귀트영 20101129 뉴스 스크립트

The price of being single

Living alone costs singletons an extra £250,000 over a lifetime compared to couples, it is claimed.
A new study suggests carrying the full burden of a mortgage and bills all adds up.
Researchers compared the spending of people living alone with couples.
According to the findings single people are paying a hefty penalty for going it alone.
The biggest aspect of the "singles tax" is housing because people who live alone have to pay an average of £7,080 a year on mortgage or rent compared with £3,804 for someone living with a partner.
The lack of opportunity for bulk buying at the supermarket is  additional penalties.
The findings were given added impetus by the projection that the number of single-person households could reach 9.5 million over the next decade.
"If you live alone the chances are you're not going to go on holiday so much either - 43% of people who live alone don't go on holiday," says one researcher.
You have to spend on necessities rather than having fun.
Hannah Betts, who writes the column Things You Only Know If You're Single in The Times, accepts the fact that it is expensive living alone.
But she dismisses the study's point that single people can't afford to have fun.
"Part of being single is having this carpe diem lifestyle - when you're single one's social life is one's life."

[ 원문 : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10892142]

Words and sentence on air
* singletons : (영) 독신자 (미) singles
   bachelor : 남자 독신자
   bachelorette : 여자 독신자
* mortgage : 주택담보대출
* hefty : 부담이 되는, 부담되게 큰.
   hefty bag : (그 자체가) 무거운 가방
* bulk buying : 대량구입
   bulk : 대량의
   bulky : 부피가 큰
   too bulky : 부피가 너무 크다.
* impetus : 촉진제역할을 하다.
* dismiss : 무시하다.
   the case was dismissed : (법) 소송이 기각되다.
   class is dismissed : 수업이 끝나다.
* afford : 여유가 되다.
* carpe diem : 그 날을 즐겨라

* burden : 부담
* going it alone : 혼자서 살다.
   I can't go it alone : 혼자서 ~을 할 수 없다.
* lack of opportunity : 기회를 잃다.
* projection : 전망
* chances are : ~할 가능성이 많은