POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR Books We Love: Tales From Around The World
Books can take you anywhere. Across oceans, across borders, to places you may have never seen. And those books are some of the ones that we treasure the most. Today we're recommending great books that take you around the world.
Books can take you anywhere. And those books are some of the ones that we treasure most. *treasure (동사) 소중히 여기다 It's really sweet and kind of an offbeat family story. *offbeat 색다른, 특이한 *memoir 회고록 *microaggression 미세한 공격 *outright 노골적인 outright racism 노골적인 인종차별 *not quite : 완전히 …하지는 않은, 그다지 …하지는 않는 Not quite like the streets are paved with gold. *chip away 조금씩 잘라내다 서서히 사라지다 Begin to chip away at his idea of what the U.S. was. It follows kind of his story of becoming infatuated with and falling in love with a girl *Infatuate 얼빠지게 만들다, <사람을> 호리다, 열중하게 하다, 얼빠진[열중해 있는] (사람) *infatuated with ~에게 반한, 빠진 But then it's also kind of set alongside the process of this city kind of getting totally changed *set alongside ~에 따라(함께) 설정되다 And so every scene, every place was described really in intricate detail. *intricate [ˈɪntrɪkət] 세밀한, 복잡한 He's able to see the city from a different vantage point. *vantage 우세 유리한 점 *vantage point (무엇을 지켜보기에) 좋은 위치, (특히 과거를 생각해 보는) 시점[상황]