英语PK台 第171期:风靡世界的36个魔力提问

 Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part

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I published this article in the "New York Times Modern Love" column in January of this year. "To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This." So the procedure is fairly simple: two strangers take turns asking each other 36 increasingly personal questions and then they stare into each other's eyes without speaking for four minutes.

So here are a couple of sample questions. Number 12: If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be? Number 28: When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself? As you can see, they really do get more personal as they go along.

So when I first came across this study a few years earlier, one detail really stuck out to me, and that was the rumor¹ that two of the participants had gotten married six months later, and they'd invited the entire lab to the ceremony. So I was of course very skeptical² about this process of just manufacturing romantic love, but of course I was intrigued³. And when I got the chance to try this study myself, with someone I knew but not particularly well, I wasn't expecting to fall in love.

1 rumor   

n.谣言，谣传，传说

参考例句：

• The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
• The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。

2 skeptical   

adj.怀疑的，多疑的

参考例句：

• Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
• Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。

3 intrigued   

adj.好奇的，被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式)；激起…的兴趣或好奇心；“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧！
• He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。