Because romantic love is a dangerous illusion.

因为浪漫的爱情是一种危险的幻想。

Romantic love is an obsession, it possesses you.

爱情萦绕于心，占据着你。

But romantic love can be instant, yes.

但浪漫的爱情可以瞬间出现，是的。

Why is it different with romantic love?

那为什么浪漫爱情就不同呢?

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies.

人类学家在170个社会中发现了爱情存在的证据。

Romantic love is one of the most powerful sensations on Earth.

爱情是世上最有力的感情。

Romantic love is primordial, it's adaptable, and it's eternal.

浪漫的爱情是原始的，它是可适应的并且是永恒的。

A brain region with feelings of romantic love remain active.

大脑中有一个特殊区域保持活跃，那就是对于浪漫爱情的感觉区域。

Musashi clearly wouldn't have endorsed the way we treat romantic love today.

武藏显然不会赞同我们今天对待浪漫爱情的方式。

The second aspect of romantic love is attraction, influenced by a neurotransmitter called dopamine.

浪漫爱情的第二个方面是吸引力，它受到一种叫做多巴胺的神经递质的影响。

If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet.

如果说爱情是有目的，自然科学和心理学上至今却对此都没什么发展。

And in the case of romantic love, it usually involves sexuality and things like that.

而在浪漫爱情中，它通常涉及性行为等类似东西。

And Buddhists don't buy this sacralization of romantic love.

佛教徒不相信这种浪漫爱情的神圣化。

Turn the focus on yourself instead and pour your heart into something else besides romantic love.

把注意力放在自己身上，把你的心投入到浪漫爱情之外的其他事情上。

It is a very deep, genuine attachment, intense feeling of romantic love.

这是一种非常深刻的、真正的依恋，强烈的浪漫爱情的感觉。

Romantic love has no bearing on this process, say these lawyers, who consider prenups to be business agreements.

这些律师认为，婚前契约是一个商业协议，浪漫的爱情与此过程无关。

Helen Fisher is a Biological Anthropologist who studies romantic love and attachment and how it affects the brain.

海伦·费舍尔是一位生物人类学家，她研究的内容就是浪漫的爱情和依恋以及它们对大脑的影响。

In this way, he saw romantic love as an expression — on a smaller scale — of divine love.

因此，他认为浪漫爱情一种（较小的范围内）神爱的表达方式。

That's a good idea. What kind of book does she like? Romantic love stories? Detective stories? Classical novels? Well.

这是个好主意。 她喜欢什么样的书？浪漫的爱情故事？侦探小说？经典名作？唔。

But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine.

但比起可卡因，爱情让它更加活跃——至少你还能从可卡因中回过神来。