7. Power English

24.10.30 โ€‹The Noisy Neighbors: We Came to an Understanding

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 11. 2. 10:40

Chad : Hey, Maria! You look well-rested for once.

์ฑ„๋“œ : ์•ˆ๋…•, ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„! ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ํ‘น ์‰ฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋„ค.

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Maria : Thanks, I am! When I decided that the worst-case scenario was that I would move out, I tried something less drastic.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ, ํ‘น ์‰ฌ์—ˆ์–ด! ์ตœ์•…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด์‚ฌ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ทน๋‹จ์ ์ธ ๊ฑธ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ดค์–ด.

* worst-case scenario : ์ตœ์•…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ

* drastic : ๊ทน๋‹จ์ ์ธ

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Chad : That's good. What did you do?

์ฑ„๋“œ : ์ž˜๋๋„ค. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ?

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Maria : My neighbor and I came to an understanding. She agreed to take her kids to the park between 2 and 4 every day when I have business calls.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ์ด์›ƒ๊ณผ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•ฉ์˜๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์–ด. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์—…๋ฌด ์ „ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์ผ 2์‹œ์—์„œ 4์‹œ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ๊ณต์›์— ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋™์˜ํ–ˆ์ง€.

* come to an understanding : ํ•ฉ์˜์— ์ด๋ฅด๋‹คโ€‹

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Chad : What about for the rest of the day?

์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋‚จ์€ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋™์•ˆ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ ?

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Maria : For that, I took your advice and got the noise-cancelling headphones and earbuds. It was money well-spent.

๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋„ค ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ ์บ”์Šฌ๋ง ํ—ค๋“œํฐ๊ณผ ์ด์–ดํฐ์„ ์ƒ€์–ด. ๋ˆ ์“ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ํ–ˆ์–ด.

* For that,... : ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ผ๋ฉด, ~

* money well-spent : ์ž˜ ์“ด ๋ˆ