select * from tbl_news where devision_sn = 1442 and devision = 3 Dear Abby
l  Login  l  Register  l  Sitemap  l  Subscription  l  Media Kit 
 
 
 
  Learning Times > 독해/번역 > Dear Abby
 
  Date : 2012-08-08
Wife’s obsession with being thin weighs on her husband

날씬한 몸에 대한 부인의 집착이 남편을 정신적으로 힘들게 하고 있습니다
 
DEAR ABBY: My wife, "Angie," and I have been happily married for 11 years and have two wonderful kids. Angie has been working out the past couple of years and has achieved impressive results. She looks great. I fully support her in this and she knows it.
                              
The problem is she's consumed by an insatiable hunger to be thin, although she is already very much in shape. She talks nonstop about new diets and ideas for losing weight, even though I constantly compliment her. Why does she keep insisting that she needs to diet? -- ALARMED HUSBAND
                                
DEAR ALARMED: Your wife doesn't see herself the way you do. She does not accept that she has achieved her goal and regards herself as still a work in progress. This may be because she has low self-esteem, or she may have a condition called "body dysmorphia," in which a person can't stop thinking about a perceived flaw in his or her appearance.
                              
The person she should be talking to about her weight issues is her physician. I recommend you suggest it to her to be sure her preoccupation isn't an unhealthy one.

**   **   **   **   **
 
DEAR ABBY: My 6-year-old cousin wanted to make a lemonade stand, so my sister and I helped her, but she got discouraged because nobody would buy any. She was so angry she started yelling, then she crossed the line and dropped the F-word. My sister and I were shocked that a 6-year-old would know that word. She said her classmate told it to her. (They're in kindergarten.)
 
We told our parents, but we're not sure if we should tell her mother because she might think my sister and I taught it to her. Should we tell her mother or let it slide hoping she will forget the word and move on? -- NOT SURE IN SAN DIEGO
  
DEAR NOT SURE: Your parents should tell your aunt about the incident, just in case your cousin doesn't "forget" the word. That way her mother can explain to her that there are certain words polite people don't use because they are unacceptable.
  
* obsession 집착 (=a compulsive or irrational preoccupation)

* weigh on ~을 정신적으로 힘들게 하다 (=be depressing or burdensome to)

* work out 운동하다 (=engage in vigorous physical exercise)

* insatiable 채울 수 없는 (=impossible to satisfy)

* in shape 몸매가 보기 좋은 (=in a good state of physical fitness or bodily appearance)

* flaw 결함 (=a mark, blemish, or other imperfection which mars a substance or object)
 
* stand 가판대 (=a small stall or booth in a street, market, or public building from which goods are sold)

* incident 일 (=the act of something happening; occurrence)
Top