[시사영어 2023-07-29] 인공 알코올, 후유증 없고 행복만 가득

Enjoy Alcohol, Without the Hangover

 

What if you could indulge in your favorite cocktails with no hangover or other ill effects?

• indulge : (좋지 않다고 여기지는 것을) 마음껏 하다
• ill effects : 부작용
• hangover : 숙취
• vice : 범죄, 악덕, 악덕행위
• harmful : (건강, 환경에) 해로운

 

That’s one of the goals for researchers working to make one of the world’s oldest vices less harmful.

 

Some are developing hormone shots to help people sober up quickly.

 

• sober up : 술이깨다
• hormone shots : 호르몬 주사
• substitutes  : 대체제

 

Others are working on alcohol substitutes that target receptors in the brain that affect happiness, while dodging those that make imbibers slur and weave.

• receptor : (인체의) 수용체
• dodge : (몸을)재빨리 움직이다, (부정적 방법으로) 기피하다
• imbibe : (술을) 마시다, (정보를) 흡수하다
• Imbiber : 엥비베, 액체를 스며들게 하다.
• slur : (술이 취하거나 피곤해서) 불분명하게 발음하다, 혀 꼬부라진 소리로 말하다
• weave : 비틀거리다, (옷감 등을) 짜다, (이야기 등) 엮다 ( = zigzag, sway from side to side)

 

The London-based company is developing a synthetic alcohol that it says will bring pleasurable effects without hangovers, health problems or slurred speech.

• synthetic : (인위적으로) 합성한, 인조의, 종합적인, 인조(합성) 물질
• synthetic alcohol : 인공알코올
• pleasurable effects : 즐거운 영향

 

Its basis is an amino acid that targets receptors in the front of the brain that trigger the relaxation and sociability alcohol brings, while avoiding the chaos it wreaks on the body.

• chaos : 혼돈, 혼란
• wreak : (피해 등) 입히다
• amino acid : 아미노산

 

GABA receptors are the first contact for alcohol in the brain, opening up and relaxing people, Nutt says.

 

But alcohol then also floods the brain with other neurotransmitters that can cause nasty aftereffects.

 

• neurotransmitters : 신경 흥분 전달 물질
• nasty : 불쾌한, 고약한, 끔찍한, 형편없는, 위험한, 심각한
• aftereffects : 후유증, 여파

 

Creating a substance that targets only the GABA receptors allows the brain to then turn on dopamine and serotonin naturally as the pleasures of the evening take off, he says. “It feels like what a glass of wine feels like.

 

take off : 시작되다, 이륙하다

 

It feels relaxing. It makes you a bit more chatty, a bit more socially engaged with people.

• chatty : 수다스러운, 재잘거리는, 말이 많은