7. Power English

24.09.18 Asking Someone Out: Take the Initiative

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:07

Melinda : I think Sandra really likes you. She's just waiting for you to take the initiative and ask her out.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋„ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ๊ฑ”๋Š” ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ๋‚˜์„œ์„œ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋งŒ ์žˆ์–ด.

* take the initiative : ์†”์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์„ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋‹ค

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Ian : You don't think she'll turn me down?

์ด์•ˆ : ๊ฑ”๊ฐ€ ๋‚  ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•  ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?

* turn someone down : ~๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค

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Melinda : Look, I'm a girl, so I think I can tll when a girl likes a guy.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ๋ด, ๋‚˜๋„ ์—ฌ์ž์•ผ, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์ž๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด.

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Ian : I'll take you word for it. I've probably been overthinking it anyway.

์ด์•ˆ : ๋„ค ๋ง์„ ๋ฏฟ์„๊ฒŒ. ์–ด์จŒ๋“  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์•˜๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ.

* take someone's word for it : ~์˜ ๋ง์„ ๊ณง์ด๊ณง๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๋‹ค

* overthinking : ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ

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Melinda : Exactly! Do you know there you want to take her on your date?

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ๋งž์•„! ๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฑ”๋ฅผ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐˆ์ง€ ์ •ํ–ˆ์–ด?

* Exactly! : ๋งž์•„! ์ •ํ™•ํ•ด!

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Ian : Yeah, she's really into orchids, so I want to take her to the botanical garden and then to a nice restaurant nearby.

์ด์•ˆ : ์‘, ๊ฑ”๋Š” ๋‚œ์ดˆ์— ํ‘น ๋น ์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์‹๋ฌผ์›์— ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ„ ๋‹ค์Œ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์˜ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘์— ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด.