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24.10.21 Interesting Facts about Halloween (1)

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠฌ, ์‚ฌํƒ•, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ์‹ ์— ๋งค๋…„ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์“ด๋‹ค. ์–ด์ˆœ : ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š”, / ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์“ด๋‹ค ๋งค๋…„ / ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠฌ, ์‚ฌํƒ•, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ์‹๋“ค์—โ€‹* (๋ช…์‚ฌ)์— (๋ˆ)์„ ์“ฐ๋‹ค : spend (๋ˆ) + on (๋ช…์‚ฌ)* ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต์˜ (๋ช…์‚ฌ) : billions of (๋ช…์‚ฌ)* ๋งค๋…„ : annuallyโ€‹In the United States, people spend billions of dollars annually on custunes, candy, and decorationsโ€‹โ€‹์˜›๋‚ ์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์•…ํ•œ ์ •๋ น์„ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์น˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋ณ€์žฅํ•˜๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด์ˆœ : ์˜›๋‚ ์—๋Š”, / ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์„ ๋ณ€์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณค ํ–ˆ๋‹ค / ์‚ฌ์•…ํ•œ ์˜ํ˜ผ๋“ค์„ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์น˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด.โ€‹* ์˜›๋‚ ์—๋Š” : in olden times* ๋ณ€์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋‹ค ..

24.10.18 The Waiter Is Frustrated with the Way the Company Handled the Situation

ํž˜๋“  ๊ต๋Œ€ ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ง‘์— ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ, ์•„์ง๋„ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜. ์–ด์ˆœ : ๋‚œ ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ง‘์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์–ด / ํž˜๋“  ๊ต๋Œ€ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ํ›„์— / ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚œ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์”ฉ์”ฉ๋Œ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด. โ€‹* ์ง‘์— ์˜ค๋‹ค : get home* ๊ต๋Œ€ ๊ทผ๋ฌด : shift* (ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์„œ) ์”ฉ์”ฉ ๋Œ€๋‹ค : fumeโ€‹I just got home after a tought shift, and I'm still fuming. โ€‹โ€‹๊ณ„์† ์Šคํ‘ผ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ์†๋‹˜์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ ค๊ณ  ๋‚œ ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ–ˆ์–ด. ์–ด์ˆœ : ๋‚œ ๋‚ด ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ์–ด / ์†๋‹˜์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด / ๊ณ„์† ์Šคํ‘ผ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋Š”โ€‹I tried my best to handle a customer who kept asking for a spoon.โ€‹โ€‹๊ทธ๋ถ„์ด ์—„์ฒญ ๊ณจ์น˜ ์•„ํ”„๊ฒŒ ๊ตด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋„ ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด. ์–ด์ˆœ : ๊ทธ..

24.11.01 Americans Cut Back on Travel amid Rising Costs

Recent reports indicate a decline in American leisure travel plans for the upcoming summer season. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ํœด๊ฐ€์ฒ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์ถ•์†Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. * indicate : โ‹ฏ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋‹ค, ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋‹ค* upcoming : ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š”, ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ•œโ€‹The number of trips per person has decreased, with more individuals opting to skip vacations entirely. 1์ธ๋‹น ์—ฌํ–‰ ํšŸ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์•„์˜ˆ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๋›ฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋„ ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. * opt to do something : โ‹ฏํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค* entirely : ..

24.10.31 Cloud Security Startup Rejects Google's Multibillion-Dollar Offer

Rapidly growing cloud security startup, Wiz, has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google, opting instead to pursue its original plan of an initial public offering. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ธ‰์„ฑ์žฅ ์ค‘์ธ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… '์œ„์ฆˆ'๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ 230์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ธ์ˆ˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ€์‹  ๋‹น์ดˆ ๊ณ„ํšํ–ˆ๋˜ IPO๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * turn somebody/something down : ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋‹ค* acquisition : ํš๋“, ์ž…์ˆ˜, ์ธ์ˆ˜* opt to do something : โ‹ฏํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋‹ค* pursue : ์„ ๊ณ„์† ํ•ด๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋‹ค, ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋‹ค, ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜..

24.10.30 Harris Unveils "Opportunity Economy" Plan for Middle Class

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic presidential nominee, has outlined her vision for an "opportunity economy" focusing on reducing costs for middle-class families. ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ๋Œ€์„  ํ›„๋ณด ์นด๋ฉœ๋ผ ํ•ด๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋ถ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์ค‘์‚ฐ์ธต ๊ฐ€์ •์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ณ„ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘” '๊ธฐํšŒ ๊ฒฝ์ œ' ๋น„์ „์˜ ๊ฐœ์š”๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * Democratic : (๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜) ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์˜, ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š”* outline : โ‹ฏ์˜ ๊ฐœ์š”๋ฅผ ์„œ์ˆ ํ•˜๋‹ค, โ‹ฏ์˜ ์š”์ ๋งŒ ๋“ค๋‹คโ€‹Her plan aims to lower expenses in key areas such as food, housing, healthcar..

24.10.29 Starbucks Appoints a New CEO

Starbucks has announced a substantial compensation package for its incoming CEO Brian Niccol, ์Šคํƒ€๋ฒ…์Šค๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ž„ CEO๋กœ ๋‚ด์ •๋œ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋‹ˆ์ฝœ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง€๊ธ‰๋  ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ณด์ƒ ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * substantial : ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ, ๊ฝค ๋งŽ์€* compensation : ๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ, ๋ณด์ƒ๊ธˆ, (๋‚˜์œ ์ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ) ๋ณด์ƒ, ๋ณด์ถฉโ€‹who is set to join the company from Chipotle.๋‹ˆ์ฝœ์€ ์น˜ํด๋ ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์Šคํƒ€๋ฒ…์Šค์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค. * set to do something : โ‹ฏํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋œโ€‹The package includes a $10 million cash bonus and $75 million in equity awa..

24.10.28 The Evolving Landscape of Work Environment Preferences

Workplace engagement has stagnated, with only a third of employees fully engaged in their work. ์ง์žฅ ๋‚ด ๋ชฐ์ž…๋„๊ฐ€ ์ •์ฒด๊ธฐ์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž์˜ 1/3๋งŒ์ด ์—…๋ฌด์— ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ชฐ์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. * workplace : ์ผํ„ฐ, ์ง์žฅ* engagement : (๋ณดํ†ต ์ •์น˜์  ์˜๋ฏธ์˜) (์ ๊ทน์ ) ์ฐธ์—ฌ, ๊ด€์—ฌ* stagnate : ์นจ์ฒด๋˜๋‹ค, ์ •์ฒด๋˜๋‹ค, ๋ถ€์ง„ํ•˜๋‹ค* engage in something : ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹New trends like "quiet quitting" and "coffee badging" have emerged, reflecting a growing detachment from the office..

24.10.25 Meta Unveils Llama 3.1: A New Era in Open-Source

Meta has introduced Llama 3.1, its latest open-source artificial intelligence model. ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ตœ์‹ ์˜ ์˜คํ”ˆ ์†Œ์Šค ์ธ๊ณต ์ง€๋Šฅ ๋ชจ๋ธ '๋ผ๋งˆ 3.1'์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * latest : ์ตœ์‹ ์˜, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜โ€‹Available in three versions, including the company's largest and most capable AI model to date, Llama 3.1 continues Meta's dedication to free accessibility. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ AI๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ„์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋Š” ๋ผ๋งˆ 3.1์€ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์ด์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค. * availabl..

24.10.24 Southwest Airlines Revolutionizes Its Business Model

Southwest Airlines is set to implement significant changes to its long-standing business practices. ์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค์›จ์ŠคํŠธ ํ•ญ๊ณต์ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด ์˜จ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ค„ ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค. * set to do something : โ‹ฏํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋œ* implement : ์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค* significant : (์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ผ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ์ •๋„๋กœ) ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ, ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š”, ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ* long-standing : ์˜ˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žˆ๋˜* practice : ๊ด€ํ–‰, ๊ด€์Šตโ€‹The carrier plans to introduce assigned seating and offer extra legroom options, moving away from..

24.10.23 China's Electric Vehicle Revolution: A New Era in Auto Sales

China has reached a significant milestone in its automotive industry, with new energy vehicles (NEVs) surpassing traditional fuel-powered cars in monthly sales. ์ค‘๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์‹ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ž๋™์ฐจ(NEV)์˜ ์›”๊ฐ„ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰์ด ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์—ฐ ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ์ž๋™์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ๋ฉด์„œ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ์‚ฐ์—…์ด ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * reach : ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋‹ค, ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ค* significant : (์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ผ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ์ •๋„๋กœ) ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ, ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š”, ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ * milestone : (์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒโˆ™๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์ƒ ๋“ฑ์˜) ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ฑด, ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ[ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ] ์‚ฌ๊ฑด* automotive : ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜, ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๊ด€๋ จ์˜* surpas..