7. Power English

24.09.21 Loneliness Is a Silent Killer

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:05

Around the world, loneliness is becoming a serious health crisis.

์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์€ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Ongoing studies have linked loneliness with heart disease, stroke, and dementia.

ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—์„œ๋Š” ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ์‹ฌ์žฅ๋ณ‘, ๋‡Œ์กธ์ฆ, ์น˜๋งค์™€ ์—ฐ๊ด€ ์ง€์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* stroke : ๋‡Œ์กธ์ค‘

* dementia : ์น˜๋งค

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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€ ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๋ช…์˜ ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์ƒํƒœ ์œ„ํ—˜์— ์ฒ˜ํ•ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* in danger of something : ~ํ•  ์œ„ํ—˜์— ์ฒ˜ํ•จ

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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.

ํ›„์† ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์—์„œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์™ธ๋กญ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* follow-up : ํ›„์†์˜, ๋’ค๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š”

* in terms of : ~๋ฉด์—์„œ[~์— ๊ด€ํ•˜์—ฌ]

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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€ ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ์ž๊ธฐ์˜ ๋ณธ๋ถ„์„ ๋‹คํ•˜์—ฌ ๋…๊ฑฐ ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์•ˆ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ฌป๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค๊ณผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์ง์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋…ธ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์™ธ๋กœ์›€์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋œ ๋Š๋ผ๋„๋ก ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ถŒ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* do one's part : ๋ณธ๋ถ„์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๋‹ค

* a little less : ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋œ