趣味双语：面对丑男靓女大脑作何反应

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　　Neuroscientists have discovered that eye-to-eye contact unleashes a burst of activity in the reward center of the brain.

　　神经学科学家发现目光的交流可以引起大脑的反应中枢产生一系列的反应。

　　Romantic novelists rarely fail to include in their oeuvre that special moment when two strangers look into each other's eyes across a crowded room and feel the tingle of desire.

　　浪漫主义小说家大多善于在作品中描写这样的场面：在一间拥挤的房间里，陌生男女随着目光的交汇，怦然心动。

　　The Barbara Cartland school of writing has now been validated by science, for experts have discovered that eye-to-eye contact in fact unleashes a burst of activity in the reward center of the brain.

　　被称为英国浪漫主义小说女王的巴巴拉·卡特兰学派作品现在已经被科学证实是符合事实的，因为专家们发现目光交流可以引起大脑反应中枢产生一系列的反应。

　　Neuroscientists at University College London asked eight female and eight male volunteers to look at photos of the faces of 40 different people who were either looking at the camera or gazing to one side.

　　在一项实验中，伦敦大学的神经学科学家分别让8名男志愿者和8名女志愿者观察40个不同人的照片，照片上的人或者是眼睛盯着镜头或者是眼睛盯着一侧。

　　While the volunteers looked at the pictures, they were given a scan with functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures increased blood flows to the various parts of the brain and thus provides a "map" of cerebral activity.

　　在这些实验者看照片的时候，科学家用一种功能磁性共振成影仪器对他们大脑不同部位的血流量进行测量，得出了大脑活动的图样。

　　The guinea pigs were then asked to rate the attractiveness of each face, and their score was matched against the scan.

　　然后，科学家让实验者给照片上每个人的容貌打分，分数的高低和大脑活动图是相匹配的。