white lie는 누군가의 생명을 살리기도 한답니다

“I have something to tell you, white mouse,” she said. “Mr. Behrman died of pneumonia today in the hospital.He was ill only two days...

2021.03.29 09:00

Confidential은 3급·Top Secret은 1급 비밀이랍니다

Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a p...

2021.03.22 09:01

arm이 들어가면 armor처럼 무기 관련 표현이 많아요

In the late summer of that year, we were living in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. When troops went ...

2021.03.15 09:01

유대인을 Jew라고 하면 결례…a Jewish person이 적절

Sunday, 14 June, 1942On Friday, June 12th, I woke up at six o’clock and no wonder; it was my birthday. But of course I was not allowed to get up...

2021.03.08 09:01

직업을 바라보는 관점…job, career, calling

I heard that family descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but it was my grandfather’s brother who started my family’s business. He starte...

2021.03.01 09:01

소의 해…cow·bull·ox·calf가 모이면 cattle이 됩니다

The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to che...

2021.02.22 09:01

long face는 '긴 얼굴' 아닌 '우울한 얼굴'입니다

The long lower hall had not been lighted, and as she came downstairs, a last Trustee stood, on the point of departure, in the open door that led to th...

2021.02.08 09:00

pre · fore는 앞·예상이란 뜻 내포하고 있어

My sister sliced the bread in her usual way, applied a scraping of butter, cut the bread in two and gave Joe and I each a half. I was very hungry, but...

2021.02.01 09:01

팔색조 처럼 다양한 의미 지닌 단어 'home'

My name is Remi. Until I was eight years of age, I had lived with my mother. Mother used to take my feet between her hands and warm them, while she sa...

2021.01.25 09:00

shoot는 '쏘다' '새싹'…단어 의미, 문장으로 배워야

Once there was a tree and she loved a little boy. And every day the boy would come and he would gather her leaves and make them into crowns and play k...

2021.01.18 09:00

쓰임 폭 넓어지는 중성 대명사 'They'

The four sisters knitted quietly as the December snow fell outside. It was a comfortable room, even though the furniture was old. Christmas flowers bl...

2021.01.11 09:01

ling·let·kin은 '작다'는 의미의 '지소형 접속사'죠

The poor duckling was so sad that he hid himself by the riverbank all through the summer. One day he watched some beautiful swans fly past him. &ldquo...

2020.12.28 09:00

즐겁고 행복한 성탄절 보내세요~~^^

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. Every day, when she went to the shops, she spent very little money. She bought the cheapest meat, the cheapest vegetables. And when she was tired, she ...

2020.12.21 09:00

거의 모든 명사는 동사로 활용이 가능하죠

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively, The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was ba...

2020.12.14 09:00

소설은 단어나 어휘의 보물창고죠

 Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard...

2020.12.07 09:00

one, another, the other의 구분법

At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up. The two Indians stood waiting. Nick and his father got into the stern back of the boat and the I...

2020.11.30 09:01

문장의 5형식에 너무 매이지 마세요

 We found a truck driver, and slipped him a five-dollar bill, and he let me put my head near his exhaust pipe for a half hour. I was immediately ...

2020.11.23 09:01

'to 부정사'의 다양한 용법을 익혀보세요

For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood- (sh...

2020.11.16 09:00

시험에 자주 나오는 분사구문을 숙지하세요

 The girls stood aside, talking among themselves, looking over their shoulders at the boys. and the very small children rolled in the dust or clu...

2020.11.09 09:01

'spect'는 '보다'라는 뜻을 포함하죠

All her life, Mrs. Foster had had an almost pathological fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat, or even a theatre curtain. In other respects, she w...

2020.11.02 09:00