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★한달에 영어원서 한 권 읽기 1월의 책 Wonder Day 10(146-159p)

 

1.  Wonder를 읽으며 알게된 영어표현이나 인상깊은 문장, 공유하고 싶은 내용 등 자유롭게 올려주세요.

*chill 냉기, 식히다, 느긋한 시간을 보내다
I was glad about that because I was so bummed about this whole august thing and I just wanted some time to chill without having to see him every day.(146p)

I love that feeling when you first open your eyes in the morning and you don't even know why everything seem different than usual.(146p)

It was rainy day and yucky the first day back from vacation. A slush day. That's how I was feeling inside, too.(147p)

내 기분도 똑같았다. 


*spot 발견하다, 알아채다, 장소
On the way home, I spotted this banged-up wooden sled kind of propped up against the old indian rock monument.(146p)

And then I spotted my parents and I was totally fine.(27p)

 

*favor 호의를 보이다, 선호하다

Fortune favors the bold. 행운은 용기있는 자의 편이다, 하늘은 용기있는 자의 편이다

*gazillion 엄청난 수
They don't have those kinds of jobs where people make gazillions of dollars.(149p)

*nowhere 아무데도 없다, 아무데도
My grandmother lives in the house in the middle of nowhere.(149p)

*work on ~에 애쓰다, 공들이다 

So I was kind of scrambling today, trying to take notes about what Ms. Rubin was saying (my handwriting is awful), when all of a sudden she started talking about the fifth-grade science-fair project, how we all had to choose a science project to work on.(151p)

Me and Jack had this science-fair project idea we wanted to work on together.(154p)

 

*the most 가장 

And the thing I hate the most about school is all the homework we get.(151p)

I hate science the most out of all my classes.(151p)

 

*earth to ~야 듣고 있어?!  Earth to somebody! ~야 내 말 듣고 있어? 

유의어: pay attention to me. are you listening to me?

"Hello, earth to Jack Will?"(153p) 

 

*get stuck with 싫은 일을 떠맡다, 강요 당하다
You must be so bummed you got stuck with him.(153p)

Meanwhile, Mom's regular doctor wasn't on duty that night, so Mom got stuck with this cranky kid doctor she and Dad nicknamed Doogie after some old TV show or something.(6p)

+) How did I get stuck with that? 어쩌다 내가 그런 일을 떠맡게 된 걸까?
+) You're really a pushover to let yourself get stuck with all this work.  
    이 일을 모두 떠맡다니 너도 참 사람이 좋구나.

 

*jumble 마구 뒤섞다

*jumble up 뒤섞다, 뒤범벅을 만들다, 엉클어놓다
All your sentences would jumble up like giant knot if you opened your mouth.(155p)

+) Don't jumble up the things in the drawer.   
   서랍 속의 물건들을 뒤섞어 놓지 마.

*expel 추방하다, 쫓아내다, 퇴학시키다/ expulsion 추방, 제명, 퇴학
Kids get expelled for this kind of thing.(156p) 

Automatic expulsion. And you're not even trying to explain yourself.(156p) 

*bawl (화를 내며) 고함치다, (시끄럽게) 울어대다
I was crying a lot by now, and the second Mom put her arms around me, I started to bawl.(156p)

*be out for ~을 얻으려고 애쓰다
We're out for for winter break as of next week anyway.(156p)

*clean slate 깨끗한 경력, 새출발
*so to speak 말하자면, 달리 표현하자면

Clean slate, so to speak.(157p) 말하자면, 새출발이라는 얘기야. 

I figure they could take you around the school a bit, show you the lay of the land, so to speak.(21p)

+) start (off) with a clean slate 
   새출발하다, 다시 시작하다, 새롭게 시작하다, 과거를 잊고 다시 시작하다

+) If I start off with a clean slate, then I'll know.  
    다시 한 번 처음부터 시작하면, 나는 알 수 있을 것이다.


*suspend 매달다, 중지하다, 연기하다, 정학시키다/ Suspension 일시적 중지, 정학
Am I being suspended? I sniffled.(156p)

I am writing to let you know that my husband and i support your decision to allow Jack to return to beecher prep after a two-day suspension.

 

 *technically 따지고 보면, 엄격히 말해서, 기술적으로

"Well," he said, shrugging, "technically yes, but it's only for a couple of days.(156p)

"Technically, May is spring," Summer answered, "but if she wanted to sit here, we could make an exception."(52p)

구슬쌤 practically, technically, apparently 원어민처럼 쉽게 쓰는 법

 

구슬쌤 practically, technically, apparently 원어민처럼 쉽게 쓰는 법

쉬운 단어로 원어민처럼 말하기, 1:1 단어 뜻으로 외워서는 절대 활용할 수 없는 표현입니다. 정확한 뜻과 활용법을 몰라 쉽게 접근하기 어려운 practially, technically, apparently. 평소 원어민들이 정말

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*take for granted 당연한 일로 여기다, 대수롭지 않게 여기다 

 =accept without question, treat with careless indifference.
We're very lucky, there's so much we take for granted.(158p)

+) Don't take me for granted. 있을 때 잘 해  
+) Am I just someone you can take for granted now?

    너한테 나는 이제 그냥 막 해도 되는 사람이야?
+) Don’t take for granted the passion that she has for you.   
    당신에 대한 그녀의 열정을 당연한 것으로 받아들이지 말아요.

 

 

<Wonder 퀴즐렛 활용>-만든이: KIMJIYOUNGKorea 

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