[조앤 K 롤링 강연 공부하기] 굳이 변명하지 말아라, 영어로 어떻게 말하지?

* 본 포스팅은 오성호 강사님의 Live Class를 기반으로 제작되었으며, 영어실력 향상을 꾀하신다면 실제 강사님의 강의를 직접 수강할 것을 적극 권장 드립니다. 

주말특강 (Live Class) - 수업 소개 : 네이버 카페 

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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!

*  Don't bother to explain. 굳이 변명하려 하지 말아라. bother (yourself) 

 

* I've earned it = I deserve it. (누가 도와준 게 아니라, 내 스스로 이뤄낸 것)

 

* The great majority of you : 8~90%(대다수)

* The majority of you : 다수(3~40%도 될 수 있다)

 

* wish you something: 너에게 ~를 기원하다(바라다)

* nothing better than : 이정도면 된다 = 다름아닌 

 

* words : ~가 한 말 (my words)

 

* in retreat  : 도망가다 

 

* As is a tale, so is life = As a tale is, so is life : tale이 존재하는 것처럼(방식대로) 삶도 존재한다

 

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#  Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.
Of course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally neutral. One might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or sympathise.

* creature = animal  <-> human (동물이 아닌, 기계가 아닌으로 대조적으로 씀)

 

* human (동물과 대비되는 인간(형용사)) > humane (인도적인, 사람의 도리)

 

* 인간 : humans / human beings / humanity

 

* imagine myself being in their places

 

i‧ma‧gine /ɪˈmædʒɪn/ ●●● S1 W2 verb [transitive]    

1 to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something could be like

imagine (that) Imagine that you have just won a million pounds. Imagine life without hot water.

imagine what/how/why etc Can you imagine what it’s like when it’s really hot out here in Delhi?

imagine somebody doing something She could imagine dark-robed figures moving silently along the stone corridors.

(just) imagine doing something Imagine doing a horrible job like that! Just imagine going all that way for nothing!

imagine somebody/something as something He didn’t quite dare to imagine himself as a real artist.

imagine somebody in/with/without etc something Somehow, I can’t imagine him without a beard.

it’s difficult/easy/possible/impossible etc to imagine something After such a dry summer, it’s difficult to imagine what rain looks like

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#  And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling (bothering) to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

*  exercise : 실제 사용하는 것, 실제 행동으로 옮기는 것

 

* remain : 그 상태로 지속하는 것

 

* within the bounds : bounds = boundary

 

* Don't bother to explain. 굳이 변명하려 하지 말아라. bother (yourself) 

 

* refuse : 한사코(여러차례) 거절

 

* peer : 응시하다

 

* they can refuse to know = they have the luxury of not knowing.

 

A few good man

 : You have the luxury of not knowing what I know.  (* luxury : 특권)

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# I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid (the imaginative).

 

* I might be tempted to : 유혹받다, 솔깃하다

 

* except that : 그러나 ~ 아닙니다 (그게 아니라)

 

* agoraphobia : 광장 공포증

 

* willfully : 고의적인

 

* the unimaginative : 세상 밖을 보지 않기로 선택한 사람들

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# What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

* outright : 드러내 놓고

out‧right1 /ˈaʊtraɪt/ ●○○ adjective [only before noun]    

1 clear and direct 

an outright refusal 

an outright attack on his actions

2 complete and total 

an outright victory 

an outright ban on the sale of tobacco

* collude with : 공범

col‧lude /kəˈluːd/ verb [intransitive]   

 to work with someone secretly, especially in order to do something dishonest or illegal

collude with Several customs officials have been accused of colluding with drug traffickers.

collude in She knew about the plan, and colluded in it.

* apathy : 무관심

ap‧a‧thy /ˈæpəθi/ ●○○ noun [uncountable]    

the feeling of not being interested in something, and not willing to make any effort to change or improve things 

The campaign failed because of public apathy.

* at the end of : ~을 마치고 

 

* inwardly

in‧ward /ˈɪnwəd $ -wərd/ ●○○ adjective written    

1 [only before noun] felt or experienced in your own mind but not expressed to other people OPP outward 

a feeling of inward satisfaction 

inward panic

2 towards the inside or centre of something

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# That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities. Ev en your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world’s only remaining superpower. The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bear on your government, has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege, and your burden.

 

* astonishing = shocking = stunning(좋은 느낌의 쇼킹)

 

* yet : 그렇지만 

 

* in part : 100%는 아니지만

 

* earn : 스스로 내것으로 만들다 = achieve

 

* I've earned it = I deserve it. (누가 도와준 게 아니라, 내 스스로 이뤄낸 것)

* The great majority of you : 8~90%(대다수)

* The majority of you : 다수(3~40%도 될 수 있다)

 

* the pressure you bring to bear on your government

bear: 가지고 있는 

 DEAL WITH SOMETHING to bravely accept or deal with a painful, difficult, or upsetting situation SYN stand 

She was afraid she wouldn’t be able to bear the pain. 

Overcrowding makes prison life even harder to bear. 

Make the water as hot as you can bear. 

The humiliation was more than he could bear. 

Black people continue to bear the brunt of most racial violence (=have to deal with the most difficult or damaging part). 

Passengers could be insulting, and stewardesses just had to grin and bear it (=accept it without complaining). 

Experts were worried the financial system would not be able to bear the strain.

 

* has an impact way beyond your borders  : way는 강조 / beyond your borders : globally

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#  If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

 

* identify with : 동일시하다

 

* retain the ability : retain = keep  유지

 

* your existence = a ___ life : 삶의 방식 

 

* carry (haver + move) 가지다, 움직이다, 가지고 움직이다

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#  I am nearly finished. I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I sat on graduation day have been my friends for life. They are my children’s godparents, the people to whom I’ve been able to turn in times of trouble, people who have been kind enough not to sue me when I took their names for Death Eaters. At our graduation we were bound by enormous affe ction, by our shared experience of a time that could never come again, and, of course, by the knowledge that we held certain photographic evidence that would be exceptionally valuable if any of us ran for Prime Minister.

 

* for life : 평생

 

* turn to somebody : 그쪽으로 고개를 돌리고, 몸을 돌리다 => 의지하다

 

* by the knowledge that : that절을 알고 있기 때문에

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# So today, I wish you nothing better than similar friendships. And tomorrow, I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those (words ~ 가 한말) of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom:As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wish you all very good lives.
Thank you very much.

* wish you something: 너에게 ~를 기원하다(바라다)

 

* nothing better than : 이정도면 된다 = 다름아닌 

 

* words : ~가 한 말 (my words)

 

* in retreat  : 도망가다 

 

* As is a tale, so is life = As a tale is, so is life : tale이 존재하는 것처럼(방식대로) 삶도 존재한다