24.01.16 아침 영어 공부 (EBS 반디: Easy English, Morning special)

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Easy English (영어회화 레벨2)

Personality Tests

(표현)

• Might be worth a shot 한번 해볼만 한 것 같아
• Door lock code (집) 도어락 비밀번호
• decipher: 암호를 해독하다

(대화)

A: You know, these personality tests could help us understand people around us better.

• ~could help us R: ~가 도움이 되어 더 잘 R 할 수 있다.

B: Now you’re talking.

• 전적으로 동의할 때 / 말이 통하네 / …
• You see what I`m saying

A: It`s fascinating how different personalities can influence behaviors.

B: I think it can be a game changer in relationships and, at work.

• A Game-changer: 혁신적인 변화, innovation 
• 관계에서 “In” relationships / 직장에서 “at” work

A: It`s like cracking the code to decipher human behavior.

• Crack the code to ~: ~ 를 하기 위해 코드를 풀다

 

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최수진의 모닝스페셜 (morning special)

1. The Seoul education office has announced it will launch an online class-only school that can provide high school students with courses not presently offered in their own schools starting March of next year, when a high school credit system is set to be adopted nationwide.

• provide ... with ~ : ...에게 ~를 제공하다
• adopt : 택하다, 도입하다

2. A report published by Oxfam has revealed that the world’s five richest men have seen their fortunes more than double since 2020, while over the same period five billion people have become poorer.

• see their fortunes more than double : 자산이 두 배 이상 증가하다
• become poorer : 더 가난해지다

3. Subzero conditions pushing wind chills as low as -56 degrees Celsius across much of the US have left millions of Americans facing near-blizzard conditions in the north-east and several inches of snow in portions of the south.

• wind chill : 풍속 냉각 (바람과 기온의 조합으로 인해 인체에 느껴지는 온도) (a still-air temperature that would have the same cooling effect on exposed human skin as a given combination of temperature and wind speed) ※windchill factor: 체감 온도
• blizzard conditions : 눈보라가 치는 날씨

4. NASA and Lockheed Martin have unveiled a radical new quiet supersonic jet that could pave the way for a new generation of commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound.

• supersonic : 초음속의
• pave the way for : …을 위해 길을 열다

5. Original scripts from the iconic sitcom 'Friends' that were recovered from a bin by an unnamed former staff member in 1998 have been sold at auction for 28,000 dollars, or about 37 million won.

• iconic : 역사에 남는, 상징적인, 대표적인 ex) Do you remember Psy’s Gangnam Style? What an iconic music video!
• recovered from a bin : 쓰레기통에서 찾아진[발견된]