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24.10.09 โ€‹The Noisy Neighbors: You Should Go Easy on Her

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 9. 23:22

Chad : How are your noisy neighbors?

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋„ค ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ด์›ƒ์€ ์ข€ ์–ด๋•Œ?

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Maria : Well, I talked to her the other day and explained my situation, but she brushed it offโ€‹.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๊ธ€์Ž„, ์ผ์ „์— ๊ทธ๋…€๋ž‘ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‚ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌต์‚ดํ•ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด.

* brush something off : ~์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜๋‹ค

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Chad : You should go easy on her. It can't be easy having three little children in an apartment.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ. ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ์—์„œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์•„์ด ์…‹์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์‰ฌ์šธ ๋ฆฌ ์—†์ž–์•„.

* go easy on someone : ~๋ฅผ ์‚ด์‚ด ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋‹ค, ~๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋‹ค

* It can't be easy... : ์‰ฌ์šธ ๋ฆฌ ์—†์ง€

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Maria : Remember how you felt when there was construction outside your apartment for six months?

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๋„ค ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ 6๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„ ๊ณต์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜?

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Chad : Yeah, I hated it to say the least. It was really inconvenient.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ์‘, ์ค„์žก์•„ ๋งํ•ด๋„ ์งˆ์ƒ‰์ด์—ˆ์ง€. ์ •๋ง ๋ถˆํŽธํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ .

* to say the least : ์ค„์žก์•„ ๋งํ•ด๋„, ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋„ ๊ณผ์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด์„œ

* inconvenient : ๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ

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Maria : What did you do to make it easier to live with? Because I don't think this will be better in six months.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์–ด? ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ด๊ฑด 6๊ฐœ์›” ์•ˆ์— ๋” ๋‚˜์•„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ง„ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋“ .