时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   For a good number of single people in New York City, living alone is a luxury. Instead of setting up a home for ourselves in Park Slope, many of us end up having to live with roommates.


  对于纽约市的很多单身人士来说,独居是一种奢侈。我们中的很多人最终不得不和室友住在一起,而不是在公园坡为自己安置一个家。
  But a new report in the New York Times found that it may actually be better for people to live with friends, since social isolation 1 can lead to poorer health.
  但是《纽约时报》的一份新报告发现,人们与朋友一起生活可能更好,因为社会孤立可能使健康水平下降。
  Dhruv Khullar wrote about working as a physician and treating dying patients who are all alone, from old people who can't take care of themselves to young men struggling with addiction 2.
  Dhruv Khullar写下了身为一个医生、治疗从不能自理的老人到正在戒瘾的青少年等孤独的濒死病人的事。
  "In these moments, it seems the only thing worse than suffering a serious illness is suffering it alone," Khullar noted 3.
  "在这些时刻,比遭受严重疾病看起来更糟糕的唯一的事情是独自忍受疾病,"Khullar说道。
  最新研究表明 独居可能有害健康
  Social isolation is a "growing epidemic," he says, and since the '80s, the number of Americans who say they are lonely has increased from 20 percent to 40 percent.
  他表示,社会孤立是一种"日益流行的疾病",自80年代以来,认为自己孤独的美国人的人数已从20%增加到40%。
  Nearly one-third of people over the age of 65 in the U.S. live alone, as compared to half of those over 85.
  在美国,65岁以上独居的人有将近三分之一,而85岁以上独居的人则有一半。
  And this growing isolation is detrimental 4 to a person's health — socially isolated 5 people are more likely to die in the next seven years.
  这种日益增长的孤立会对一个人的健康有害--社会孤立的人更有可能在未来七年内死亡。
  Individuals with less social connection have disrupted sleep patterns, altered immune systems, more inflammation and higher levels of stress hormones 6.
  具有较少社交联系的个体的睡眠模式已经被破坏,免疫系统已被改变,有更多的炎症和更高的应激激素水平。
  One recent study found that isolation increases the risk of heart disease by 29 percent and stroke by 32 percent.
  最近的一项研究发现,孤立使心脏病风险增加29%,中风风险增加32%。

n.隔离,孤立,分解,分离
  • The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后,生活比较孤寂。
n.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
adj.损害的,造成伤害的
  • We know that heat treatment is detrimental to milk.我们知道加热对牛奶是不利的。
  • He wouldn't accept that smoking was detrimental to health.他不相信吸烟有害健康。
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
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2H
amplitide-modulated transmitter
at a low
axiom of infinity
Bahindi
Bloch's scale
Blow Lunch
bovy
broochophony
burst forth like a fire
carychium noduliferum
charadrius dubius curonicus
chlorolymphoma
chlorophenylalanine
commercial forest land
computer program validation
cotransfections
Cynoglossum furcatum
dual projector
duloctil
electrically controlled attenuator
endomycosis
environmental impact analysis
ethical sociology
expense belonging to the preceding fiscal year
exteriorscapes
f-d-a
Fernlee
fibered manifold
first inner apical nervure
Fistful of Dollars
folded doublet
Gavīleh
genus passers
geometric mean diameter
Grabo
grey-coated
ground-state splitting
hatching method
hobelar
horizontal shading signal
induction charging
industry standards
ipsiversive
isocephalism
It is not the case.
lassaba hsuhonglini
left-handed cigarettes
linearity sector
liquid explosive drill
logatomes
long exposure
long-period average flow
louekoskis
low interest
low water flow
magnetic test coil
magneto-elastic load cell
marine dataset
mesh of grid
metallogenetic
minimoon
naked molten metal
Namburis
natural antitoxic immunity
neo-positivist epistemology
nonstarving
optimum cutting speed
organotropism
outofround
oversea chinese commercial bank
penalty free throws
polypary
Porez
quadratic response
radiocartograph
rapid translocation
rhytido-
road foreman of engines
secondhand rail
siliqua fasciata
skin actinomycosis
southbank
spell ... out
Stapledon
stearne
stoiques
suma
superhard tool material
Tarannon shales
tax colloector
teloi
Tha Li
tourism group
transducted
transformer bracket
Tricarico
tuyere arch
Undivided Account
Vaygach, Ostrov
wastebasket
watchful