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Sleep Shortage Takes Its Toll
(NBC News, 2010)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34276015/vp/35697236#35697236
Back here tonight with our week-long series of reports called «Personal Best», and you can’t get
anywhere close to that goal without sleep. It’s one of those things Americans say they want the most.
The rich can’t buy it and without it, you’re never quite right. Here is our chief science correspondent,
Robert Bezelle.
When former President Clinton suffered heart trouble recently, he said (that) lack of sleep could’ve been a
factor.
From the time of the Haiti earthquake, I’ve been working a lot without sleeping much.
Waking up again six or eight times over the course of a night…
Far-fetched? Not at all say sleep experts like Doctor Grace Pen of the University of Pennsylvania.
There are a couple of research studies now that, ah, have looked at the association between how much
people sleep and whether they’re more likely to have heart disease, and that association is looking like
it’s real.
Many experts say (that) sleep is a critical part of staying fit that many people ignore.
Sleep is part of a triade of healthy behaviors, eating right and exercise being the other two.
Actually, my cardiologist sent me in to see you. Ah, I’ve been exhausted all day long.
Sleep-lab studies show how all three parts interact. Sleeplessness leaves people less motivated to
exercise. It also releases stress hormones and alters insulin production, making them eat poorly, gain
weight and putting them at risk for diabetes and heart disease.
All night long (I couldn’t sleep) the Internet buzzes..
I’m tired beyond belief … with people sharing their computer diaries of insomnia.
One-thirty in the morning.
For increasing numbers of Americans, the solution is to take a sleeping-pill almost every night. In 2008
doctors wrote fifty-seven million prescriptions for sleep medication – a number that almost doubled in
seven years.
According to experts, some people may need that nightly pill, but most do not.
I think that the vast majority of people who are not getting, uh, enough sleep just aren’t making enough
time to sleep.
That means walking away from the computer, the TV and other distractions long enough to fall asleep –
ever more important in the struggle to achieve our personal best.
Robert Bezelle, NBC News, New York.
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Vocabulary
01. sleep shortage
un manque de sommeil
02. to take its toll
03. get anywhere close to that goal
04. you’re never quite right
05. lack of sleep
faire des dégats, avoir un impact négatif
s’approcher de ce but
vous ne vous sentez jamais tout à fait bien
un manque de sommeil
06. from the time of the Haiti earthquake
07. to wake up over the course of a night
08. far-fetched (idea)
09. a couple of …studies
depuis le tremblement de terre
se réveiller en cours de nuit
une idée ‘tirée par les cheveux’
quelques études
10. to look at the association between…
11. whether they’re more likely to
12. to look like it’s real
étudier le rapport, le lien entre…
s’ils ont plus de risques de
sembler vrai
13. to stay fit
14. that people ignore
15. actually
16. to be exhausted all day long
17. sleeplessness
rester en bonne forme physique
auquel les gens ne prêtent pas attention
en fait (et non “actuellement”!)
être épuisé toute la journée
l’insomnie
18. releases stress hormones
19. making them eat poorly
20. all night long
21. the Internet buzzes...
émettre des hormones de stress
les conduisant à manger mal
toute la nuit
l’internet ‘bourdonne’
22. I’m tired beyond belief
23. a prescription
24. that nightly pill
25. to get enough sleep
26. to make enough time to sleep
27. that means walking away from the computer
28. the struggle to achieve our personal best
je suis plus qu’épuisé
une ordonnance
cette pillule nocturne (somnifère)
dormir suffisamment
trouver le temps pour dormir suffisamment
cela veut dire s’éloigner (d’éteindre) son PC
la lutte pour réaliser tout notre potentiel (son
‘record personnel’)