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1. The government has announced that logistics companies will produce courier boxes with holes to reduce the burden for delivery workers.
정부가 주요 택배사와 협의를 거쳐 택배기사의 부담을 줄일 수 있도록 상자에 손잡이를 만드는 방안을 추진하기로 했습니다.
2. China has passed a new law to strengthen environmental protections of the Yangtze River. It will come into force on March 1.
중국에서 양쯔강의 환경을 보호하기 위한 법이 처음으로 마련됐습니다. 이 법안은 올 3월 1일부터 시행될 예정입니다.
3. Australia, the United States and China have collaborated on a mission to medically evacuate an Australian expeditioner from Antarctica.
남극의 한 연구기지에서 응급환자가 발생해 호주, 미국과 중국이 협력하여 구조작업에 성공했습니다.
4. A young Afghanistan pianist, who was born a refugee, has got a scholarship to study piano performance at the Longy School of Music in the United States.
아프가니스탄 난민 출신의 한 피아니스트가 역경을 딛고 미국 유명 음악 대학교에 장학금을 받아 화제가 되고 있습니다.
5. Emily Harrington has become the first woman to free climb El Capitan's Golden Gate route in Yosemite National Park within a day.
에밀리 해링턴이 여성 최초로 미국 요세미티 엘 캐피탄 코스를 24시간 이내 자유등반으로 완등했습니다.
6. KBO star infielder Kim Ha-seong has sealed a deal with the San Diego Padres and is set to launch his major league career.
국가대표 유격수 김하성의 메이저리그 샌디에이고 파드리스행이 확정됐습니다.
▶ Good to Hear News (1)
A plan to produce handles on the delivery box will carry forward so that courier can easily carry heavy luggages. According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, major logistics companies decided to produce handles in 670,000 delivery boxes after consultation with the Ministry of Labor.
These handles are designed to make holes on both sides of the box allowing the hand to be inserted, they will be installed in a heavy box weighting more than 5 kg. If the boxes which cannot make holes such as frozen foods, it will draw up an alternative plan like attaching strings.
The Ministry of Labor has handed out ‘the guideline for the box handle; with Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency to spread the installation of the handle.
1) courier : 택배 운반원, 택배 기사
courier: A courier is a person who is paid to take letters and parcels direct from one place to another.
2) draw up an alternative plan: 계획을 그려내다, 고안하다, 마련하다
3)hand out: 나눠주다, 배포하다
*hand out: If you hand things out to people, you give one or more to each person in a group. (=distribute)
▶ Good to Hear News (2)
Stretching over 6,300 km and boasting rich biodiversity, and mineral and water resources in its basin, the Yangtze River is seen as an icon of the Chinese nation. China has enacted a new law to protect the Yangtze. The Law will come into force on March 1 after being approved by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee. It is the first law to conserve a particular waterway in China.
There are nine chapters in the new law, covering areas such as design and management, resource protection, anti-pollution measures, green development and legal responsibilities. It will also enforce stricter supervision. The new legislation confirms the fishing ban and has clauses restricting sand excavation and chemical production along its length.
1) come into force: (매우 공식적인 표현) 법이 효력을 발생하다, 법이 시행되다 (=> take effect)
2) basin: (큰 강의) 유역
basin: The basin of a large river is the area of land around it from which streams run down into it.
(*손 씻는 곳을 sink라고도 하지만 basin이라고도 부릅니다)
▶ Good to Hear News (3)
An Australian expeditioner has been medically evacuated from Antarctica, following a multinational effort. The expeditioner was at Australia's Davis research station in east Antarctica. Luckily, a Chinese icebreaker dispatched its helicopters to transfer a team of Australians to a site some 40km inland, so that they could build a ski-way for a US aircraft to land on and lift up the patient.
Meanwhile, the US ski-equipped aircraft flew 2,200km from the US research station to Australia's Wilkins Aerodrome to pick up a doctor. It then flew to the ski-way near Davis, where it picked up the patient and returned to Wilkins Aerodrome. An Australian Airbus A319 transported the patient back to the Australian city of Hobart.
1) medically evacuated: (의료적으로)사람을 대피시키다
evacuate: (v), 대피하다, to send them to a place of safety, away from a dangerous building, town, or area.
*evacuee: (n)험한 지역에서 피난 보내진 사람, 피난민
2)dispatched (특히 특별한 목적을 위해) 보내다, 파견하다
3) expeditioner: 원정가
An expedition is an organized journey that is made for a particular purpose such as exploration.
*cf. expeditioner vs explorer: expeditioner는 이미 발견된 남극에 간 원정가, explorer는 발견되지 않은 곳을 탐험하는 사람
▶ Good to Hear News (4)
Arson Fahim was born a refugee. His first home was a mud hut in a camp for Afghan displaced people in Pakistan. In 2012, Fahim's parents decided to return to Afghanistan with Fahim and his sister.
He had heard and fallen in love with a piece of music by Polish composer Frederic Chopin. Fahim applied for a place at the national music institute to study piano and composition. But his parents were apprehensive. "My parents told me I would not be able to get a job if I studied music," Fahim said.
Although Fahim cannot buy a piano to practice on at home, his talent has been highly acclaimed and he has performed at concerts and cultural exchange events in the region.
Fahim hopes to go to the United States in 2021. He has been offered a scholarship to study piano performance at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1) displaced people: 쫓겨난 사람들
displace: it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself.
2) apprehensive: 걱정되는, 불안한
apprehensive: Someone is afraid that something bad may happen.
3)apply for a place: ~한 자리에 지원하다, 신청하다
▶ Good to Hear News (5)
As she pulled herself over the summit of El Capitan, Emily Harrington knew she had made history.
"I'd just fantasized about it what it would be like and it was pretty much exactly what I envisioned," an ebullient Harrington said.
The US climber had powered on through the dark to become the first woman to free climb the rock face's notoriously difficult Golden Gate route in under 24 hours.
She had tried this particular route over the course of six days in 2015. However, an attempt last year ended in disaster after Harrington fell 15 meters, hit her head on a ledge, and suffered concussion.
The 34-year-old climber completed the mammoth task in 21 hours, 13 minutes and 51 seconds at last.
1) ebullient :(문어체, 글에서 많이 쓰이는) 패기만만한, 사기충전한
2) notoriously difficult: 악명 높게 어려운 (난코스, Golden Gate 등반로)
notorious: to be well-known for something bad.
cf. notorious, infamous: (adj.)악명이 높은
- Underlined -
▷The Hobbit Underlined (1)
This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained—well, you will see whether he
gained anything in the end.
The mother of our particular hobbit—what is a hobbit? I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded Dwarves.
Hobbits have no beards. There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a
mile off.
▷The Hobbit Underlined (2)
“Ask us! ask us!” said Gollum.
Bilbo pinched himself and slapped himself; he gripped on his little sword; he even felt in his pocket with his other hand. There he found the ring he had picked up in the passage and forgotten about.
“What have I got in my pocket?” he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset.
“Not fair! not fair!” he hissed. “It isn’t fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it’s got in its nassty little pocketses?”
Bilbo seeing what had happened and having nothing better to ask stuck to his question, “What have I got in my pocket?” he said louder.
“S-s-s-s-s,” hissed Gollum. “It must give us three guesseses, my preciouss, three guesseses.”
“Very well! Guess away!” said Bilbo.
“Handses!” said Gollum.
“Wrong,” said Bilbo, who had luckily just taken his hand out again. “Guess again!”
“S-s-s-s-s,” said Gollum more upset than ever. He thought of all the things he kept in his own pockets: fish-bones, goblins’ teeth, wet shells, a bit of bat-wing, a sharp stone to sharpen his fangs on, and other nasty things. He tried to think what other people kept in their pockets. “Knife!” he said at last. “Wrong!” said Bilbo, who had lost his some time ago. “Last guess!”
▷The Hobbit Underlined (3)
No fireworks you ever imagined equalled the sights that night. At the twanging of the bows and the shrilling of the trumpets the dragon’s wrath blazed to its height, till he was blind and mad with it. No one had dared to give battle to him for many an age; nor would they
have dared now, if it had not been for the grim-voiced man (Bard was his name), who ran to and fro cheering on the archers and urging the Master to order them to fight to the last arrow.
Fire leaped from the dragon’s jaws. He circled for a while high in the air above them lighting all the lake; the trees by the shores shone like copper and like blood with leaping shadows of dense black at their feet. Then down he swooped straight through the arrow-storm, reckless in his rage, taking no heed to turn his scaly sides towards his foes, seeking only to set their town ablaze.
Fire leaped from thatched roofs and wooden beam-ends as he hurtled down and past and round again, though all had been drenched with water before he came. Once more water was flung by a hundred hands wherever a spark appeared. Back swirled the dragon. A sweep of his tail and the roof of the Great House crumbled and smashed down. Flames unquenchable sprang high into the night. Another swoop and another, and another house and then another sprang afire and fell; and still no arrow hindered Smaug or hurt him more than a fly from the marshes.