EBS Program 475

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

24.08.15 It's worth every bite

Jane : Sam, have you ever tried gelato in Italy?์ œ์ธ : ์ƒ˜, ์ดํƒˆ๋ฆฌ์•„์—์„œ ์ ค๋ผ๋˜ ๋จน์–ด ๋ณธ ์  ์žˆ์–ด?* gelato : ์ ค๋ผ๋˜โ€‹โ€‹Sam : No, I haven't. How was it?์ƒ˜ : ์•„๋‹ˆ. ์•„์ง. ์–ด๋• ์–ด?โ€‹Jane : It was incredible! I had this pistachio flavor that was out of this world.์ œ์ธ : ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ง‰ํ˜”์–ด! ๋‚œ ํ”ผ์Šคํƒ€์น˜์˜ค ๋ง›์„ ๋จน์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ ๋ง›์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋”๋ผ๊ณ .* pistachio flavor : ํ”ผ์Šคํƒ€์น˜์˜ค์˜ ๋ง›* out of this world : ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ ๋ง›์ด ์•„๋‹Œ, ๋Œ€๋‹จํžˆ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹์€โ€‹Sam : That sounds amazing. I'll have to try it when I vi..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.16 That's a lot of work.

Jane : What's been keeping you so busy lately?์ œ์ธ : ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋ญฃ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฐ”์œ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?โ€‹Sam : I've been working two jobs to save up for a trip to Europe this winter.์ƒ˜ : ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฒจ์šธ์— ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ฐ€๋ ค๊ณ  ๋ˆ์„ ๋ชจ์œผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ผ์„ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ ๋›ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด.* save up for : ~๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์ €์ถ•ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Jane : Two jobs? That sounds intense. What are you doing?์ œ์ธ : ๋‘ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ? ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์„ผ๋ฐ. ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ?* intense : ๊ฐ•๋„๊ฐ€ ์„ผโ€‹โ€‹Sam : During the day, I work at a cafe, and in the evenings, I do some..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.19 Who officiated the wedding?

Harry : I went to my cousin's wedding last weekend.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๋‚˜, ์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ๋ง์— ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ์ดŒ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์‹์— ๊ฐ”์—ˆ์–ด.* cousin : ์‚ฌ์ดŒโ€‹Jane : How was it? I've never been to a wedding ceremony in Korea.์ œ์ธ : ์–ด๋• ์–ด? ๋‚œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์‹์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋„ ๋ชป ๊ฐ€ ๋ดค์–ด.* wedding ceremony : ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์‹โ€‹Harry : It was fantastic. The venue was beautiful, and the ceremony was lovely.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ์•„์ฃผ ๋ฉ‹์กŒ์–ด. ์‹์žฅ๋„ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์› ๊ณ  ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์‹๋„ ์ฐธ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์–ด.* venue : ํ–‰์‚ฌ์žฅโ€‹โ€‹Jane : I love weddings. So, who officiated the w..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.20 That's a nice touch!

Jane : I'm sure they had lots of Korean food there.์ œ์ธ : ํ‹€๋ฆผ์—†์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์ด ์•„์ฃผ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚˜์™”๊ฒ ๋„ค.โ€‹Harry : You guessed it! And people loved it.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๋งž์•˜์–ด! ๋‹ค๋“ค ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ์ง€.* guessed : ์ถ”์ธกํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€‹โ€‹Jane : I'm not surprised. What exactly did they serve?์ œ์ธ : ๋†€๋ž„ ์ผ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”๋Š”๋ฐ?* surprised : ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค* serve : ๋Œ€์ ‘ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹โ€‹Harry : The noodles were a big hit. They symbolize longevity and a good life, I heard.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๊ตญ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ํžˆํŠธ์˜€์–ด. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์žฅ์ˆ˜์™€ ํ‰์•ˆํ•œ ..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.21 โ€‹The reception is usually very big.

Jane : You know, wedding ceremonies in the States are quite different.์ œ์ธ : ์žˆ์ž–์•„, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ์‹์€ ์ฐธ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ.* quite : ๋Œ€๋‹จํžˆโ€‹Harry : Really? How so?ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๋ž˜? ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ?โ€‹Jane : The reception is usually very big, with lots of dancing and a live band.์ œ์ธ : ํ”ผ๋กœ์—ฐ์ด ๋Œ€๊ฐœ ์•„์ฃผ ์„ฑ๋Œ€ํ•ด, ์ถค๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์ถ”๊ณ  ๋˜ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ๋ฐด๋“œ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ .* usually : ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„, ๋Œ€๊ฐœ* live band : ์ƒ์Œ์•…์„ ์—ฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐด๋“œโ€‹Harry : That sounds fun. What else is different?ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ค. ๋˜ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ?โ€‹Jane : There ..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.22 That does sound practical.

Jane : The couple registered for gifts at different stores, so guests knew exactly what to buy.์ œ์ธ : ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ์ ๋“ค์— ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์„ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด ๋‘์—ˆ๋”๋ผ๊ณ . ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ํ•˜๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์‚ฌ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ง€.* registered : ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ•ด๋‘์—ˆ๋‹คโ€‹Harry : That sounds so organized.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ณ„ํš์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„.* organized : ์ •๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž˜๋œ, (~ํ•˜๊ฒŒ) ๊ณ„ํš๋œโ€‹Jane : It actually makes things easier and ensures they get what they need.์ œ์ธ : ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ข€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.23 That's so touching.

Harry : I've heard that wedding receptions in America are quite something.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ ํ”ผ๋กœ์—ฐ์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ฉด์„œ?โ€‹Jane : Absolutely! There's often a live band, and sometimes a DJ takes over later.์ œ์ธ : ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ! ์ข…์ข… ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ ๋ฐด๋“œ๋„ ์˜ค๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋””์ œ์ด๊ฐ€ ์™€์„œ ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ๋„˜๊ฒจ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ด.* take over : ๋„˜๊ฒจ๋ฐ›๋‹คโ€‹Harry : That sounds like a blast.ํ•ด๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๊ฑฐ ์—„์ฒญ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ค* blast : ์•„์ฃผ ์‹ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„โ€‹โ€‹Jane : Oh, for sure! The bride usually has this emotional da..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.26 โ€‹First time here too.

Jack : Hi, I'm Jack. Just joined this computer course.์žญ : ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ „ ์žญ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”. ์ด ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๊ฐ•์ขŒ์— ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ๋“ค์–ด์™”์–ด์š”.* join : ๋™์ฐธํ•˜๋‹ค, ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Kelly : Nice to meet you, Jack. I'm Kelly. First time here too.์ผˆ๋ฆฌ : ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์›Œ์š”, ์žญ. ์ €๋Š” ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์š”. ์ €๋„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด์—์š”.โ€‹Jack : So, what did you do before this?์žญ : ๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์ด ์ „์—” ๋ญ˜ ํ•˜์…จ์–ด์š”?โ€‹Kelly : I was a full-time housewife for 15 years. How about you?์ผˆ๋ฆฌ : ์ „ 15๋…„ ๊ฐ„ ์ „์—…์ฃผ๋ถ€์˜€์–ด์š”. ๋Œ์€์š”?* full-time housewife : ์ „์—…์ฃผ๋ถ€โ€‹J..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12

24.08.27 It's a big step, but it's exciting.

Kelly : So, what do you hope to get out of this course, Jack?์ผˆ๋ฆฌ : ๊ทธ๋ž˜, ์ด ๊ฐ•์ขŒ์—์„œ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์–ป๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ์„ธ์š”, ์žญ?* get ... out of : ~์—์„œ…์„ ์–ป์–ด ๋‚ด๋‹คโ€‹โ€‹Jack : Well, Al is the thing now and I'm hoping to learn more about it. You know, for the next chapter of my life.์žญ : ๊ธ€์Ž„์š”. ์ธ๊ณต ์ง€๋Šฅ์ด ์š”์ฆ˜์€ ๋Œ€์„ธ์ด๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ ๋” ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์ œ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ๋‹ค์Œ ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .โ€‹Kelly : Same here. I want to be prepared for the job market after being at home for so long.์ผˆ..

6. Easy English 2024.10.12