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24.09.27 Looking for Investors: It Checked All the Right Boxes

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:01

Olivia : Did you get an answer from that potential investor you told me about?

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ์ž ์žฌ์  ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด?

* potential : ์ž ์žฌ์ ์ธ

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John : He said my business checked all the right boxes for him and he would be a fool not to invest.

์กด : ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”๊ตฌ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋ฆฌ์„์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ผ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด.

* check/tick all the (right) boxes : ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”๊ตฌ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค

* would be a fool to ... / not to ... : ~ ํ•˜๋ฉด/ ~ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค

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Olivia : That's incredible!

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ์ •๋ง ๋†€๋ž๋‹ค!

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John : I was prepared for him to say no. l've learned that when it comes to money, you can't take it personally.

์กด : ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ–ˆ์–ด. ๋ˆ์— ๊ด€ํ•ด์„œ๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ ๋‚˜์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋ฉด ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ฐฐ์› ๊ฑฐ๋“ .

* take something personally : ~ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„ ๋‚˜์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋‹ค

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Olivia : That's a great attitude to have. I'm sure you two will be great partners.

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์€ ํƒœ๋„๋‹ค. ๋„ˆํฌ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช… ์ข‹์€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.

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John : I hope so. But now l'm on the hook for 20 percent of my profits for the next five years.

์กด : ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ผ. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ด์ œ ๋‚œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ 5๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜์ต์˜ 20%๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด.

* on the hook for something : (์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋ฌถ์—ฌ) ~์— ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ง€๋Š”

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