How to Make anyone Fall in Love

“我不明白。我美丽、聪明、敏感，而且事业有成，为什么他（或她）却不爱我呢？为什么我总是找不到爱情？”有多少次，你用双拳捶打着枕头，向自己发出这样的疑问？
“I don’t get it. I’m attractive, smart, sensitive, accomplished. Why doesn’t he or she flflip for me? Why can’t I fifind love?” How many times have you beat your fifists on the pillow asking yourself this question?

你打开这本书，心中半信半疑，但同时也带着一丝希望，希望找到一个方法将自己的个人问题一举解决。你看着本章的标题：如何让任何人爱上你。
You open this book skeptically, yet harboring hope, for the solution. You read the title: How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You

“这承诺真是好大的口气。”你说道。没错，这的确是个很大的承诺，但它确实管用。如果你愿意根据书中讲述的科学道理制定一个合理的计划，一定能够如愿俘获意中人的芳心。
“That’s a mighty big promise,” you say. Indeed, it is. But the promise of this book is yours if you are willing to follow a scientififically sound plan to capture the heart of a Potential Love Partner.

古往今来，每个时代都有无数人为爱情而心碎，为什么现在我们忽然敢宣称找到了让任何人爱上你的秘方？因为，经过数百年的抗拒，科学家们开始探索并终于揭开了蒙在浪漫爱情上的面纱，包括：爱情到底是什么？什么东西能够引发爱情？什么东西能够葬送爱情？什么东西能让爱情天长地久？
Why, when history is strewn with broken hearts, do we now claim the means to make someone fall in love with us? Because, after centuries of resistance, science is fifinally unraveling what romantic love actually is, what triggers it, what kills it, and what makes it last.

正如远古部落的人们认为日食现象是某种神秘巫术一样，我们也常常以为爱情充满了无法解释的魔力。在很多时候，尤其是在爱情刚刚发生的迷狂瞬间，当我们想在大街上随便拦住一个陌生人并大声告诉他“我恋爱了”的时候，我们常常认为爱情充满魔力。但是，当人类社会进入21世纪，我们越来越发现，爱情的发生是化学、生物学和心理学等多种因素（嗯，也许有一点点的神秘魔术）共同作用的结果，不仅可以严格定义，而且可以精确计算。
Just as ancient tribesmen saw an eclipse and thought it was black magic, we looked at love and thought it was enchantment.Sometimes, especially during those fifirst blissful moments when we want to stop strangers on the street and cry out, “I’m in love!” it may feel like enchantment, but, as we enter the 21st black magic, we looked at love and thought it was enchantment. Sometimes, especially during those fifirst blissful moments when we want to stop strangers on the street and cry out, “I’m in love!” it may feel like enchantment, but, as we enter the 21st

century, we are discovering that love is a definable and calcu�lable blend of chemistry, biology, and psychology. (And, well,

maybe a little black magic thrown in.)