Soberに「酔いを醒ます」「落ち着く」という動詞があることを始めて知りました。
At an age when men are sobering up after enjoying a decade of youthful excess, women are drinking ever-larger glasses of wine, miscalculating their units of alcohol and ignoring health warnings.
Women are less able to metabolise alcohol and suffer greater damage to their health than men after drinking similar amounts.
女性の方がアルコールを新陳代謝する、つまり分解することが得意でないのに、許容量を飲みすぎているということ。
Researchers breathalysed 1,200 late-night drinkers and then analysed the results, comparing alcohol consumption and the age of those tested.
Breathalyseは、酒気検知をすること。そのやり方は、言葉そのものです。では、許容量はというと・
Half of the women breathalysed had exceeded the daily recommended limit of six units of alcohol – equivalent to two large glasses of wine.
By contrast, only a third of the men had exceeded their recommended daily limit of eight units.
女性は大きなワイングラス2杯、男性は3杯弱。
The study said women were also found to be “significantly” less likely to remember how much they had drunk.