7. Power English

24.10.24 Grounding: So, You're a Believer?

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 26. 23:33

Doris : Hey, Luka! I joined a beach yoga class recently and the instructor brought up grounding.

๋„๋ฆฌ์Šค : ์•ˆ๋…•, ๋ฃจ์นด! ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ํ•ด๋ณ€ ์š”๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์—…์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋”ฉ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ์–ด.

* bring up (a topic) : (ํ™”์ œ๋ฅผ) ๊บผ๋‚ด๋‹ค

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Luka : They seem like complementary practices. What did the instructor say?

๋ฃจ์นด : ์ƒํ˜ธ ๋ณด์™„๋˜๋Š” ์—ฐ์Šต ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ. ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด?

* complementary : ์ƒํ˜ธ ๋ณด์™„์ ์ธ

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Doris : It was just an offhand remark. At the end of the class she said, "And now, let's ground ourselves by digging our toes in the sand.

๋„๋ฆฌ์Šค : ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ณ„ ์ƒ๊ฐ ์—†์ด ํ•œ ๋ง์ด์—ˆ์–ด. ์ˆ˜์—… ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์— ๊ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ "์ž ์ด์ œ ๋ฐœ๊ฐ€๋ฝ์„ ๋ชจ๋ž˜์— ํŒŒ๋ฌป์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋”ฉ์„ ํ•ฉ์‹œ๋‹ค."๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด.

* offhand remark : ๋ณ„ ์ƒ๊ฐ ์—†์ด ํ•œ ๋ง, ์ฆ‰์„ ๋ฐœ์–ธโ€‹

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Luka : It's been said that the beach has added benefits for grounding because of the salt water and the ozone in the air.

๋ฃจ์นด : ํ•ด๋ณ€์ด ์†Œ๊ธˆ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์ค‘์˜ ์˜ค์กด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋”ฉ์— ์ด์ ์„ ๋”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด.

* It's been said : ~๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค

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Doris : I don't doubt it. I felt really good after the class.

๋„๋ฆฌ์Šค : ๋ฏฟ์–ด ์˜์‹ฌ์น˜ ์•Š์•„. ์ˆ˜์—… ํ›„์— ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ .

* I don't doubt it : ๋ฏฟ์–ด ์˜์‹ฌ์น˜ ์•Š์•„

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Luka : So, you're a believer?

๋ฃจ์นด : ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ, ๋„ˆ๋„ ์ด์ œ ๋ฏฟ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?