By James Cowling, BBC News

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背景：美国国家科学院院刊刚刚发表的一项研究说，情侣分手之后的痛苦是非常伤人的。这项研究得出的结论是：肢体疼痛和伤心之痛的作用是一样的。

You've broken up withyour girlfriend or boyfriend, your wife or husband has left you and you feel rejected, dejected, broken-hearted. Well, new research suggests that intense feelings of rejection are as hurtful as physical pain.

The lead author of the study Ethan Kross said the reason is because the same regions of the brain that become active in response to painfulsensory experiences are also activated during intense experiences of social rejection.

The researchers hope their findings will offer new insight into how the experience of intense social loss may lead to various physical pain symptoms and disorders.

They also confirmed the notion the people from different cultures all around the world use the same language, words like 'hurt' and 'pain', to describe the experience of both physical pain and social rejection.

• research [ri´sə:tʃ]   n.&vi.调查；探究；研究   (初中英语单词)
• physical [´fizikəl]   a.物质的；有形的   (初中英语单词)
• intense [in´tens]   a.强烈的；紧张的   (高中英语单词)
• response [ri´spɔns]   n.回答；响应   (高中英语单词)
• painful [´peinfəl]   a.痛(苦)的；费力的   (高中英语单词)
• dejected [di´dʒektid]   a.垂头丧气的   (英语六级单词)
• insight [´insait]   n.洞悉；洞察力；见识   (英语六级单词)