2017년 11월 15일 영어 공부

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Polls still show that African Americans see race relations as more dire than white people do.
  -dire adj. dire is used to emphasize how serious or terrible a situation or event is
여론은 여전히 백인보다는 아프리카계 흑인이 인종관계를 더 심각한 문제로 받아들인다는 것을 보여준다.


As usual, joggers zipped along the edge of Long Meadow and dog owners did their postprandial duty.
  -postprandial adj. of or relating to the period immediately after lunch or dinner
여느때처럼 사람들은 롱메도우를 따라 열심히 조깅을 하고 개주인들은 식후의 의무를 행하고 있었다.


This ad hoc crowd was busy catching pokemon, the virtual creatures at the heart of the latest out-of-nowhere smartphone craze.
  -ad hoc adj. .ad hoc activity or organization is done or formed only because a situation has made it necessary and is planned in advance
즉흥적으로 모인 사람들은 포켓몬을 잡느라 정신이 없었는데, 포켓몬이란 최근에 갑자기 나타난 스마트폰의 광기의 중심에 있는 가상의 생물이다.


Hillary Clinton, who cannot be compared to Trump as an incendiary force in American life, canceled her rallies too, but showed her limitations by making an entirely banal statement on the need for a "national conversation" about race.
  -incendiary adj. incendiary weapons or attacks are ones thag cause large fire
  -‎banal adj. if you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting
미국인의 삶에 자극적인 존재로서 트럼프를 따라가지 못하는 힐러리 클린턴 역시 선거집회를 취소했지만 인종문제와 관련하여 국가적 대화가 필요하다는 평범한 연설을 함으로써 그녀의 한계를 여실히 보여줬다.


It was visible on cable television, where a succession of journalists interviewed a succession of Dallas citizens and civic leaders who expressed neither hate nor anger nor intemperance, but sadness and empathy.
  -intemperance n. lack of moderation, especially habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants
후세대 기자들이 증오나 분노 혹은 무절제를 보이지 않고 오히려 슬픔과 동정을 표현하는 달라스의 시민들과 시민운동가의 후예를 인터뷰하는 모습을 케이블 채널에서 볼 수 있다.


Both were disturbed men who wrapped themselves in the cloaks of larger movements--and the media, especially in the Orlando case, chose to portray the events as acts of terrorism rather than of individual derangement, abetted by the easy access of deranged individuals to powerful firearms.
  -derangement n. derangement is the state of being mentally ill and unable to think or act in a controlled way
  -‎abet v. if one person abets another, they help or encourage them to do something criminal or wrong
양측 모두 더 커다란 흐름에 자신들을 감춘 정신병자였고 언론도 특히 올란도 사건과 다른 일련의 사건들이 정신병자들이 화학무기에 쉽게 접근할 수 있기 때문에 벌어진 테러행위로 묘사하고 있다.


What if we are, in fact, doing what democracies are supposed to do--gradually learning, through experience, how to solve our most vexing problems?
  -vex v. if someone or something vexes you, they make you feel annoyed, puzzled and frustrated
사살 우리가 민주주의를 실천하는 것일수도 있다. 우리가 당면한 가장 거추장스러운 문제를 해결하는 방법을 경험을 통해 배워나가는 것 말이다.


The suite is quiet--oddly so, given its occupants seismic effect on the life of the nation beyond Fifth Avenue.
  -seismic adj. seismic means caused by or relating to an earthquake
스위트룸은 조용했다. 이상하리만치 그러했던 것이 거주인이 오번가를 넘어 국가전체에 미치는 지진같은 여파 때문이었다.


Number one, I seem to get an inordinate amount of coverage.
  -inordinate adj. if you describe something as inordinate, you are emphasizing that it is unusually or excessively great in amount or degree.
우선 제가 다루는 범위가 상당하군요.


It is not like I've not been in politics, but just not on this side of the ledger.
  -ledger n. a ledger is a book in which a company or organization writes down the amount of money it spends and receives
저는 줄곧 정치를 해왔지만 (수출입원장의 다른 편, 즉 이해관계가 다른 쪽) 이쪽이었던 적이 없습니다.


The problem was that his harsh language and his hyperbolic assertions about costs raised questions about both his grasp of foreign policy and his commitment to long-standing security arrangements.
  -hyperbolic adj. if you describe language as hyperbolic, you mean that it makes something sound much more impressive than it really is
비용에 대하여 그가 하는 가혹한 말과 과장하는 어투가 사람들로 하여금 외교정책에 대한 그의 이해도와 장기적인 안보에 대한 신뢰도에 의심을 하게 만들었다.


He likes the shock and awe of his approach, with no apparent concern for the reactions of Hillary Clinton (and many U.S. allies), for whom talk of an "obsolete" NATO and of building walls, both literal (along the Southern border) and figurative (by threatening punitive tariffs against major trading partners), is irresponsible and wrong headed.
  -punitive adj. punitive actions are intended to punish people
  -‎obsolete adj. something that is obsolete is no longer needed because something better has been intended
  -‎wrongheaded adj. if you describe someone as wrongheaded, you mean that although they act in a determined way, their actions and ideas are based on wrong judgements
그는 자신의 접근방식이 발생시키는 충격과 경외감을 좋아했고 말 그대로나 (남미와의 경계) 비유적으로 (주요 수출거래국에 징벌적 관세 부가) 나토가 한물갔다거나 장벽에 대해 언급하는 것은 무책임하고 잘못됐다고 하는 힐러리 클린턴의 반응을 전혀 신경쓰지 않았다.


His tendency to wing it--to act on his gut--effectively means that he's working off what might be called "political hearsay".
  -wing it v. to do something without planning planning or preparing it first; improvise
  -‎work off v. to get rid of or dissipate, as by effort
  -‎hearsay n. hearsay is information which you have been told but do not know to be true
본능에 따라 즉흥적으로 저질러버라고 마는 그의 성향은 정치적으로 전해들은 말을 없애려고 한다는 것을 의미한다.


At home and abroad, from the collapse of the traditional GOP presidential field to the Brexit vote in the U.K., elites of all kinds--governing, corporate, intellectual--are facing a withering populist backlash.
  -GOP grand old party
  -‎withering adj. a withering look or remark is very critical, and is intended to make someone feel ashamed or stupid
국내외적으로 전통적인 공화당의 대통령 배출이 무너지고 있고 영국의 브렉싯까지, 정부의 민간의 혹은 학자와 같은 엘리트들은 심각한 대중의 반발을 사고 있다.