Around the world, loneliness is becoming a serious health crisis.
์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๋ก์์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
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Ongoing studies have linked loneliness with heart disease, stroke, and dementia.
ํ์ฌ ์งํ ์ค์ธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ค์์๋ ์ธ๋ก์์ ์ฌ์ฅ๋ณ, ๋์กธ์ฆ, ์น๋งค์ ์ฐ๊ด ์ง์์ต๋๋ค.
* stroke : ๋์กธ์ค
* dementia : ์น๋งค
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Health officials in the U.K. have assessed thousands of seniors to see if they are in danger of these health conditions.
์๊ตญ ๋ณด๊ฑด ๋น๊ตญ์ ์์ฒ ๋ช ์ ๋ ธ์ธ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ์ํ ์ํ์ ์ฒํด ์๋์ง ์์๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
* in danger of something : ~ํ ์ํ์ ์ฒํจ
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In follow-up visits, they found that those who ranked higher in terms of loneliness had experienced more health problems than those who weren't lonely or isolated.
ํ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์์, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ธ๋ก์ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ณด๋ค ์์๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์งํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ธ๋กญ์ง ์๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋์ง ์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์์์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค.
* follow-up : ํ์์, ๋ค๋ฐ๋ฅด๋
* in terms of : ~๋ฉด์์[~์ ๊ดํ์ฌ]
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They suggest everyone do their part and check in on seniors who live alone and spend a little time talking to them, so they feel a little less lonely.
๋ณด๊ฑด ๋น๊ตญ์ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ณธ๋ถ์ ๋คํ์ฌ ๋ ๊ฑฐ ๋ ธ์ธ๋ค์ ์๋ถ๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ค๊ณผ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ง์ผ๋ก์จ ๋ ธ์ธ๋ค์ด ์ธ๋ก์์ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๋๋ผ๋๋ก ํ ๊ฒ์ ๊ถ์ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
* do one's part : ๋ณธ๋ถ์ ๋คํ๋ค, ์ ์ญํ ์ ๋คํ๋ค
* a little less : ์กฐ๊ธ ๋
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