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ABC 표현 정리 (4/8, JULY) INSTRUCTOR KIM SOO-YEON
STORY 10:
1. 전국의 젊은이들이 종강 행사를 하고 있다: Young people across the country are marking the end of the school year
2. 차려 입고 종강 파티에 가다: dressing up and going to the prom
3. 그들은 자신들이 입원해 있는 암병원에서 열리는 파티에 갔다: they went to a prom held in their cancer hospital
4. 큰 파티가 며칠 밖에 남지 않은 상황에서: With the big bash only days away
5. 이 파티가 올해의 주요 행사이다: this prom is the year's main event
6. 가장 멋진 드레스와 가운을 빌리다: get to borrow the fanciest of dresses and gowns
7. 화학 요법을 한참 받는 중: in the midst of chemotherapy
8. 날짜를 손꼽다: counting down the days
9. 많은 이들이 수 개월의 고통스러운 치료를 (참으며) 받아왔다: Many have endured months of painful treatments
10. 느낌도 달라지고 외모도 달라보인다: They not only feel different, they look different
11. 많은 이들이 사회적으로 위축되기 시작하다: Many begin to socially withdraw
12. 이 연회의 취지는 그들을 (다른 사람들과) 어울리도록 끌어내는 것이다: The prom is designed to pull them back.
13. 마침내, 중요한 날, 마지막 마무리: Finally, on the big day, some last-minute touches
14. 병원 식당이 연회장으로 바뀌었다: the hospital cafeteria was transformed into a ballroom
15. 그는 병원과 많이 아픈 것을 연관시킨다 : He definitely associates the hospital with a lot of pain
16. 열심히 춤을 추다: completely cutting a rug
17. 일부는 아직도 정맥 주사를 달고 있다: some still attached to their IV poles
18. 그녀는 지난 밤에 이 옷을 입고 잤다: She slept in it last night
19. 여기 나와서 그들이 춤추는 것을 보니 목이 메인다: seeing them out here dancing, just chokes me up
21. 너무 빨리 지나가는 몇 시간 동안: For a few fleeting hours
STORY 11:
1. 주택 시장의 호황: a ~ market
2. 물가가 무려 67% 올랐다: Prices are up ~ 67%
3. 전쟁 지역에서의 부동산 붐: A ~ in a war zone
4. 부동산 주인이 바뀌고 있다: properties are ~
5.치안이 개선되고 사실상 신규 건설이 전혀 없는 상태에서: With security ~ and virtually no ~
6. 기존 부동산들의 가격이 치솟고 있다: prices on ~ are ~
7. 그에게 사겠다는 사람이 벌써 두 명이다: he already has two ~
8. 시장의 최저가쪽에서는 가격이 훨씬 더 가파르게 올라가고 있다: At the ~ of the market prices are going up even more ~
9. 이런 아파트들은 2만 달러에 팔렸다: Apartments like these ~ $20,000
10. 어떤 사람들은 자신들의 부동산에 대해 너무 높게 호가하고 있다: Some people are asking very high prices ~
11. 이들은 너무 욕심을 부리고 있다: They're ~ too ~
12. 집을 되팔아 2십만 달러를 벌었다: made $200,000 ~ a house
13. 미국 부동산업자들을 울고 가게 만들다: make American ~ ~
14. 주택 담보 위기 가능성은 전혀 없다: there is ~ of a mortgage crisis
15. 집들이 현금으로 지불된다: Houses are ~
STORY 12:
1. 고휘발유가에 대한 전국민의 우려를 해소하기 위해 노력하다: ~ the nation's ~ about high gas prices
2. 상원이 새로운 에너지 법안을 부결했다: the Senate ~ a new energy bill
3. 소속당에 따라 (찬반) 분리가 분명했다: the ~ were evident
4. 상원 민주당 의원들이 주요 석유 회사들에 대해 부당이득세를 부과할 것을 (입법) 제안했다: Senate Democrats had proposed a ~ on big oil companies
5. 소비자들은 연방의회가 무슨 조치를 취해주기를 고대하고 있다: consumers ~ Congress to do something
6. 딴청을 하다: look ~
7. 유가로 인해 미국민들은 겁이 나서 죽을 지경이다: The price of oil, just ~ the American people to ~
8. 과도한 이득에 대한 특별세: A special tax on ~
9. 석유수출국기구 국가들을 가격 담합 혐의로 고소하다: sue OPEC countries for ~
10. 대체적으로 소속 정당에 따라 찬반이 나눠지면서 그 법안이 부결되었다: The bill ~ a largely ~
11. 이 나라 국민이 한번 들고 일어나다: the people of this country ~
12. 미국내의 더 많은 지역을 유전 탐사에 개방토록 한 법안: A bill that ~ more areas of the US to drilling
13. 주유하다: filling their ~
14. 대혼란 상황에서 의회는 수수방관하다: Congress is ~ while Rome ~
15. 총체적인 난국 상황이다: We have a ~ of problems
16. 하지만, 의회에서는, 전혀 진척이 없다: And yet, on Capitol Hill, ~
17.두 법안 중 어느 것도 휘발유 가격에 즉각적인 영향을 미치지는 못했을 것이다: Neither bill would have ~ on gas prices
18. 이 위기 상황으로 의원들이 협력하는 계기가 될 수도 있다: this crisis could ~ lawmakers to work together
19. 초당적 차원의 장기적 해결책을 마련하다: come up with a ~
ABC 표현 연습 (4/8, JULY) INSTRUCTOR KIM SOO-YEON
1. 이명박 정부가 아주 곤란한 상황에 처했다. 국민의 식품 안전에 대한 우려 뿐만 아니라 당장의 경제 위기 상황도 해결해야 하기 때문이다.
The Lee admininistration is in a bind. It should not only try to address public concerns about food safety, but also the impending economic crisis.
2. 작년 이민 관련 법안이 미국 상원에 제출되었지만 일부 상원의원들이 그 법안의 주요 내용 중의 하나인 ‘외국 근로자 단기 비자(Gusest Worker)’ 프로그램 때문에 그 법안에 반대표를 던져서 무산되었었다.
Last year, when an immigration bill landed on the senate floor, it was killed, as some senators voted against it on the grounds that it contains a ‘guest worker program’ as one of its key provisions.
3. 이명박 대통령이 소고기 수입 협상과 관련해서 성급했었는가 하는 문제에 대해서는 여당과 야당의 입장이 일치했지만 재협상할 것인가 추가 협상을 할 것인가 하는 문제에 대해서는 당에 따라 다른 입장을 보였었다.
When it comes to the question of whether President Lee was not careful enough in allowing in beef from the
4. 버락 오바마는 석유회사들의 ‘부당이득’에 대해 세를 부과해야 한다고 주장하지만 그렇게 되면 지금보다도 일반 휘발유 가격만 엄청 오르게 될 것이다. 양심이 있고 지성이 있는 정치인이라면 이런 인기 영합적인 위험한 게임을 해서는 안될 것이다.
Barack Obama claims that oil companies should be taxed for their ‘windfall profits’, but that would make your gas-pump prices soar even higher than now. Any intelligent politician with a conscience should not play this kind of populist game.
5. 에너지 부문에 대한 국제적 투기가 본격적으로 증가하면서 이제 각국은 세계은행 같은 국제 기구가 개입해서 투기를 단절하기 위한 노력을 해주기를 바라고 있다.
As international energy speculation has become a growth industry, countries are looking to international organizations such as the World Bank to intervene to stop the gambling.
6. 물가는 뛰고 가계 소득은 제자리이고 경제는 위태위태하고 게다가 정정은 불안하고 국민들은 무서워 죽을 지경이다.
With prices soaring, household income in bind, the economy on the edge, and politics unstable, people are scared to death.
7. 소고기 수입 문제를 둘러싸고 한국이 난리가 났지만 미국은 “너의 국내 정치 문제니까, 너희가 알아서 해결하라”는 식이다. 우리 나라는 불이 났는데 미국은 나몰라라 희희낙락하고 있다.
While
STORY 10. SHALL WE DANCE
(OC) Finally, tonight, a dance of celebration. Young people across the country are marking the end of the school year with a rite of spring, dressing up and going to the prom. And here in
(VO) With the big bash only days away, the question looms ever larger. What to wear?
It looks like it might be a little bit long.
I love it.
Oh, here's a pink dress.
I want it.
Which one? Well let's find your size.
(VO) In the pediatric swing at
How do you think you're gonna look in it?
Good.
Good you think. I think you're gonna look beautiful.
(VO) These young patients get to borrow the fanciest of dresses and gowns, all donated.
Very dapper.
(VO) For the boys...
I think that's going to fit you well.
(VO) Appropriate formalwear. Melanie, who is 13, and in the midst of chemotherapy, is counting down the days.
Never been to one before.
(OC) What do you think it's gonna be like?
I hope it'll be magical.
(VO) These children could use a little magic. Many have endured months of painful treatments. They not only feel different, they look different. Many begin to socially withdraw. The prom is designed to pull them back.
Because on that day, everything to do with cancer is gone. And they are kings and queens. And they're beautiful.
Look, it matches.
(VO) Finally, on the big day, some last-minute touches. Now, the party can begin.
You were a joy, but I could be a boy you adore.
(VO) With the hospital cafeteria transformed into a ballroom, this prom becomes a unique experience.
When you don't really feel that well, you don't really see anybody. But this is nice that we can all have fun together.
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight, get down tonight
Well it means a lot. He definitely associates the hospital with a lot of pain. To see him out there healthy, energetic, just completely cutting a rug, means the world.
(VO) Here on the dance floor, the patients, some still attached to their IV poles, are surrounded by not only by their families, but by their doctors and nurses.
She has been wearing this dress for two weeks. She slept in it last night. It's hard for them when they lose their hair. When they don't feel good. And seeing them out here dancing, just chokes me up. It's wonderful.
(VO) For a few fleeting hours, these children, who have been through so much, in an effort to save their lives, finally get a chance to celebrate them. John McKenzie, ABC News,
STORY11. HOUSING BOOM
(OC) We turn, next, to a story about a booming housing market. It is not in this country. No, no, we all know what's happening to housing prices in the
(VO) Prices there in some cases are up as much as 67%. Here's ABC’s Terry McCarthy.
(VO) A real estate boom in a war zone. Behind the concrete blast walls, properties are changing hands as quickly as
(OC) Seven bedrooms, four bathrooms and marble floors throughout. Six months ago, this house was worth $900,000. Now, it's selling for $1.5 million.
(VO) Raji Ramzi already has two bidders, an Iraqi businessman living overseas and a foreign embassy. At the lower end of the market, prices are going up even more steeply. Apartments like these sold for $20,000 before the war. Now, they start at $70,000. But not everyone can keep up with the rising market. "Some people are asking very high prices for their properties," he says. "They're being too greedy.” But the market continues to go up. Raji Ramzi's friend just made $200,000 flipping a house in four weeks.
(OC) You know, stories like that, would make American realtors cry right now.
(VO) "Let them call me," he says. "I can give them a few tip.” One other difference from the
STORY12. ENERGY BILL
(OC) In
(VO) Senate Democrats had proposed a windfall profits tax on big oil companies. Republicans blocked it, arguing it would do nothing, really, to bring down gas prices. (OC) Our chief political correspondent Jake Tapper is on Capitol Hill tonight. Jake?
(OC) Good evening, Charlie. Well, consumers looking to Congress to do something today about this energy crisis, should probably look elsewhere.
(VO) Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing. The American people are worried.
The price of oil, just scaring the American people to death.
The American people are furious about what's going on.
(VO) But they cannot agree on much else. Killed on the Senate floor, today, a democratic energy bill that would have imposed a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
(VO) A special tax on excessive profits that oil companies don't reinvest in new energy sources. The bill also would have given the attorney general the ability to sue OPEC countries for price fixing. The bill died on a largely party line vote.
I hope the people of this country rise up and scream like they've never screamed before. How dare us do nothing?
(VO) Today's vote came just a few weeks after a Republican energy plan was killed. A bill that opened more areas of the
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It is a supply and demand problem.
(VO) Energy analysts say the prices of oil and gas are not coming down anytime soon.
We have a perfect storm of problems here that have come together. Security problems related to oil. Environmental problems related to oil. And now, price problems related to oil.
(VO) And yet, on Capitol Hill, gridlock.
If this weren't so pathetic, it would really be funny.
(OC) Neither bill would have had any immediate impact on gas prices, which, of course, is what consumers are clamoring for. But experts were hoping that this crisis could prompt lawmakers to work together to come up with a bipartisan long-term solution. But, Charlie, that is not happening.
(OC) Jake Tapper, on Capitol Hill, thanks to you.
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