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24.10.11 Economic Unease Grips America Despite Strong Indicators

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 11. 23:00

Consumer sentiment in the U.S. has plummeted to an eight-month low, reflecting widespread economic concerns among Americans.

๊ฒฝ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํผ์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ 8๊ฐœ์›” ๋งŒ์— ์ตœ์ €์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

* sentiment : ์ •์„œ, (๊ฐ์ •โˆ™๋Š๋‚Œ์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•œ) ๊ฒฌํ•ด

* reflect : <๊ฐ์ •โˆ™์‚ฌ์‹คโˆ™์ƒํ™ฉ ๋“ฑ>์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋‹ค

* widespread : ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ, ๋„๋ฆฌ ํผ์ง„, ํญ๋„“๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ง„

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Despite robust economic indicators, a significant portion of the population believes the country is in a recession.

๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ง€ํ‘œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ธ๊ตฌ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด์— ๋น ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

* robust : <์ฒด์ œโˆ™์กฐ์ง ๋“ฑ์ด> ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ, ํŠผํŠผํ•œ

* indicator : ์ง€ํ‘œ, ์ฒ™๋„

* significant : (์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ผ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ์ •๋„๋กœ) ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ, ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š”, ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ

* portion : ๋ถ€๋ถ„, ์ผ๋ถ€

* recession : ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐํ›„ํ‡ด, ๋ถˆ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ, ๋ถˆํ™ฉ

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This disconnect between official data and public perception highlights the complex nature of the current economic landscape.

โ€‹๋ณต์žกํ•œ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ๋Œ€์ค‘ ์ธ์‹ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ดด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋œ๋‹ค.

* disconnect : (์ƒ๊ฐโˆ™์ดํ•ด ๋“ฑ์˜) ๊ดด๋ฆฌ, (๊ด€๊ณ„์˜) ๋‹จ์ ˆ (์ƒํƒœ)

* perception : ์ธ์‹, ์ดํ•ด

* landscape : ์ƒํ™ฉ

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Inflation remains a major factor contributing to economic anxiety.

์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์„ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

* contribute to/toward something : โ‹ฏ์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹ค

* anxiety : ๋ถˆ์•ˆ, ๊ฑฑ์ •, ๊ทผ์‹ฌ

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AIthough it has decreased from its peak in 2022, its persistent nature continues to erode purchasing power.

2022๋…„ ์ •์ ์„ ์ฐ์€ ์ดํ›„ ์™„ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์†๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ ฅ์„ ์ž ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

* peak : ์ตœ๊ณ ์ , ์ •์ , ํ”ผํฌ

* persistent : <๋‚˜์œ ์ƒํ™ฉโˆ™์ƒํƒœ ๋“ฑ์ด> ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š”, ๋งŒ์„ฑ์ ์ธ

* erode : <๊ถŒ์œ„โˆ™์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ๋“ฑ>์„ ์„œ์„œํžˆ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋œจ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค

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The average inflation-adjusted weekly paycheck has reportedly shrunk during the current administration's term.

์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•œ ํ‰๊ท  ์ฃผ๊ธ‰์ด ํ˜„ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ž„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์กŒ๋‹ค.

* adjust : <์ˆ˜์น˜โˆ™๊ณ„์‚ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ>์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๋‹ค

* paycheck : ๊ธ‰์—ฌ, ๋ณด์ˆ˜

* reportedly : ์†Œ๋ฌธ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ๋Š”

* shrink : (์–‘โˆ™๊ฐ€์น˜ ๋“ฑ์ด) ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ถ•์†Œ๋˜๋‹ค, ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๋‹ค

* administration : ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€, ์ •๋ถ€

* term : ์ž„๊ธฐ

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This reduction in buying power has forced many to reconsider their spending habits and priorities.

โ€‹์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์†Œ๋น„ ์Šต๊ด€๊ณผ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ์žฌ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

* reduction : (ํฌ๊ธฐโˆ™์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰ ๋“ฑ์˜) ๊ฐ์†Œ, ์ถ•์†Œ

* buying power : ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ ฅ

* force somebody to do something : โ‹ฏ๊ฐ€ โ‹ฏํ•˜๋„๋ก ๊ฐ•์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค

* priority : ์šฐ์„ (๊ถŒ), ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„

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While unemployment rates remain low and certain economic indicators show strength, the lived experiences of many Americans paint a different picture.

์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์ด ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ง€ํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋Š” ์ด์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค.

* certain : ์–ด๋Š ์ •๋„์˜, ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜

* indicator : ์ง€ํ‘œ, ์ฒ™๋„

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This situation has led to a heightened focus on economic issues in public discourse.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๋‹ด๋ก ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜ ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์ปค์กŒ๋‹ค.

* lead to something : <ํŠน์ • ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ>์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋‹ค, โ‹ฏ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๋‹ค

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A significant portion of the population even cite the economy as the nation's most pressing problem.

โ€‹์ธ๊ตฌ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹œ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ผฝ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.โ€‹

* cite : <์‚ฌ๋ก€โˆ™์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ>์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋‹ค

* pressing : ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•œ, ์‹œ๊ธ‰ํ•œ

 

 

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