Having a lot of children is a way of insuring themselves against loneliness in old age.

养很多孩子是他们预防老年孤寂的一种办法。

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Public health experts in many countries are debating how to address widespread loneliness in our society.

许多国家的公共卫生专家正在讨论如何解决我们社会中普遍存在的孤独感问题。

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For some people, having a lot of children is a way of insuring themselves against loneliness in old age.

对一些人来说，养育比较多的孩子是一种保障自己不会老年孤寂的办法。

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In fact,a friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness.

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In "Last Train Home, " Mead paints a simple but ambivalent portrait of a late-night train ride in which fleeting companionship is unmistakably intertwined with loneliness.

NPR: David Mead: Warm And Bittersweet

Other factors involved in loneliness include individuals' levels of social skill, fear of rejection, and self-confidence, Leary said.

CNN: Feeling lonely? Genes might be at fault

It was loneliness that had led him to seek a conversation on a restaurant patio long past the lunch hour, as it was loneliness that had made her empty the refrigerator in the cottage and pack her belongings into five mega-sized black plastic garbage bags and drop them outside a Goodwill early one morning.

NEWYORKER: Alone