7. Power English

24.09.04 Asking Someone Out: I'm Really Nervous!

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:15

Melinda : Hey, Ian! Did you just run here from home? You're sweating a lot.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์•ˆ๋…•, ์ด์•ˆ! ์ง‘์—์„œ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋›ฐ์–ด์™”์–ด? ๋•€์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํ˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋„ค.

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Ian : No, I'm just really nervous. I want to ask Sandra out, but I'm afraid she'll say no.

์ด์•ˆ : ์•„๋‹ˆ, ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธด์žฅ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ๋ž˜. ์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ, ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ• ๊นŒ ๋ด ๋‘๋ ค์›Œ.

* ask someone out : ~ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋‹ค

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Melinda : Haven't you two been friends for like five years?

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ๋„ˆํฌ ๋‘˜์ด 5๋…„ ์ •๋„ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€์ง€ ์•Š์•„?

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Ian : That's the problem. I'm afraid I might be in the friend zone with her. I mean, it sometimes feels like we're flirting, but maybe I'm wrong.

์ด์•ˆ : ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋ฌธ์ œ์•ผ. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฑ”์™€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์นœ๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์ด์ผ๊นŒ ๋ด. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ, ๊ฐ€๋” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ธ ํƒ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋Š๊ปด์ง€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๋‚ด ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ํ‹€๋ฆด์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ.

* friend zone : (์—ฐ์ธ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ) ์นœ๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์ด

โ€‹* flirting : ์ž‘์—… ๊ฑธ๊ธฐ, ์œ ํ˜น

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Melinda : There's only one way to find out, you just have to take the plunge.

๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฟ์ด์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ณผ๊ฐํžˆ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ค์–ด์•ผ ํ•ด.

* take the plunge : ๊ณผ๊ฐํžˆ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“ค๋‹ค, ๋‹จํ–‰์„ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹

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Ian : What if she says no? Can we still be friends?

์ด์•ˆ : ๊ฑ”๊ฐ€ ์‹ซ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋–กํ•ด? ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋กœ ๋‚จ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?

* What if ... ? : ~ ๋ฉด ์–ด์ฉŒ์ง€?