Having a pet is more common than ever, with nearly two-thirds of American homes having at least one pet.
๋ฐ๋ ค๋๋ฌผ์ ํค์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค๋ ํํ ์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, 2/3์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ ์ด๋ ํ ๋ง๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋๋ฌผ์ ํค์ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
* ...than ever : ๊ทธ ์ด๋๋๋ณด๋ค
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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 ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ฐ๋ ค๋๋ฌผ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ๋๋ฌผ๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ ๋ค์ ์ง๊ณผ ๋ง์์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
* change one's mind : ๋ง์(์๊ฐ)์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ค (to alter one's original choice, decision, or plan)
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However, for many people, pets become a replacement for children.
๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋๋ฌผ์ ์๋ ์ ๋์ฒด๋ฌผ์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
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With that comes efforts to make our pets more like us.
๊ทธ๊ฒ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋๋ฌผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ ๋น์ทํด์ง๋๋ก ๋ง๋๋ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฐ๋ฆ ๋๋ค.
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Some animal experts think we've โgone too farโ.
์ผ๋ถ ๋๋ฌผ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ๋์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
* 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.
๋๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์กดํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ฐ ํ๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํค๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
* 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.
์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๋ฌผ๋ก์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์๋ ๋ก ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ด์์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถฐ์ผ ํ ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฆ ๋๋ค.
* strike a balance : ๊ท ํ์ ์ ์งํ๋ค (to find a compromise between two different things)
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