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assiduous
[əsídʒuəs]
끈기있는
근면 성실한
나는 학교 교사로 근무했었고,
목사로 내 이력 (履歷)을 마감했다.
물론 좋은 선생, 괜찮은 목사로 최선을 다했다고 자부 (自負)한다.
그러면서 이런 진부 (陳腐)한 주장도 했던 기억이 난다.
"좋은 교사가 우수한 학생을 만들고
학생이 우수해야 바람직한 교사가 생긴다."
마찬가지로
좋은 교인과 괜찮은 목사,
우수한 교인과 바람직한 목사의 공식을 머리에 두면서 열심히 일했다.
게다가 외국에서 목회하는 나는
I paid ASSIDUOUS attention to Koreans who were lonely foreigners.
나는 외로운 외국인인 학국인들에게 정성을 다했다.
영어가 잘 안되는 한인들, 낯선 나라에 적응하지 못하는 그들
직정을 구하고 때로는 병원 통역까지 ~
정성을 다했다.
그리고 목사가 되기 전 교사로 일할 때에도
I did my best to be an ASSIDUOUS teacher
who put my student's needs first.
나는 내 학생들의 요구에 우선하는
ㅗ성실한 교사가 되기 위해 최선을 다했다.
어디 나 뿐인가?
이 세상을 빛냈거나 공헌을 하고 싶은 사람들의 공통점이 있다.
Since they want to succeed in their field,
they are not only ASSIDUOUS whatever they do but also never give up.
그들은 그들이 일하는 분야에서 성공하기를 원하기 때문에
그들은 무엇을 하든지 최선을 다할 뿐만아니라 포기하지도 않는다
그러나 불행하게도 세계의 역사 가운데
성실하고 근면한 삶을 살은 인물들은 1800 년대에서
이차 세계대전이 발발할 때까지의 사람들이었고
computer 의 발달이 상상을 초월하기 시작할 때
많은 사람들이 assidous 와 거리가 먼 삶을 살고있는 편이다.
부모들이 갖는 자녀들에 대한 관심과 애정도 그렇다.
ASSIDUOUS parents always made time for their children those days.
당시에는 성실한 부모들이 그들의 자녀들을 위해 많은 시간을 사용했었다.
바보 같은 질문 하나 ~
Have you been ASSIDUOUS at what you do?
당신이 하는 일에 성실해 왔는가?
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pay assiduous attention to a lady
여자에게 정성을 다하다
be assisduous at his study
학업에 열중하다
she was an assiduous student"
Being assiduous means working hard.
In fact, neither Iraqis nor Afghans are particularly assiduous mosque-goers.
She was assiduous in her efforts to complete the project on time,"
rather than simply saying "She was assiduous."
He is an assiduous fund-raiser and campaigner.
An assiduous friend is always there to listen and offer support.
Being assiduous is important if you want to succeed.
The assiduous parent always makes time for her children.
The assiduous parent always put their children's needs first.
An assiduous musician practices their instrument every day.
The assiduous student always pays attention in class.
The assiduous employee never missed a deadline.
If you are assiduous, you don't give up easily.
She was known for her assiduous study habits.
showing great care, attention, and effort
약화되지 않
Being diligent is different from being ASSIDUOUS.
Word of the Day: assiduous
This word has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
For now, a modest proposal: Consider the essay that comes in with a promising central idea but lacks support from a few critical moments of the text. It makes a smart but abrupt transition and closes with an interesting connection, a trifle undercooked. With another assiduous go-round, it might become something amazing. But please don’t give this draft an A-minus, the grade that puts so much potential to an early, convenient death. Instead, think of the produce of this student’s deletions and insertions, the music as he riffles through those pages he’ll annotate better next time, the reflective potential of a revision. Grading offers a singular place to teach such lessons of resilience. Instead, consider the B-plus.
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assiduous (adj.)
"attentive, devoted, constant in application," 1530s, from Latin assiduus "attending; continually present, incessant; busy; constant," from assidere/adsidere "to sit down to, sit by" (thus "be constantly occupied" at one's work); from ad "to" (see ad-) + sedere "to sit" (from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit"). The word acquired a taint of "servile" in 18c. Related: Assiduously; assiduousness.
also from 1530s
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word-forming element expressing direction toward or in addition to, from Latin ad "to, toward" in space or time; "with regard to, in relation to," as a prefix, sometimes merely emphatic, from PIE root *ad- "to, near, at."
Simplified to a- before sc-, sp- and st-; modified to ac- before many consonants and then re-spelled af-, ag-, al-, etc., in conformity with the following consonant (as in affection, aggression). Also compare ap- (1).
In Old French, reduced to a- in all cases (an evolution already underway in Merovingian Latin), but French refashioned its written forms on the Latin model in 14c., and English did likewise 15c. in words it had picked up from Old French. In many cases pronunciation followed the shift.
Over-correction at the end of the Middle Ages in French and then English "restored" the -d- or a doubled consonant to some words that never had it (accursed, afford). The process went further in England than in France (where the vernacular sometimes resisted the pedantic), resulting in English adjourn, advance, address, advertisement (Modern French ajourner, avancer, adresser, avertissement). In modern word-formation sometimes ad- and ab- are regarded as opposites, but this was not in classical Latin.
Assiduous came to English directly from the Latin assiduus, an adjective derived from the verb assidēre "to sit beside." To the ancient Romans, assiduus carried meanings ranging from “settled or rooted in place” to “constantly present” to “persistent, unremitting."
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to sit."
It forms all or part of: assess; assiduous; assiento; assize; banshee; beset; cathedra; cathedral; chair; cosset; dissident; dodecahedron; Eisteddfod; ephedra; ephedrine; ersatz; icosahedron; inset; insidious; nest; niche; nick (n.) "notch, groove, slit;" nidicolous; nidification; nidus; obsess; octahedron; piezo-; piezoelectric; polyhedron; possess; preside; reside; saddle; sanhedrim; seance; seat; sedan; sedate; (adj.) "calm, quiet;" sedative; sedentary; sederunt; sediment; see (n.) "throne of a bishop, archbishop, or pope;" sessile; session; set (v.); sett; settle (n.); settle (v.); siege; sit; sitz-bath; sitzkrieg; size; soil (n.1) "earth, dirt;" Somerset; soot; subside; subsidy; supersede; surcease; tanist; tetrahedron; Upanishad.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit a-sadat "sat down," sidati "sits," nidah "resting place, nest;" Old Persian hadis "abode;" Greek ezesthai "to sit," hedra "seat, chair, face of a geometric solid;" Latin sedere "to sit; occupy an official seat, preside; sit still, remain; be fixed or settled," nidus "nest;" Old Irish suide "seat, sitting," net "nest;" Welsh sedd "seat," eistedd "sitting," nyth "nest;" Old Church Slavonic sežda, sedeti "to sit," sedlo "saddle," gnezdo "nest;" Lithuanian sėdėti "to sit;" Russian sad "garden," Lithuanian sodinti "to plant;" Gothic sitan, Old English sittan "to sit."
"diligence," early 15c., from Latin assiduitatem (nominative assiduitas) "continual presence," noun of quality from assiduus "continually present" (see assiduous).
Industry keeps at work, leaving no time idle. Assiduity (literally, a sitting down to work) sticks quietly to a particular task, with the determination to succeed in spite of its difficulty, or to get it done in spite of its length. Application, literally, bends itself to its work, and is, more specifically than assiduity, a steady concentration of one's powers of body and mind .... [Century Dictionary]
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assiduous \ əˈsɪdʒəwəs \ adjective
: marked by care, attention and persistent effort
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The word assiduous has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 23 in the Opinion essay “If Everyone Gets an A, No One Gets an A” by Tim Donahue:
How might grade inflation’s roiling cloud now be pierced? Do we approach the colleges that purport to favor both mental health and kids who take 10 A.P. exams? Or high schools, which watch these grading trend lines with the dread of sea level rise? We keep treating high school and college as two separate entities, but ultimately, they service the same people, and there needs to be more conversation about what this mess of grades is doing to them.
For now, a modest proposal: Consider the essay that comes in with a promising central idea but lacks support from a few critical moments of the text. It makes a smart but abrupt transition and closes with an interesting connection, a trifle undercooked. With another assiduous go-round, it might become something amazing. But please don’t give this draft an A-minus, the grade that puts so much potential to an early, convenient death. Instead, think of the produce of this student’s deletions and insertions, the music as he riffles through those pages he’ll annotate better next time, the reflective potential of a revision. Grading offers a singular place to teach such lessons of resilience. Instead, consider the B-plus.
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