스크랩 1.9.화 it doesn`t add up it doesn`t make sense. bean-curd 두부

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1.9.화 it doesn't add up it doesn't make sense. bean-curd 두부

1.9.화 it doesn't add up it doesn't make sense. bean-curd 두부

1.9.화 it doesn't add up it doesn't make sense. bean-curd 두부

1 President Roh proposed neutral name for sea between Korea and Japan during the summit.

노무현 대통령이 한일 정상 회담에서 동해의 명칭을 바꾸어 부르자는 의견을 제시한 것으로 알려져 논란이 일고 있습니다.

=neutral 중립의, 분명치 않은; 이도저도 아닌, 특성 없는

=If you say that something is neutral, you mean that it does not have any effect on other things because it lacks any significant qualities of its own, or it is an equal balance of two or more different qualities, amounts, or ideas.

2 Korean prosecutors indicted three people, on charges of leaking scientific technology developed with 10 billion won and mis-appropriating it by seeking a patent.

국가가 백억 원을 지원해 개발한 공학 기술을 빼돌린 정부 산하 연구기관 연구원 등 3명이 검찰에 적발됐습니다.

=mis-appro-priat-ing 남용[유용]하다, 횡령하다.

=If someone misappropriates money which does not belong to them, they take it without permission and use it for their own purposes.

3 Korean government is contemplating gradually cutting the two-year length of mandatory military service to 18 month.

정부가 군 복무기간을 24개월에서 18개월로 점진적으로 줄여나가는 방안을 검토하고 있는 것으로 전해졌습니다.

=contemplating 심사숙고하다, 곰곰 생각하다 (consider)

=If you contemplate an idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time.

=If you contemplate something or someone, you look at them for a long time.

=gradually 차츰, 점차

=small stages over a long period of time, rather than suddenly.

4 A British newspaper reported that Israel has drafted plans to strike Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons.

이스라엘이 전술 핵무기를 이용해서 이란의 핵 시설을 파괴할 계획을 세웠다고 영국의 신문이 보도했습니다.

=drafted plans ~ 초안하다, 계획하다.

=It's like an outline of a plan, you explain it in a general way.

=A draft is an early version of a letter, book, or speech.

=If you are drafted, you are ordered to serve in the armed forces, usually for a limited period of time.

5 China has complained to the United States about a stop-over Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian.

중국은 천수이볜 대만 총통의 미국 경유를 허가한 미국을 비난 하고 나섰습니다.

= stop-over 단기 체류(지);도중 하차(지); 잠깐 들르는 곳

= A stopover is a short stay in a place in between parts of a journey.

Chinese dish names puzzle foreigners

Many foreigners complain that they are often puzzled and even startled by the menu when they dine in Chinese restaurants, saying the awful translations of the names of the dishes often give them no small culture shock.

The names of many Chinese dishes are translated literally into English, though these English words don't add up at all. For example, "Lu Da Gong" (a Beijing-style dessert), is translated into "rolling donkey," and "Ma Po Dou Fu" (one of the most famous Sichuan dishes) is translated into "beancurd made by a pockmarked woman.

(1st) startle If something sudden and unexpected startles you, it surprises and frightens you slightly. 깜짝놀라게 하다. 펄쩍뛰게하다.

(2nd) dont' add up don't make sense.

bean-curd 두부curd 두부, 굳어진우유

pock(mark) 마마(자국), 작은구멍

Chirac allies cold-shoulder Sarkozy

Allies of Jacques Chirac, the French president, closed ranks in an apparent bid to undermine his bitter rival Nicolas Sarkozy, the centre-right front-runner to succeed him in April's election.

Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister and a staunch Chirac loyalist, said in a television interview that he would not take part in the ruling party primary to select a presidential candidate, in which Sarkozy, 51, is running unchallenged.

Chirac has already let it be known that he would not attend the congress in Paris next Sunday at which the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is due to triumphantlyanoint Sarkozy as its candidate.

close (the) ranks 일치단결하다, 결속을 굳히다, 열의간격을 줄이다

undermine 갱도를 파다, 뿌리를 침식시키다, 몰래 손상시키다

staunch 견고한 충실한 든든한

triumphantly 성공한 의기양양한 승리한

anoint 성유(액체기름 등)를 바르다..

resent 분개하다 골내다 원망하다 괘씸하게생각하다

(1st) cold shoulder If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away. - 냉대하다. snub

(2nd) bitter rival you mean that they are both of the same standard or quality and compete against in the same area or for the same things. 숙원의 적. (적수)