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Croatian to English: Stres General field: Other Detailed field: Psychology
Source text - Croatian Djeca pod stresom
Sociolog Ronald Pitzer kaže: ”Mnogi mladi stalno su izloženi stresu.“ Mladi u pubertetu prolaze kroz brojne fizičke i emocionalne promjene, a tu su još i pritisci s kojima se susreću u školi. Prema knjizi Childstress! svaki školski dan ”nosi sa sobom mnoštvo problema i pritisaka koji izazivaju stres — bilo na nastavi i u sportskim aktivnostima bilo u odnosima s vršnjacima i nastavnicima“.
U određenim dijelovima svijeta taj osjećaj tjeskobe među mladima još je više izražen zbog straha od nasilja u školi, a kod mnogih i zbog straha od terorističkih napada i drugih katastrofa. ”Ako roditelji stalno govore kako je današnji svijet strašan, to nas mlade plaši“, napisala je jedna tinejdžerka.
Roditelji bi uvijek trebali pružati podršku svojoj djeci. No, kako kaže Pitzer, ”roditelji nažalost često ne pridaju pažnju čak ni najdubljim osjećajima svoje djece i tinejdžera, smatrajući ih nevažnima, neutemeljenima i bezrazložnima ili ih čak ignoriraju“. Ponekad je to zbog toga što i sami roditelji imaju problema u braku. ”Moji su se roditelji stalno prepirali“, kaže mladi Tito, čiji su se roditelji razveli. No kako navodi knjiga Childstress!, ”emocionalni stres kod djece ne izazivaju samo fizičko nasilje i prepirke. Netrpeljivost koja se osjeća čak i kad je se nastoji prikriti lijepim riječima jako uznemirava djecu.“
Cijena stresa
Bez obzira na to jesmo li mladi ili stari, jesmo li izloženi stresu na radnom mjestu ili u školi, moramo biti svjesni da kronični stres može itekako ugroziti naše zdravlje. Jedan spisatelj koji se bavi medicinskim temama objašnjava: ”Organizam koji je pod stresom može se usporediti s avionom koji je pred samim uzlijetanjem.“ Osobi koja je pod stresom srce ubrzano kuca, a krvni tlak naglo raste. Razina šećera i hormona u krvi također se povećava. ”Ukoliko stres ne popušta“, navodi dalje isti spisatelj, ”svi organi u tijelu koji reagiraju na stres (mozak, srce, pluća, krvne žile i mišići) stalno primaju prekomjernu ili premalu količinu podražaja. Takvo stanje u organizmu s vremenom može uzrokovati fizička ili psihička oštećenja.“ Broj bolesti koje se mogu javiti pod utjecajem stresa zastrašujuće je velik. Srčane bolesti, moždani udar, poremećaji u radu imunološkog sustava, rak, mišićnokoštane bolesti i dijabetes samo su neke od njih.
Posebno velik problem je to što se mnogi, a naročito mladi, protiv stresa bore na pogrešan način. Dr. Bettie Youngs kaže: ”Vrlo je žalosno gledati tinejdžere kako se u želji da pobjegnu od pritisaka okreću alkoholu i drogi, kriminalu, slobodnom spolnom moralu i nasilju te bježe od kuće i škole, čime samo stvaraju još veće probleme od onih od kojih bježe.“
Stres je sastavni dio suvremenog života i od njega ne možemo pobjeći. No, kako će pokazati sljedeći članak, mnogo je toga što možemo učiniti kako bismo se lakše nosili s njime.
Translation - English Children Under Stress
Says sociologist Ronald L. Pitzer: “Many young people experience high levels of stress.” They must deal with the physical and emotional changes of puberty. There are also the pressures of school. According to the book Childstress! the typical school day “is fraught with problems and pressures creating stress—in academics, sports, in peer relationships and in interchanges with teachers.”
In some areas the threat of school violence adds to feelings of anxiety—not to mention the fears many youths now have of terrorist attacks and other disasters. “If parents are constantly talking about how scary the world is right now,” writes one teenage girl, “it’s going to make us scared.”
Parents should be a source of strength for their children. But, says Pitzer: “All too often, efforts by children and teens to communicate intense feelings are minimized, denied, rationalized, or ignored by parents.” In some cases parents are immobilized by their own marital tensions. “It seems like my parents were always fighting,” says young Tito, whose parents eventually divorced. As the book Childstress! observes, “physical fights and verbal altercations are not the only causes for trauma. Smoldering resentment that transmits itself even when masked by honied words unsettles children.”
The Price of Stress
Whether you are young or old or the stress in your life comes from work or school, chronic stress can take a heavy toll on your health. One medical writer explains: “The stress response of the body is somewhat like an airplane readying for take-off.” Yes, when you feel stress, your heart rate and blood pressure soar. Your levels of blood sugar rise. Hormones are released. “If stress becomes persistent,” the same writer continues, “all parts of the body’s stress apparatus (the brain, heart, lungs, vessels, and muscles) become chronically over- or under-activated. This may produce physical or psychologic damage over time.” The list of illnesses in which stress may play a role is alarmingly long: heart disease, stroke, immune disorders, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders, and diabetes, to name just a few.
Of particular concern is the unhealthy way in which many—especially young ones—try to cope with stress. Dr. Bettie B. Youngs laments: “It is very depressing to find out that in their desire to escape from pain, teenagers take routes such as alcohol and drug abuse, truancy, delinquency, sexual promiscuity, aggression and violence, and running away from home—routes that lead them into problems more overwhelming than those they were trying to escape.”
Stress is a fact of modern living; it cannot be avoided entirely. But as the next article will show, there is much we can do to manage stress!
English to Croatian: Mobile Phones General field: Other Detailed field: Telecom(munications)
Source text - English A Boon to Business
The booming sales of mobile phones are a boon to many businesses. One large firm stated: “The mobile telephone market is the largest consumer electronics segment ever.” In other words, more money is spent on mobile phones now than on any other electronic device in the past.
In Australia, for example, more than 15 million of the 20 million inhabitants own a mobile phone. The customers of just one of the many telephone companies in that country made 7.5 billion mobile-phone calls in a recent year. Worldwide, mobile phones generate billions of dollars a year for telecommunication companies. It is easy to see why big business views the mobile phone as a friend.
Translation - Croatian Prijatelj kompanijama
Sve veća prodaja mobitela ide u prilog mnogim kompanijama. Jedna velika tvrtka izjavila je: ”Mobiteli su dosad najprodavaniji artikl na području elektronike.“ Drugim riječima, na mobitele se troši više novca nego što se ikad trošilo na druge elektroničke uređaje.
Naprimjer, u Australiji od 20 milijuna stanovnika više od 15 milijuna posjeduje mobitel. Tijekom jedne od proteklih godina korisnici usluga samo jedne od mnogih telefonskih kompanija u toj zemlji obavili su čak 7,5 milijardi telefonskih poziva. Mobiteli godišnje donesu milijarde dolara zarade telekomunikacijskim kompanijama diljem svijeta. Jasno je zbog čega takve kompanije mobitele smatraju svojim prijateljima
I've been working for 12 years as interpreter for:
Miss Judy Keane (ABC News Reporter from Phoenix, Arizona) in 1997 and 1998.
OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Barbara Smith,MAST team; Thord Drugg, Swedish VIP; Vladimir Kuznetsov, Russian associate;) during several years.
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