We're back for another season of the Convo Club! To kick things off, since we are so close to Valentine's Day, we thought we'd start with something "love" related. Hope you enjoy it and learn some useful Chinese phrases.

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网络热词(Wǎngluò rè cí) – Internet Buzzword

恋爱脑(Liàn'ài nǎo) – Love on the Brain

失去(shīqù)– To Lose

思维(sīwéi) – Mindset, (line of) thought

奇葩(qípā) – Exotic Flower, (slang) Weirdo

事迹(shìjì) – Deeds, Story,Exploits

相处(xiāngchǔ)– To Interact, To Get Along (well, poorly)

妥协(tuǒxié)– To Over-Compromise

付出(fùchū) – To Expend, To Invest time or energy

底线(dǐxiàn) – Lowest Limit, Threshold, Baseline

统计(tǒngjì) - Statistics

占比(zhàn bǐ)– percentage-wise 占用的比例 （Proportion)

网络热词“恋爱脑”描述的是人一旦谈恋爱，就失去了正常思维的现象。网络上很多人都分享了自己有“恋爱脑”的朋友的种种奇葩事迹。

“恋爱脑”的出现说明人们大都不太知道什么是爱情，也不知道应该如何与恋人相处才是对的。因此，很多人把妥协和付出看成了谈恋爱必须做的事情。最后人们开始失去自己做事的底线。据统计，在有恋爱脑的人群里，女性占比很高。

Wǎngluò rè cí “liàn'ài nǎo” miáoshù de shì rén yīdàn tán liàn'ài, jiù shīqùle zhèngcháng sīwéi de xiànxiàng. Wǎngluò shàng hěnduō rén dōu fēnxiǎngle zìjǐ yǒu “liàn'ài nǎo” de péngyǒu de zhǒngzhǒng qípā shìjì. “Liàn'ài nǎo” de chūxiàn shuōmíng rénmen dàdū bù tài zhīdào shénme shì àiqíng, yě bù zhīdào yīnggāi rúhé yǔ liànrén xiāngchǔ cái shì duì de. Yīncǐ, hěnduō rén bǎ tuǒxié hé fùchū kàn chéngle tán liàn'ài bìxū zuò de shìqíng. Zuìhòu rénmen kāishǐ shīqù zìjǐ zuòshì de dǐxiàn. Jù tǒngjì, zài yǒu liàn'ài nǎo de rénqún lǐ, nǚxìng zhàn bǐ hěn gāo

The Internet buzzword "love brain" describes the phenomenon where people lose the ability to think straight once they fall in love. Many people on the Internet have shared all kinds of strange exploits of their friends with "love brain". The emergence of "love brain" shows that most people don't know what love is, nor do they know how to get along with their partners. Therefore, many people regard self-compromise and sacrifice as things that must be done in a relationship. Eventually people stop maintaining boundaries. According to statistics, women account for a higher proportion of people with love brain.