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.
์ฑ๋ : ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์๋๋ฌ์ด ์ํํธ์ ์ด์์ ๋, ์์ ํญ์ํ ์ ์์์ด. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ธ์ ์ผํ ์ ์๊ณ ์ผํ ์ ์๋์ง์ ๋ํ ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๊ณ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ .
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Maria : I tried to talk to the apartment manager, but it was like talking to a wall.
๋ง๋ฆฌ์ : ์ํํธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ธ๊ณผ ์๊ธฐํด ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ, ๋ง์น ๋ฒฝ์ ๋๊ณ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ด.
* like talking to a wall : ๋ฒฝ์ ๋๊ณ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์, ๋ง์ด ์ ํตํ๋
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Chad : It sounds like you're at the end of your rope.
์ฑ๋ : ์์๋ฌด์ฑ ์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค.
* at the end of one's rope : ํ๊ณ์ ๋ถ๋ชํ, ์์๋ฌด์ฑ ์ธ
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Maria : I am! And I'm tempted to take legal action against the apartment management company.
๋ง๋ฆฌ์ : ๋ง์! ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ํํธ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์๋๋ก ๋ฒ์ ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ทจํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ง์๋ ๋ค์ด.
* tempt : ์ ํนํ๋ค, ๋ถ์ถ๊ธฐ๋ค
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Chad : I know you're frustrated, but do you really want to go down that road?
์ฑ๋ : ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ต๋ตํ ๊ฑด ์์ง๋ง, ์ ๋ง ๊ทธ ๊ธธ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ?
* I know you're..., but... : ๋ค๊ฐ ~ํ ๊ฑด ์์ง๋ง,...
* go down that road : ๊ทธ ๊ธธ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ค, ํน์ ํ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์นจ์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋ค
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Maria : No, because it would be cheaper to just move.
๋ง๋ฆฌ์ : ์๋, ์๋ํ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ด์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ ๋ ดํ ํ ๋๊น.
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