7. Power English

24.08.30 The Company Dress Code: These Rules Are a Breath of Fresh Air

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 13. 00:18

โ€‹Olivia : I was really surprised at how well most people followed the dress code.

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ณต์žฅ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ž˜ ์ง€์ผฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์— ์ •๋ง ๋†€๋ž์–ด.

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John : Yeah, me too. But there were a few exceptions, like Mark from marketing.

์กด : ์‘, ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ๋ž˜. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํŒ€์˜ ๋งˆํฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ.

* exception : ์˜ˆ์™ธ

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Olivia : Creative types like him want to express themselves in how they dress.

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ๊ทธ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ์œ ํ˜•๋“ค์€ ์˜ท์„ ์ž…๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜์ง€.

* express oneself : ๋Š๋‚€ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋‹ค, ์ž์‹ ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋‹ค

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John : He could have done it with a wacky tie or bright socks. His attitude that anything goes probably wasn't received well by the top brass.

์กด : ๋ณ„๋‚œ ๋„ฅํƒ€์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ์€ ์–‘๋ง๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์„ ํ…๋ฐ. ๋ญ๋“  ๋‹ค ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ํƒœ๋„๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ƒ๋ถ€์— ์ข‹๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์ง€์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.

* anything goes : ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด๋“  ํ—ˆ์šฉ๋˜๋‹ค

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Olivia : Yeah, he'll definitely be written up. I saw his department manager talking to him.

์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ๋งž์•„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช… ๋ณด๊ณ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ถ€์„œ์žฅ์ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๋ดค๊ฑฐ๋“ .

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John : Personally, I think these rules are a breath of fresh air.

์กด : ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋‚œ ์ด ๊ทœ์ •๋“ค์ด ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด.

* Personally,... : ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ, ~

* a breath of fresh air : ์‹ ์„ ํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ