I am posting pieces of a noted daily paper 'The Korea Herald'
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[ Mostly well brought up and successfully educated, the some 450 adult Koreans adopted abroad who attended the third International Adoption Conference in Seoul were far from harboring remorse about having to leave their motherland at early ages, much less in a mood to ask, "Where were you when I needed you?" During the five-day "Gathering 2004," they shared as much joy over finding opportunities for better lives as they did tears of emotion about returning to a native country that most of them scarcely remembered. ]
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I had little troubling figuring out the overall meaning of the passage, but this.
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.. they shared as much joy ... as they did tears of emotion ...
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What I am curious about is that what 'did tears of emotion' means here.
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You do tears ? What does it mean ? Anybody has any idea ?
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Let me put down another piece.
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[ This is certainly a "reputation" that does not become the nation, now known as the world's 12th largest economy. Domestic adoption has continuously been encouraged, but it has failed to take root due to the exclusive family view in our society. A more realistic solution should be strengthening sex education to prevent unwanted pregnancies among young women, because a great majority of the children abandoned by their parents nowadays were born out of marriage. Fathers also need education to take responsibility for their babies. ]
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Again, I had little problem understanding the general meaning but this.
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The second from the bottom,
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" ... nowadays were born out of marriage.."
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You know, 'out of' can be 'from' occasionally. But at the same time, that can imply
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'outside of', right ?
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If the former is applied, then the sentence is referring to babies from normal marriage and if the latter applied, then the sentence is saying babies from outside of normal marriage. Well, they are world's apart and I don't know which one to take.
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Please give me some asstance so that I can make a little tidy progress again today.^^
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They cried because of emotion(좋은 감정) but were not remorseful or angry over their past(they were abandoned) . In the second 'paragraph' the sentence means that nowadays most of the children who are abandoned are born from women who are not married. The men who 'seduced' the women refuse to take
responsibility for the children.// It is a very sad thing that young men and women have sex before getting married. They have children and abandon them...
Thank you 하얀구름, hyunook. By the way, hyunook, you seem to have been away for a while. So, the job you're taking has not been over yet ? I hope I could see you often.^^
Hello EQ. Had the reporter used the expression "born out of wedlock", you would not have been confused. Look up the word "wedlock" in your E-K dictionary.
I looked up my E-E dictionary which defines 'wedlock' 1. the state of being unmarried 2. out of wedlock : of unmarried parents - children born out of marriage. Thank you 로빈.^^ So glad to meet you as well.^^
첫댓글 do tears of emotion...가슴밑바닥에서 나오는눈물을 흘리다.....복받치는슬픔의 눈물을 흘리다....아주슬픈마음이 일어나다..... 이런 슬픔을 느꼈던 기분만큼이나 즐거움도...그렇게 많이 나누었다...라는 뜻같습니다.
be born out of marriage.....혼외정사로 태어나다.......이정도의 의미아닐까요?.
They cried because of emotion(좋은 감정) but were not remorseful or angry over their past(they were abandoned) . In the second 'paragraph' the sentence means that nowadays most of the children who are abandoned are born from women who are not married. The men who 'seduced' the women refuse to take
responsibility for the children.// It is a very sad thing that young men and women have sex before getting married. They have children and abandon them...
Thank you 하얀구름, hyunook. By the way, hyunook, you seem to have been away for a while. So, the job you're taking has not been over yet ? I hope I could see you often.^^
Hello EQ. Had the reporter used the expression "born out of wedlock", you would not have been confused. Look up the word "wedlock" in your E-K dictionary.
I looked up my E-E dictionary which defines 'wedlock' 1. the state of being unmarried 2. out of wedlock : of unmarried parents - children born out of marriage. Thank you 로빈.^^ So glad to meet you as well.^^