영어 공부합시다!! 영어 공부합시다!!

Incredible as it seems to me now, I formed the idea of  asking Parnell’s sister Eileen to accompany me to a tea dance at the Plaza. 지금은 나에게 믿을 수 없는 것처럼 보일지라도, 나는 파넬의 여동생 아일린을 나와 같이 플라자호텔의 무도장에 데려가 볼까 하는 생각을 만들어냈다. ★Incredible as it seems to me: =Even though it seems incredible to me / incredible 믿을 수 없는 of asking"은 전치사구로 "요청하는 것에 대한“accompany 동반하다 The plan shaped up in my mind as an expedition o..

One day, through a set of circumstances I have forgotten, my sister managed to work me into an afternoon engagement she had with some others in New York. 어느 날, 내가 잊어버린 일련의 상황 속에서, 누나는 뉴욕에 있는 어떤 다른 사람들과 가진 어느 오후의 약속에 나를 설득하여 데리고 갔다. ★worK me into an afternoon engagement: 어느 오후의 약속에 나를 (설득  하여) 데리고 가다To me, at that time, New York was a wonderland largely  unexplored. I had been to Hippodrome a cou..

출근길이 매우 춥습니다. 요새 많은 사람이 감기로 고생하고 있어요. 감기를 조심합시다.My bashfulness and backwardness annoyed my older  sister very much, and at about the period of which I am writing she began making strong efforts to stir me up.나의 수줍어함과 소극적임이 누나를 매우 짜증나게 했고, 그리고 내가 글을 쓰고 있던 그 시기 즈음에 그녀는 나를 각성시켜서 엄청난 노력을 하도록 만들기  시작했다. ★bashfulness: 부끄러워함 ★backwardness: 수줍어함, 쑥쓰러워함  annoy 짜증나게 하다  ※at about: ~ 쯤에, 약~, ~즈음에 ★stir som..

In the four years I was in the Mount Vernon High School, I never went to a school dance and I never took a girl to a drugstore for a soda or to the Westchester Playhouse or to  the Proctor’s.내가 마운트 버논 고등학교에 다니던 4년 동안, 나는 학교 무도회에 간 적도 없고, 여자아이를 데리고 탄산수 파는 가게에 가거나 웨스트체스터 극장이나 프록터 극장에 간 적도 없었다. ★playhouse: =theater,   heater + T = theater I wanted to do these things but did not have  the nerve.나는 이..

In the matter of girls, I was different from most boys of my  age. I admired girls a lot, but they terrified me.여자 문제에 있어서, 나는 내 나이의 다른 아이들과는 달랐다. 나는 여자아이들을 무척 좋아했지만, 그들이 나를 무섭게 했다. *admire 존경하다, 칭찬하다 *terrified 무서워하는 겁이 난 I did not feel that I possessed the peculiar gifts or accomplishments that  girls liked in their male companions — the ability to dance,  to play football, to cut up a bit in ..

[The thing that made Parnell a special man in my eyes in those days] was not his handsome appearance and friendly manner but his sister. Her name was Eileen. 그 시절에 내가 보기에 파넬이 특별한 남자가 되게 만든 것은 그의 잘생긴 외모나 다정한 태도가 아니라 그의 누이였다. 그녀의 이름은 아일린이었다. ★Eileen: [eye-LEEN]으로 읽는다.She was my age and she was a quiet, nice-looking girl. 그녀는 나와 동갑이고 말수가 적었으며, 예쁜 소녀였다.She never came over  to my yard to play, and I ..

“Afternoon of an American Boy” 는  E.B . White(1899~1985) 의 작품입니다. 나름대로 읽어볼만한 글입니다. 미국이란 나라를 이해하기 위해 꼭 필요한 작품이라고 생각합니다. 같이 함께 읽어 보도록 합시다.When I was in my teens, I lived in Mount Vernon, in the same block with J. Parnell Thomas, who grew up to become chairman of the House Committee on Un -American  Activities. 내가 10대 시절에, 나는 마운트 버논에 살았는데, J. 파넬 토마스와 같은 블록에서 살았다. 그는 성장해서 하원 반미활동 조사 위원회 위원장이 되었다.★Mo..

드디어 오늘부로 "On the Philosophy of Hats" 모자 철학이야기가 마무리 됩니다. 재미있을 것으로 생각됩니다. 아무튼 영어공부는 말을 잘하는 것도 필요하지만.. 글을 잘 읽도록 하는 것도 중요한 일이라고 생각합니다. 꾸준히 공부해 봅시다.In short, we all go through life wearing spectacles coloured  by our own tastes, our own calling, and our own prejudices,  measuring our neighbours by our own tape-measure, summing them up  according to our own private arithmetic. 요약컨대, 우리는 우리 자신의 취향, 우리 ..