[조앤 K 롤링 강연 공부하기] 내 또래, 영어로 어떻게 말하지?

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주말특강 (Live Class) - 수업 소개

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강연제목 : J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement

강연 링크 : https://youtu.be/wHGqp8lz36c?si=rHpQWZOUAbXubZGG

 

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모든 학습의 후에는 반드시 내가 나중에 반드시 입으로 말해 볼 표현을 확실히 정리해야 합니다. 그렇지 않으면 밑 빠진 독에 물붓기는 같습니다!

* many people of my age and older  : 내 또래 또는 나보나 나이 많은 사람들

 

* that is not wholly so = that is not the case 100%(전적으로) 그런 것은 아니다

 

* to my last gasp : 죽는 날까지 (gasp =  숨) = forever = for good = till the day I die

 

* formative years 사춘기

* though: 물론 

 

* speak against their governments : 반정부 발언

* speak for : 찬성 or 대신 (speak for me 나대신)

 

* include : 포함하다 => ~ 중에

Visitors to our offices included those  : 방문자 중에 이런 사람도 있어요 

I have five cars. They include 2~3개만!!!

I have five cars, including ~~ 

~ 중에 : out of ~ among ~, include (including)

 

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# So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

* given a Time Turner : ~가 주어진다면

 

* acquisition : 내 것이 된 것

 

* many people of my age and older  : 내 또래 또는 나보나 나이 많은 사람들

 

* vicissitudes = challenges

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# Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. (But also) In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

 

* Now : 문장 톤이 바뀜 = 그런데, 한편

 

* that is not wholly so = that is not the case 100%(전적으로) 그런 것은 아니다

 

* to my last gasp : 죽는 날까지 (gasp =  숨) = forever = for good = till the day I die

 

* uniquely human : 유일한 => 다른 동물들과는 다른 인간만의 

   human : 동물이 아닌 인간

 

* envision = picture = imagine 머릿속에 그려보다

 

* that which = what

 

* fount = source 출발점

 

* arguably 분명히 (이론/반론이 있을 수 있지만, 제 생각에는(=definetly)

 

*revelatory : 기존에 모르던 것을 드러내주는

revelatory

adjective

   formalUK  /ˌrev.əˈleɪ.tər.i/ US  /ˈrev.ə.lə.tɔːr.i/

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making something known or showing something that was previously secret:

It was a revelatory moment when I realized that there were other people who watched the show.

 

 

* kind 배려, 공감, 신경 ===== sensitive, considerate, sympathetic ========> empathetic 

empathise with

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# One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books. This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International’s headquarters in London.

 

* formative years 사춘기

 

* procede = came before <-> follow = came after

 

* though: 물론 

 

* inform : 영향을 주다 = affect

 

* subsequently :  그 이후에 

 

* revelation : 신의 계시, 깨닫음

 

*slop off = slip away 슬그머니 빠져 나오다 

 

* Amnesty International : 국제 사면위원회

 

* working at the African research department  : 보통 직장은 work for이지만, at을 쓴 이유는 장소를 강조(내가 일했던 곳은 다름아닌 ~)

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# There in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and rapes.

 

* hastily scribbled letters : 급하게 갈겨 쓴

 

* smuggle 밀수 => 몰래 가지고 나오다

 

* totalitarian : 전체주의 = 독재 

 

* regime (불법적인 느낌) 정권 <-> government (민주적으로 선출된) 정부

 

* risking imprisonment : 투옥을 무릎쓰고

 

* their desperate families and friends : desperate 지푸라기라도 잡는 심정 => 절박한(필사적인) = 절망적인

 

needing or wanting something very much

desperate for 

The team is desperate for a win. 

I was desperate for a cigarette.

 

desperate to do something 

He was desperate to get a job.

 

* torture victims 고문을 당한 피해자들

 

tor‧ture1 /ˈtɔːtʃə $ ˈtɔːrtʃər/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable]    

1 an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel 

He died after five days of excruciating torture.

2 severe physical or mental suffering 

The waiting must be torture for you.

 

torture2 ●○○ verb [transitive]  

1 to deliberately hurt someone in order to force them to give you information, to punish them, or to be cruel 

Political opponents of the regime may be tortured.

2 if a feeling or knowledge tortures you, it makes you suffer a lot mentally SYN torment 

Rachel sat alone for hours at home, tortured by jealousy.

 

* accounts : 설명

 

* summary trial(s) : 즉심

 

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# Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their governments. Visitors to our offices included those who had come to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left behind.

 

* displace 쫓아내다 

1 to take the place or position of something or someone SYN replace 

Coal has been displaced by natural gas as a major source of energy. 

immigrants who displace US workers in the job market

2 to make a group of people or animals have to leave the place where they normally live 

Fifty thousand people have been displaced by the fighting.

3 to force something out of its usual place or position 

The water displaced by the landslides created a tidal wave.

 

* exile : 망명

 

* temerity : 만용 

 

when someone says or does something in a way that shows a lack of respect for other people and is likely to offend them → audacity 

He actually had the temerity to tell her to lose weight.

 

* speak against their governments : 반정부 발언

* speak for : 찬성 or 대신 (speak for me 나대신)

 

* include : 포함하다 => ~ 중에

Visitors to our offices included those  : 방문자 중에 이런 사람도 있어요 

 

I have five cars. They include 2~3개만!!!

 

I have five cars, including ~~ 

 

~ 중에 : out of ~ among ~, include (including)