7. Power English

24.10.16 The Noisy Neighbors: It Would Be Cheaper to Move

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 17. 21:55

Chad : When I lived in that noisy apartment, I couldn't complain to the city. They were following the laws about when they could and couldn't work.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฌ์šด ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ์— ์‚ด์•˜์„ ๋•Œ, ์‹œ์— ํ•ญ์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์–ด. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์–ธ์ œ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ•์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ .

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Maria : I tried to talk to the apartment manager, but it was like talking to a wall.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ธ๊ณผ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ด ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ฒฝ์— ๋Œ€๊ณ  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด.

* like talking to a wall : ๋ฒฝ์— ๋Œ€๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€, ๋ง์ด ์•ˆ ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š”

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Chad : It sounds like you're at the end of your rope.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ์†์ˆ˜๋ฌด์ฑ…์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

* at the end of one's rope : ํ•œ๊ณ„์— ๋ถ€๋”ชํžŒ, ์†์ˆ˜๋ฌด์ฑ…์ธ

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Maria : I am! And I'm tempted to take legal action against the apartment management company.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๋งž์•„! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฒ•์  ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ๋„ ๋“ค์–ด.

* tempt : ์œ ํ˜นํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋ถ€์ถ”๊ธฐ๋‹ค

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Chad : I know you're frustrated, but do you really want to go down that road?

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•œ ๊ฑด ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ •๋ง ๊ทธ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?

* I know you're..., but... : ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ~ํ•œ ๊ฑด ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ,...

* go down that road : ๊ทธ ๊ธธ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค, ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ํ–‰๋™ ๋ฐฉ์นจ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค

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Maria : No, because it would be cheaper to just move.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ์•„๋‹ˆ, ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ด์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ €๋ ดํ•  ํ…Œ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.