7. Power English

24.09.06 Looking for Investors: Don't You Have a Rich Uncle?

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:14

Olivia : I heard you're thinking of expanding your business. Can you afford it right now?

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ๋„ค ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด. ๋‹น์žฅ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?

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John : I don't have enough money right now. But it's the best time to expand since I've cornered the market in my field.

์กด : ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์ž๊ธˆ์ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๋…์ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์ง€.

* corner the market : ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๋…์ ํ•˜๋‹ค

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Olivia : I guess you'll have to find an investor. Don't you have a rich uncle?

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค. ๋ถ€์ž ์‚ผ์ดŒ์ด ๊ณ„์‹œ์ง€ ์•Š์•„?

* I guess you'll have to... : ๋„ˆ ~ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„

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John : I've asked my family. Nobody has anything to spare right now, even Uncle Mike.

์กด : ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ดค์ง€. ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๋‹น์žฅ์€ ์—ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด, ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ์‚ผ์ดŒ์กฐ์ฐจ๋„.

* have something to spare : ์—ฌ๋ถ„์˜ ~์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค

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Olivia : What are you looking for in an investor?

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ํˆฌ์ž์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋ญ์•ผ?

โ€‹* investor : ํˆฌ์ž์ž

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John : Someone who will take a hands-off approach and let me run the company my way.

์กด : ๋ถˆ๊ฐ„์„ญ์ฃผ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์„ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด ๋ฐฉ์‹๋Œ€๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด ์ค„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด์ง€.

โ€‹* hands-off : ๋ถˆ๊ฐ„์„ญ์ฃผ์˜์˜

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