这3个我所谈到的背景: factory, migration, office. 工厂,移民,办公室。 But it could be in a school, it could be an administration, 但这也可能在学校,在政府, it could be a hospital. 也可能在医院发生。 Three settings that, if we just step back 15 years, 这3种背景下,如果我们只追随到15年前, if you just thin...

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