Chad : Hey, Maria! You look well-rested for once.
์ฑ๋ : ์๋ , ๋ง๋ฆฌ์! ์ด๋ฒ์ ํน ์ฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด๋ค.
โ
Maria : Thanks, I am! When I decided that the worst-case scenario was that I would move out, I tried something less drastic.
๋ง๋ฆฌ์ : ๊ณ ๋ง์, ํน ์ฌ์์ด! ์ต์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ด์ฌ ๋๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋จํ์ ๋, ๋ญ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ทน๋จ์ ์ธ ๊ฑธ ์๋ํด ๋ดค์ด.
* worst-case scenario : ์ต์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ
* drastic : ๊ทน๋จ์ ์ธ
โ
Chad : That's good. What did you do?
์ฑ๋ : ์๋๋ค. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋๋ฐ?
โ
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.
๋ง๋ฆฌ์ : ์ด์๊ณผ ๋ด๊ฐ ํฉ์๋ฅผ ํ์ด. ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ๋ฌด ์ ํ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋งค์ผ 2์์์ 4์ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ์์ด๋ค์ ๊ณต์์ ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์ํ์ง.
* come to an understanding : ํฉ์์ ์ด๋ฅด๋คโ
โ
Chad : What about for the rest of the day?
์ฑ๋ : ๋จ์ ํ๋ฃจ ๋์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ?
โ
Maria : For that, I took your advice and got the noise-cancelling headphones and earbuds. It was money well-spent.
๋ง๋ฆฌ์ : ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋ค ์กฐ์ธ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ฌ ๋ ธ์ด์ฆ ์บ์ฌ๋ง ํค๋ํฐ๊ณผ ์ด์ดํฐ์ ์์ด. ๋ ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ํ์ด.
* For that,... : ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ผ๋ฉด, ~
* money well-spent : ์ ์ด ๋
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