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20210611 Friday

Afflict 苦しめる Trouble

And we Americans are not unusually afflicted—one 2016 study reported that worldwide, 10 to 30 percent of the population experiences insomnia; some studies find rates as high as 50 to 60 percent.

torment 苦痛 agony

When you should be sleeping, you want to be awake; when you should be awake, you want to stay asleep. It is easy to regard sleep as a torment: hard to attain and then hard to give up, day after day after day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/revenge-bedtime-procrastination/619156/

buncha = bunch of

Faring fare やっている

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