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24.09.25 โ€‹Asking Someone Out: That Was Pretty Smooth!

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

Ian : Guess what! I asked Sandra out on a date and she said yes!

์ด์•ˆ : ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋๊ฒŒ! ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ฑ”๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด!

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Melinda : That's exciting! I guess you took my advice when I said you should be yourself.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์ •๋ง ์‹ ๋‚œ๋‹ค! ํ‰์†Œ ๋„ค ๋ชจ์Šต๋Œ€๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‚ด ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค.

โ€‹* be oneself : ํ‰์†Œ์˜ ์ž๊ธฐ ๋ชจ์Šต ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์ด๋‹ค

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Ian : I was pretty nervous. But when Sandra said yes, she told me that she'd been hoping I'd ask her out for months!

์ด์•ˆ : ๊ฝค ๊ธด์žฅ๋์–ด. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ž๊ธฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ!

* for months : ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ

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Melinda : Did you ask her out over the phone?

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ์ „ํ™”๋กœ ํ–ˆ์–ด?

* over the phone : ์ „ํ™”๋กœ

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Ian : No, we were at the cafe. I said, "You know what would be a great date?" Then I described the evening I had in mind.

์ด์•ˆ : ์•„๋‹ˆ, ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์นดํŽ˜์— ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ "๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ”์ง€ ์•Œ์•„?"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์ง€. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋‹ค์Œ ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘” ์ €๋…์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์–ด.

* have in mind : ~ (์„) ์—ผ๋‘์— ๋‘๋‹ค

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Melinda : That was pretty smooth.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ๊ฝค ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กœ์› ๋„ค.

* smooth : ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กœ์šด

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