A New Zealand study has found that being around a heavy drinker could affect people’s health and well-being.
紐西蘭一項研究發現，身旁有酗酒的人，健康與幸福感可能因此受損。
Researchers at Massey University in Auckland surveyed more than 3,000 people for the study, which was published in Addiction.
奧克蘭梅西大學研究人員在《上癮》期刊發表這份報告，受訪者有3000多人。
They found that those with a family member, friend or colleague who drinks heavily generally gave lower ratings to their own health and well-being.
他們發現，受訪者身邊若有家人、朋友或同事酗酒，普遍會對自己的健康及幸福感給予較差評分。
Compared to people who did not have heavy drinkers in their lives, they also did less well on standard measures of general health, including chronic pain, anxiety and depression symptoms - and had lower overall satisfaction with life.
相較於生活中沒有酗酒者的人，他們在包括慢性疼痛、焦慮與憂鬱症徵狀等一般健康的標準測量表現上也較差，而且整體的生活滿意度也較低。
Lead researcher Sally Casswell says the average effect was similar to what has been seen in studies of people caring for somebody with a disability.
領導這項研究的莎莉．卡斯維爾表示，（身旁有酗酒者）造成的平均影響，近似於針對照顧傷殘的人所做之研究。
But Professor Casswell acknowledged that the findings do not prove that being around a heavy drinker was the root of study participants’ problems, noting that the study is just "a snapshot at one point in time".
但卡斯維爾教授承認，這些發現並不能證明該研究的受訪者問題源自於身旁有酗酒者，並指出，該研究只是「某個時間點的寫照。」
It’s possible, she noted, that people with poorer well-being are more likely to attract heavy drinkers into their lives, for example.
她指出，舉例來說，有可能是身心健康較差的人較可能將酗酒者吸引到他們生活中。
新聞辭典
well-being：名詞，（身心）健康、幸福感。well-being的中文翻譯雖與health類似，但在英文的使用上，特指人的健全發展，不但是身體上的健康，也包括心理上的滿足。
chronic：形容詞，（疾病）慢性的；延續很長的。例句：A chronic shortage of hard currency has limited that country’s imports for three decades. （由於長期缺乏強勢貨幣，30年來那個國家的進口一直受到限制。）
snapshot：名詞，快照；簡要印象。例句：The book gives us a snapshot of life in the Middle Ages.（這本書讓我們對中世紀的生活有了簡要印象。）
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