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24.10.25 How does that work?

Mary : You know, I went to a tarot expert once.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ์žˆ์ž–์•„, ๋‚˜ ํƒ€๋กœ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ์  ์žˆ์–ด.* tarot expert : ํƒ€๋กœ์ ์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€โ€‹John : Really? How does that work?์กด : ์ •๋ง? ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๋ฐ?โ€‹Mary : The tarot expert asked me to focus on a question that was bothering me. Then I chose a few cards from the deck.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ํƒ€๋กœ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์ด ์“ฐ์ด๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ์ง‘์ค‘์„ ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ํ•œ ๋ฒŒ์˜ ์นด๋“œ ์ค‘์—์„œ ๋ช‡ ์žฅ์„ ๊ณจ๋ž์ง€. * bother : ์„ฑ๊ฐ€์‹œ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์“ฐ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค* deck : ์นด๋“œ ํ•œ ๋ฒŒ ..

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24.10.24 You learn and grow from them.

John : She also said there will be some tough times ahead.์กด : ๊ทธ๋ถ„์ด ๋˜ ๋งํ•˜๊ธธ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ํž˜๋“  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜.* tough times : ํž˜๋“  ์‹œ๊ธฐ, ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋•Œ* ahead : ์•ž์— ๋†“์ธ, ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์—โ€‹Mary : That's expected, John. Every business has its ups and downs.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ์•ผ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด์ž–์•„, ์กด. ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์ž˜๋  ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์•ˆ ๋  ๋•Œ๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.* expected : ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š”* ups and downs : ์ข‹์€ ๋•Œ์™€ ์•ˆ ์ข‹์€ ๋•Œ, ์ž˜๋  ๋•Œ์™€ ์ž˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๋•Œโ€‹John : I know, but what if I can't handle the tough times?์กด : ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ..

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24.10.23 I'm still a bit skeptical.

John : She asked for my birth date, birth year, and even my birth time.์กด : ๋‚ด ์ƒ๋…„์›”์ผ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๊ณ . ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์‹œ๋„.* birth date : ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๋‚ ์งœโ€‹Mary : Interesting.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋„ค.โ€‹John : She was pretty accurate with some details. I was surprised but tried not to let it show.์กด : ์–ด๋–ค ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„  ๋ฌด์ฒ™ ์ •ํ™•ํ–ˆ์–ด. ๋‚œ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋†€๋ž์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ฒ™ํ–ˆ์ง€.* accurate : ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ* let it show : ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹คโ€‹Mary : That's fascinating, John.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค. ์กด...

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24.10.22 I'm glad you feel positive.

John : I had my fortune told yesterday.์กด : ๋‚˜ ์–ด์ œ ์  ๋ดค์–ด.โ€‹Mary : Really? What did they say?๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ์ •๋ง? ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด?โ€‹John : This lady said many good things about my future.์กด : ๋‚ด ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๊ด€ํ•ด ์ข‹์€ ์–˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ํ•ด ์คฌ์–ด.โ€‹Mary : That's great to hear. I'm glad you feel positive.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ์™€, ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ์ •๋ง ์ž˜๋๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Š๋‚€๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ๋‹คํ–‰์ด์•ผ.* feel positive : ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Š๋ผ๋‹คโ€‹John : Yeah, she said I'll be successful... eventually.์กด : ์‘, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ํ•  ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด ์คฌ์–ด.* e..

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24.10.21 I don't believe in fortune tellers.

John : I was thinking of seeing a fortune teller. Do you think that's a good idea?์กด : ๋‚˜ ์ ์„ ๋ณด๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐˆ๊นŒ ์ƒ๊ฐ ์ค‘์ด์•ผ. ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ผ๊นŒ?* fortune teller : ์ ์Ÿ์ดโ€‹โ€‹Mary : Honestly, I don't believe in fortune tellers. They just tell you what you want to hear.๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ : ์†”์งํžˆ ๋‚œ ์ ์Ÿ์ด๋“ค์„ ๋ฏฟ์ง€ ์•Š์•„. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ƒ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งํ•ด ์ค„ ๋ฟ์ด์ž–์•„.* believe in : (~์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๋“ฑ์„) ๋ฏฟ๋‹คโ€‹โ€‹John : I don't know. I feel so insecure about the future. Maybe it will help..

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24.10.18 Kids are getting addicted.

Betty : This cellphone ban is necessary.๋ฒ ํ‹ฐ : ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ํœด๋Œ€ ์ „ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋„ค์š”. ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์ค‘๋…๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.โ€‹Tom : Kids are getting addicted. That's an exaggeration. Phones are just tools, Betty.ํ†ฐ : ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ข€ ๊ณผ์žฅ์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ์ „ํ™”๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋„๊ตฌ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด์ž–์•„์š”, ๋ฒ ํ‹ฐ.* getting addicted : ์ค‘๋…๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค‘์ธ * exaggeration : ๊ณผ์žฅโ€‹Betty : Tools that are leading to cyberbullying and social isolation!๋ฒ ํ‹ฐ : ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ดด๋กญํž˜๊ณผ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋„๊ตฌ์ธ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .* cyberbullying : ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„..

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24.10.26 Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?

Having a pet is more common than ever, with nearly two-thirds of American homes having at least one pet.๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ํ”ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, 2/3์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€์ •์—์„œ ์ ์–ด๋„ ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* ...than ever : ๊ทธ ์–ด๋Š๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค โ€‹And every year, more people are changing their minds about pets and opening their homes and hearts to animals.๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งค๋…„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ˜๋ ค๋™๋ฌผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ  ๋™๋ฌผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์ง‘๊ณผ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์—ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* change one's mind : ๋งˆ์Œ(..

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24.10.25 โ€‹Business Trip to Las Vegas: The Best Presentation of the Expo

Rachel : Welcome back! I hope the tech expo was a success.๋ ˆ์ด์ฒผ : ๋ณต๊ท€๋ฅผ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ด์š”! ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐ•๋žŒํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€‹Peter : Ron and I knocked it out of the park during our presentation.ํ”ผํ„ฐ : ๋ก ๊ณผ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์•„์ฃผ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋ƒˆ์–ด์š”.* knock it out of the park : (๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ) ์•„์ฃผ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋‚ด๋‹คโ€‹Rachel : I heard! A tech blogger said you two were, and I quote, "In sync with each other as though they were sharing one mind." ๋ ˆ์ด์ฒผ : ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”! ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด, ์ธ์šฉํ•˜..

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24.10.24 Grounding: So, You're a Believer?

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‹คโ€‹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™„์ ์ธโ€‹Doris : It was just an offhand remark. At the end of the class she said, "And now, l..

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

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Œโ€‹โ€‹Maria : Yeah, the last thing I need is to spend money I don't have.๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ์‘, ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋Š”..

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