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24.09.11 Asking Someone Out: How Can I Tell If She Likes Me?

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Ian : Melinda, how can I tell if Sandra likes me or not?

์ด์•ˆ : ๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค, ์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚  ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•„๋‹Œ์ง€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?

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Melinda : You can tell by her body language. Does she cross her arms a lot or avoid eye contact?

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ๊ฑ”์˜ ๋ณด๋””๋žญ๊ท€์ง€๋กœ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด. ๊ฑ”๊ฐ€ ํŒ”์งฑ์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ผ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์„œ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฑธ ํ”ผํ•˜๋‹ˆ?

* eye contact : ๋ˆˆ๋งž์ถค

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Ian : No, neither. But I'm scared to death that she thinks of me as a brother.

์ด์•ˆ : ์•„๋‹ˆ, ๋‘˜ ๋‹ค ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ฑ”๊ฐ€ ๋‚  ํ˜•์ œ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ• ๊นŒ ๋ด ๊ฒ๋‚˜ ์ฃฝ๊ฒ ์–ด.

* scared to death : ์ฃฝ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ฌด์„œ์šด

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Melinda : I have an idea: I'll watch you two interact and then I'll tell you what I observed.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์ข‹์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ์žˆ์–ด. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆํฌ ๋‘˜์ด ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณธ ๋‹ค์Œ ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•œ ๊ฑธ ๋งํ•ด ์ค„๊ฒŒ.

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Ian : It would put my mind at ease if I knew I wasn't making a huge mistake.

์ด์•ˆ : ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํฐ ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ €์ง€๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์•ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋†“์ผ ํ…๋ฐ.

* put someone's mind at ease : ~ ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์‹œํ‚ค๋‹ค

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Melinda : I promise, I won't steer you wrong!

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์•ฝ์†ํ• ๊ฒŒ, ๋„ ์—‰๋šฑํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ์ง„ ์•Š์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ!

* I promise, ... : ์•ฝ์†ํ• ๊ฒŒ, ~

* steer someone wrong : ~ ๋ฅผ ์ž˜๋ชป๋œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ๋‹ค

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