If there is such a chemical in the body, then different people respond in different ways to it. Some are inspired to bitter endurance of self-imposed hardship, while for others it is like "eating sugar cane from the top down": the longer it goes on the sweeter it tastes.
這種思鄉激素的滋味，因人的體質而不同，對有些人它就像臥薪嘗膽一樣苦澀；對另一些人它卻像倒食甘蔗一樣，愈久愈有甘甜的感覺。