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25.01.23 Mom's wake up call: the elephant in the room ์—„๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ข…: ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์•Œ์ง€๋งŒ ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ ๊บผ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ

Mia: You know, Mom seemed a bit scared today coming home from the hospital. ์žˆ์ž–์•„, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์—„๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ํ‡ด์›ํ•ด์„œ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฌ ๋•Œ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜์–ด.Lucas I think hospitals scare everyone. ๋ณ‘์›์€ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ๊ฒ๋จน๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„.Mia: But she was willing to talk about everything with us. I think she wanted to ease our minds. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ์–ด. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์‹œ์ผœ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์…จ๋‚˜ ๋ด. * ease one's mind : ~์„ ์•ˆ์‹ฌ์‹œํ‚ค๋‹ค, ~์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‹คLucas : Well, she woul..

7. Power English 2025.01.23

25.01.22 Getting Tickets for the Concert: We Still Have One More Chance ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ: ์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์•„์ง ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ์žˆ์–ด

Chad: Veronica, how much can you put towards the concert tickets? ๋ฒ ๋กœ๋‹ˆ์นด, ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํƒœ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด?Veronica: Nothing. You know I'm dead broke until I get paid next week. ์ „ํ˜€. ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์— ์›”๊ธ‰์„ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋นˆํ„ธํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ ๊ฑฐ ์•Œ์ž–์•„. * dead broke : ํ•œ ํ‘ผ๋„ ์—†๋Š”, ๋นˆํ„ธํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์ธ  Chad: No problem. I found tickets for $275 each, but they're for nosebleed seats. ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„, ํ•œ ์žฅ์— 275๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ธ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋งจ ๋’ท์ž๋ฆฌ์•ผ. *nosebleed seats: ๋งจ ๋’ท์ขŒ์„  Veronica : I know you..

7. Power English 2025.01.23

25.01.21 We're cool. ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.

A:I didn't mean to take your spot. ๋‹น์‹  ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•  ์˜๋„๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.B : No worries. We're cool. ๊ฑฑ์ • ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”. ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„์š”.A: Thanks. ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ์š”.  ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋”~์ž˜ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฑ…์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•ด์„œ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ~์”ฌ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ~ํ•˜์„ธ์š”~ ์ˆ ์ˆ ์ˆ  ์˜์–ด๋ง~์ž˜~ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ์ฒœ์‚ฌ๋‹˜๐Ÿ˜‡๋“ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~ ํŒŒ์›Œ์ž‰๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์‹œ ๊ต์žฌ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ฒ˜~~~๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›~~~  ์œ„ ๋งํฌ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๋งค์‹œ ์ฟ ํŒกํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ผ์ •์•ก์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~~ ์ฒœ์‚ฌ๐Ÿ˜‡๋‹˜๋“ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์ˆ˜์ต ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~~  ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ปดํŒจ์…˜ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ๋„์šธ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ํ–‰๋ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค~๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’›

7. Power English 2025.01.21

25.01.18 Your Ability to Balance on One Leg Can Determine Your Real Age ํ•œ์ชฝ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์žก๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์‹ค์ œ ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค

When we're younger, we take our ability to balance for granted. ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ท ํ˜• ์žก๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * โ€‹take something/someone for granted : ~์„ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•œ ์ผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹ค, ~์„ ๋Œ€์ˆ˜๋กญ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹คโ€‹In fact, we rarely give it a second thought. ์‚ฌ์‹ค, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณฐ๊ณฐ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ์ผ๋„ ๋“œ๋ญ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * give something/someone a second thought : ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค, ๊ณฐ๊ณฐ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋‹คโ€‹But as we age, our ability to stand on one leg and balance ourself may determine our tr..

7. Power English 2025.01.19

5.01.17 Taxi cab conversations: It's nice to shoot to breeze ํƒ์‹œ์—์„œ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”: ์ˆ˜๋‹ค ๋– ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›Œ์š”

Thomas : You know, it's nice to shoot the breeze with passengers sometimes.โ€‹์žˆ์ž–์•„์š”, ๊ฐ€๋” ์Šน๊ฐ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋– ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์•„์š”.* shoot the breeze with : ์žก๋‹ด์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ˆ˜๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋–จ๋‹ค* passenger : ์Šน๊ฐโ€‹Brianne : Doesn't everyone want to talk to you? I've enjoyed this ride a lot because of our conversation.โ€‹๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋‹˜๊ณผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜์š”? ์ €๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ด ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์•„์ฃผ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ํƒ”์–ด์š”.โ€‹Thomas : No, most people have their faces in there phones or have music in..

7. Power English 2025.01.19

25.01.16 Mom's Wake-Up Call: She Spent Her Life Taking Care of Us and Dad ์—„๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ข…: ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ํ‰์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์•„๋น ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ง€๋ƒˆ์–ด

โ€‹Mia : Mom got angry with when I asked if she was still okay living on her own.โ€‹์—„๋งˆํ•œํ…Œ ์•„์ง๋„ ํ˜ผ์ž ์‚ฌ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์€์ง€ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚ด์…จ์–ด.* on her own : ๊ทธ๋…€ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œโ€‹Lucas : I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but she spent her life taking care of us and Dad. She isn't used to anyone taking care of her.โ€‹๊ฐ™์€ ๋ง์„ ๋˜ํ’€์ดํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ํ‰์ƒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ์•„๋น ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ์…จ์–ด. ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋Œ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์—” ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์…”.* sound like a broken record : ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ง์„ ๋˜ํ’€์ดํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Mi..

7. Power English 2025.01.19

25.01.15 Getting tickets for the concert: I'm not ready to admit defeat! ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ: ํŒจ๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ•  ์ค€๋น„๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋์–ด

Veronica : How's the search for concert ticket going? ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด?โ€‹Chad : I think I'm losing my mind trying to find reasonably priced tickets. The cheapest ones are three times the original price.์ ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์˜ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์„ ์ฐพ๋Š๋ผ ๋ฏธ์ณ ๋ฒ„๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์ด ์›๋ž˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์˜ ์„ธ ๋ฐฐ์•ผ.โ€‹* lose one's mind : ๋ฏธ์น˜๋‹ค, ์‹ค์„ฑํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Veronica : Maybe seeing Big John in concert is not in the cards for us.โ€‹์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ์—์„œ ๋น… ์กด์„ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒ ์ด๋ค„์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‚˜๋ด...

7. Power English 2025.01.16

25.01.14 Hitting the slopes: It Comes Easy to me ์Šค๋…ธ๋ณด๋“œ ํƒ€๊ธฐ: ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์‰ฌ์šด ์ผ์ด์•ผ

David : That was a challenging run! I didn't realize how good you are on a snowboard.โ€‹ํž˜๋“  ํ™œ๊ฐ•์ด์—ˆ์–ด! ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์Šค๋…ธ๋ณด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ํƒ€๋Š”์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋„ค.โ€‹Kaylee : It comes easy to me since I grew up skateboarding and surfing in California.์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์—์„œ ์Šค์ผ€์ดํŠธ๋ณด๋“œ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  ์„œํ•‘์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ž๋ž๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์‰ฌ์šด ์ผ์ด์•ผ.* come easy to someone : ~ ์—๊ฒŒ ์‰ฝ๋‹คโ€‹David : I pride myself on my skiing ability, but you're making me reconsider my opinion of myself.๋‚œ ๋‚ด ์Šคํ‚ค ์‹ค๋ ฅ์— ์ž๋ถ€์‹ฌ์„ ..

7. Power English 2025.01.14

25.01.13 The Cooking Class: I Had to Swallow My Prideโ€‹ ์š”๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์—…: ์ž์กด์‹ฌ์„ ๋ฒ„๋ ค์•ผ ํ–ˆ์–ด

Melinda : How is your cooking class going, Cyrus?โ€‹์š”๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜์—… ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด, ์‚ฌ์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค?โ€‹Cyrus : I think it was a step in the right direction for me. I've learned a lot in just two classes.โ€‹์ด๊ฑด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ฑธ์Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด. ๋‹จ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ์ˆ˜์—…์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ์–ด.* a step in the right direction : ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ•œ ๊ฑธ์Œ* in just : ๋‹จ ~ ๋งŒ์—โ€‹Melinda : It sounds like you can finally stand on your own two feet and not have to rely on r..

7. Power English 2025.01.13

25.01.11 Using Your Phone in Bed Is Probably Bad for Your Health ์นจ๋Œ€์—์„œ์˜ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์€ ์‹ญ์ค‘ํŒ”๊ตฌ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ์•ˆ ์ข‹๋‹ค

We've all heard the warnings against keeping a phone in our room because of EMFs and the sleep-destroying blue light from the screens. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘๋Š” ์ „์žํŒŒ์™€ ํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š” ์ฒญ์ƒ‰๊ด‘ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐฉ์— ๋‘์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค. โ€‹* EMFs (electromagnetic fields) : ์ „์ž๊ธฐ์žฅโ€‹But there is a new reason to keep the phone out of our beds that you should pay attention to: harmful bacteria. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์นจ์‹ค์— ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ๋‘์ง€ ๋ง์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์˜ํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ..

7. Power English 2025.01.12