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24.09.25 โ€‹Asking Someone Out: That Was Pretty Smooth!

Ian : Guess what! I asked Sandra out on a date and she said yes!์ด์•ˆ : ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋๊ฒŒ! ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ๋“œ๋ผ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„ ํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ๊ฑ”๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด!โ€‹Melinda : That's exciting! I guess you took my advice when I said you should be yourself.๋ฉœ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค : ์ •๋ง ์‹ ๋‚œ๋‹ค! ํ‰์†Œ ๋„ค ๋ชจ์Šต๋Œ€๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‚ด ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค.โ€‹* be oneself : ํ‰์†Œ์˜ ์ž๊ธฐ ๋ชจ์Šต ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์ด๋‹คโ€‹Ian : I was pretty nervous. But when Sandra said yes, she told me that she'd been hoping I'd ask her out for months!์ด์•ˆ..

7. Power English 2024.10.13

24.09.26 Please Stop Snoring!: You Look Well Rested

โ€‹Gia : You look well rested!์ง€์•„ : ๋‹น์‹  ํ‘น ์‰ฐ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋„ค!* well-rested : ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ํœด์‹์„ ์ทจํ•œโ€‹Howard : I am! My sleep app said I only snored for five minutes last night.ํ•˜์›Œ๋“œ : ์ž˜ ์‰ฌ์—ˆ์–ด! ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์•ฑ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์–ด์ ฏ๋ฐค์— ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ 5๋ถ„ ๋™์•ˆ๋งŒ ์ฝ”๋ฅผ ๊ณจ์•˜๋Œ€.โ€‹Gia : That's amazing!์ง€์•„ : ๋†€๋ž๋„ค!โ€‹Howard : Snoring creates a vicious cycle where I'm too tired to exercise, which causes me to gain weight and snore more, leaving me even more tired.ํ•˜์›Œ๋“œ : ์ฝ”๊ณจ์ด๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ด์„œ ์šด๋™์„ ํ• ..

7. Power English 2024.10.13

24.09.27 Looking for Investors: It Checked All the Right Boxes

Olivia : Did you get an answer from that potential investor you told me about?์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋น„์•„ : ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ์ž ์žฌ์  ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ต๋ณ€ ๋ฐ›์•˜์–ด?* potential : ์ž ์žฌ์ ์ธโ€‹John : He said my business checked all the right boxes for him and he would be a fool not to invest.์กด : ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”๊ตฌ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋ฆฌ์„์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ผ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์–ด.* check/tick all the (right) boxes : ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”๊ตฌ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค* would be a fool to ... / not to ... : ~ ํ•˜๋ฉด/ ~ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด..

7. Power English 2024.10.13

24.10.12 More Americans Are Saying No to Having Kids

A survey of American women shows that a growing numberโ€‹ do not want to have children. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์„ค๋ฌธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* a growing number... : ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜ โ€‹In fact, the number has climbed 10 percent since 2018. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 2018๋…„ ์ดํ›„๋กœ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€‹The researchers โ€‹broke down the reasons given, which included 57 percent who said they simply didn't want children. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์ด์œ ๋“ค์„..

7. Power English 2024.10.12

24.10.11 Business Trip to Las Vegas: Did You Clear It with Accounting?

Peter : Rachel, did someone book my flight for Las Vegas? The expo kicks off on Saturday, right? ํ”ผํ„ฐ : ๋ ˆ์ด์ฒผ, ์ €์˜ ๋ผ์Šค๋ฒ ์ด๊ฑฐ์Šคํ–‰ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋ฐ•๋žŒํšŒ๊ฐ€ ํ† ์š”์ผ์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ๋งž์ฃ ? * kick off : ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋‹ค Rachel : Yes, but the flight Ron is on is fully booked, so you may have to go a day early. ๋ ˆ์ด์ฒผ : ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ก ์ด ํƒ€๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์ด ๊ฝ‰ ์ฐจ์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ผ์ฐ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. Peter : Did you clear it with the accounting department? ํ”ผํ„ฐ : ํšŒ๊ณ„ํŒ€์— ์Šน์ธ์„..

7. Power English 2024.10.11

24.10.10 Grounding: I'll Try to Have an Open Mind

Luka : Did you take a look at my friend's blog on grounding? ๋ฃจ์นด : ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋”ฉ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋‚ด ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ๋ดค์–ด? Doris : I did. It was really informative, so I'll try to have an open mind about it. ๋„๋ฆฌ์Šค : ๋ดค์–ด. ์ •๋ง ์œ ์ตํ–ˆ์–ด, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ด. * informative : ์œ ์ตํ•œ * open mind : ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๋งˆ์Œ Luka : What made you change your tune? ๋ฃจ์นด : ์™œ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ? * change one's tune : ํƒœ๋„๋ฅผ[์ƒ๊ฐ์„] ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋‹ค Doris : I decided that walking around on the ..

7. Power English 2024.10.10

24.10.09 โ€‹The Noisy Neighbors: You Should Go Easy on Her

Chad : How are your noisy neighbors?์ฑ„๋“œ : ๋„ค ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ด์›ƒ์€ ์ข€ ์–ด๋•Œ?โ€‹Maria : Well, I talked to her the other day and explained my situation, but she brushed it offโ€‹. ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ : ๊ธ€์Ž„, ์ผ์ „์— ๊ทธ๋…€๋ž‘ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋‚ด ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฌต์‚ดํ•ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด.* brush something off : ~์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Chad : You should go easy on her. It can't be easy having three little children in an apartment.์ฑ„๋“œ : ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ. ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ์—์„œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์•„์ด ์…‹์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์‰ฌ์šธ ๋ฆฌ ์—†์ž–์•„.* go easy on someo..

7. Power English 2024.10.09

24.10.08 Weekend Getaway: I Can't Wait for Friday!

Christina : I booked the Hemingway suite at the Williams Bay B&B for the weekend. That's the one with the hot tub on the balcony.ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋‚˜ : ์ฃผ๋ง ๋™์•ˆ ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„์Šค ๋ฒ ์ด ๋น„์•ค๋น„์˜ ํ—ค๋ฐ์›จ์ด ์Šค์œ„ํŠธ๋ฃธ์„ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ–ˆ์–ด. ๋ฐœ์ฝ”๋‹ˆ์— ์˜จ์ˆ˜ ์š•์กฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ์ด์•ผ.* balcony (vs. veranda) : ๋ฐœ์ฝ”๋‹ˆ (vs. ๋ฒ ๋ž€๋‹ค)โ€‹โ€‹Brandon : That's great! Everything else in town pales in comparison.๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“  : ์ž˜ํ–ˆ์–ด! ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณณ์€ ๊ทธ์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€.* pale in comparison : (~ ์•ž์—์„œ) ๋ฌด์ƒ‰ํ•ด์ง€๋‹ค, (~๋ณด๋‹ค) ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Christi..

7. Power English 2024.10.08

24.10.07 โ€‹Constant Snacking: I Can't Seem to Lose Weight

Paul : I don't know why I can't seem to lose weight. I work out three times a week and walk every day. ํด : ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์™œ ์‚ด์ด ์•ˆ ๋น ์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด. ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์— ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ ์šด๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์ผ ๊ฑท๋Š”๋ฐ. Andrea : If you're exercising, then it comes down to what you're eating. You're consuming more calories than you're burning. ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ ˆ์•„ : ์šด๋™์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋จน๋Š”์ง€์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ์–ด. ๋„Œ ์†Œ๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ. * come down to something : ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ~์œผ๋กœ ์š”์•ฝ๋˜๋‹ค * burn : ํƒœ์šฐ๋‹ค, ..

7. Power English 2024.10.07

24.09.28 People with no inner dialog

For many people, the sound of a voice in their head is part of everyday life.๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์—์„œ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์ƒํ™œ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* For many people, ... : ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ~This inner voice tells us to wash the dishes, avoid the car ahead, or remember to pay our phone bill, andit has gained our trust.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ค๊ฑฐ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ , ์•ž์ชฝ์˜ ์ž๋™์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ , ๋˜๋Š” ์ „ํ™” ์š”๊ธˆ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* inner voice : ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ* gain some..

7. Power English 2024.10.05