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24.10.26 Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?

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Having a pet is more common than ever, with nearly two-thirds of American homes having at least one pet.

๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ํ”ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, 2/3์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€์ •์—์„œ ์ ์–ด๋„ ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* ...than ever : ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค

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And every year, more people are changing their minds about pets and opening their homes and hearts to animals.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งค๋…„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ  ๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์ง‘๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* change one's mind : ๋งˆ์Œ(์ƒ๊ฐ)์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋‹ค (to alter one's original choice, decision, or plan)

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However, for many people, pets become a replacement for children.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์€ ์ž๋…€์˜ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋ฌผ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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With that comes efforts to make our pets more like us.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์—๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋” ๋น„์Šทํ•ด์ง€๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Some animal experts think we've โ€‹gone too farโ€‹.

์ผ๋ถ€ ๋™๋ฌผ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* go too far : ๋„๋ฅผ ๋„˜๋‹ค (to do something to an excessive degree) โ€‹

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Animals are developing more health and behavioral issues than ever before because of their total dependence on us.

๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜์กดํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฐ ํ–‰๋™ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* dependence : ์˜์กด โ€‹

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Maybe we need to strike a balance between letting animals be animals and trying to turn them into children.

์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋™๋ฌผ๋กœ์„œ ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์ž๋…€๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋งž์ถฐ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* strike a balance : ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋‹ค (to find a compromise between two different things)

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