4. ์ž…์ด ํŠธ์ด๋Š” ์˜์–ด

24.09.09 โ€‹Looking After Stray Cats

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2024. 10. 9. 02:03

I am a father raising a child in Sejong City, and also a father figure to stray cats in the neighborhood.

์ €๋Š” ์„ธ์ข…์‹œ์—์„œ ํ•œ ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ์•„๋น ์ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋™๋„ค ๊ธธ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋“ค์˜ ์บฃ๋Œ€๋””์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* father figure : ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€ ์—ญํ• 

* stray cat : ๊ธธ๊ณ ์–‘์ด

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One day in the fall of 2017, I came across a mother cat and her little of four kittens near the recycling area of our apartment complex.

2017๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„ ์–ด๋Š ๋‚ , ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๋‹จ์ง€ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ์žฅ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์—์„œ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ์•„๊ธฐ ๊ณ ์–‘์ด ๋„ค ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์–ด๋ฏธ ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* come across : ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋‹ค

* little of four kittens : ์•„๊ธฐ ๊ณ ์–‘์ด ๋„ค ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ

* apartment complex : ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ๋‹จ์ง€

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They cried sadly, as if telling me they were hungry, so I started feeding them.

๋งˆ์น˜ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ํ”„๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋“ฏ ์Šฌํ”„๊ฒŒ ์šธ์–ด ๋Œ€์„œ ๋ฐฅ์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ,

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Five years have already passed since then.

๊ทธ ์ดํ›„๋กœ ๋ฒŒ์จ 5๋…„์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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My daily routine involves finishing dinner after work and then immediately going around the neighborhood to feed the cats.

ํ‡ด๊ทผ ํ›„ ์ €๋… ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* daily routine involves : ~์ด ์ผ์ƒ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜๋‹ค

* go around the neighborhood : ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋‹ค

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I give them food, water, and sometimes tasty treats.

์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ์™€ ๋ฌผ, ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ„์‹์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* treat : ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ„์‹, ํŠน์‹

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Every spring and fall, I have the cats spayed or neutered to prevent further population growth.

๋งค๋…„ ๋ด„, ๊ฐ€์„์—๋Š” ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ค‘์„ฑํ™” ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ์‹œ์ผœ ์ฃผ๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ฐœ์ฒด ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* spayed or neutered : ์ค‘์„ฑํ™” ์ˆ˜์ˆ ์„ ๋ฐ›์€

* population growth : ๊ฐœ์ฒด ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€

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Feeding them every single day can sometimes be physically exhausting.

ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ฐฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ฐ€๋”์€ ์ฒด๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํž˜์ด ๋“ค ๋•Œ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* every single day : ๋งค์ผ, ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋„ ๋น ์ง์—†์ด

* physically exhausting : ์ฒด๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํž˜๋“ 

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But seeing the cats eat their fill and greet me warmly has become a source of energy in my life!

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณ ์–‘์ด๋“ค์ด ๋ฐฐ๋ถ€๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ์ €๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ๋งž์•„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ œ ์‚ถ์˜ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

* eat one’s fill : ์–‘๊ป ๋จน๋‹ค

* greet someone warmly : ~๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘๊ฒŒ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋‹ค

* a source of energy : ํ™œ๋ ฅ์†Œ

 

 

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