2020年6月英語四級翻譯練習題：空巢老人

通常情況下，“空巢老人（emptynester）”是指子女離家后的中老年人。如今，隨著社會老齡化程度的加深，空巢老人越來越多，已經成為一個不容忽視的社會問題（social issue）。同時它也導致了另一個問題——家庭空巢綜合征（syndrome）的產生，是指當子女由于工作、學習、結婚等原因而離家后，獨守空巢的中老年人因此而產生的心理失調癥狀。

Typically, "empty nester" refers to the middle-aged and elderly people whose children have left home. Nowadays, along with the advance of aging of the society, there are more and more empty nesters, which have become a social issue that cannot be ignored. At the same time, it also leads another problem--empty nest syndrome--a psychological disorder the middle-aged and elderly people suffered, which is caused by the absence of their children who move out of home due to work, study, marriage and so on.