7. Power English

24.10.23 The Noisy Neighbors: When I Couldn't Stand It Anymore...

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 26. 23:31

Maria : What did you finally do about the noise at your previous apartment?

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๋„ค ์ด์ „ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ์˜ ์†Œ์Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์–ด?

โ€‹

Chad : When I couldn't stand it anymore, I researched soundproofing my apartment. But that was too expensive.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ฐธ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๋ฐฉ์Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ์•„๋ดค์–ด. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋น„์ŒŒ์ง€.

* stand it : ์ฐธ๋‹ค, ๊ฒฌ๋””๋‹ค

* soundproofing : ๋ฐฉ์Œ

โ€‹โ€‹

Maria : Yeah, the last thing I need is to spend money I don't have.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ์‘, ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ˆ์„ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด.

* The last thing I need... : ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ผ์€ ~

โ€‹

Chad : Anyway, I came across these noise-cancelling headphones. But they were kind of bulky.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ์–ด์จŒ๋“ , ์ด ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ ์บ”์Šฌ๋ง ํ—ค๋“œํฐ์„ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ์ง€. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๋ถ€ํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ์ปธ์–ด.

* come across something : ~ ์„ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๋‹ค

โ€‹

Maria : They sound like a good solution for the day, but I also need something for nighttime.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๋‚ฎ์—๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ๋‚œ ๋ฐค์—๋„ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ด.

โ€‹

Chad : I bought a pair of earbuds that are comfortable to sleep in and met my needs.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ž๊ธฐ ํŽธํ•œ ์ด์–ดํฐ์„ ์ƒ€๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•„์š”์— ๋งž์•˜์–ด.

* meet one's needs : ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๋‹ค, ํ•„์š”์— ๋งž์ถ”๋‹ค