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atrocious 잔학한 잔인한 (1600-1700) Latin atrox “sad, cruel”, from ater “black” + -ox “looking, appearing”
astro- 별의 우주의
expunge 지우다
punge 자극적인 톡쏘는
puncture 구멍을 뚫다
punch 주먹으로 한대치다 구멍을 뚫다
The atrocity was not taught in schools, even in Tulsa, until the mid-2000s and was expunged from police records.
burden 짐을 지우다 짐을 나르다
bur 밤송이 가시돋친 껍질 =burr
Even many Black residents preferred not to burden their children with the story.
cloak 망토 은폐물 에 가리다 For much too long the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness.clo 의복 =cloth cloud 구름closet 벽장 밀실
just because 단지 ~라고해서
But just because history is silent it doesn’t mean that it did not take place and, while darkness can hide much, it erases nothing.
heinous 극악무도하게 odious, wicked, evil반의어admirable
Only with truth can come healing and justice and repair.(도치문 고딕체 단어가 주어)
Knowledge of this violent attempt to suppress Black success in Greenwood, Tulsa, fell victim to a decades-long conspiracy of silence.(~에 대한 희생양으로 떨어지다)
teargas 최루탄으로 진압하다pose 제기하다 촬영 포즈를 취하다 인 체하다 으스대다
Trump had posed with a Bible outside a historic church after security forces teargassed protesters outside the White House.
boomtown 신흥도시
segment 부분 분할하다segregate 분리하다 segregation 분리(정책) separation, discrimination, apartheid반의어integrationcongregate 모이다aggregate 골재 합계
After studying an exhibition on this lost “boom town” at the Greenwood Cultural Center, Biden’s message appeared to be the opposite of “Make America great again” – an acknowledgment that America’s history includes slavery and segregation, and that only looking that fully in the face can allow it to move forward.
hush 침묵 쉿소리
The hush gave way to prolonged applause inside the room.
with a pointed statement 단도직입적으로
Challenging the language used to describe the one of the worst chapters in the country’s history of racial violence, the president followed a moment of silence with a pointed statement: “My fellow Americans, this was not a riot. This was a massacre.”
He went on: “Among the worst in our history. But not the only one and for too long, forgotten by our history. As soon as it happened, there was a clear effort to erase it from our memory, our collective memory…
We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know.
They come to terms with their dark sides. [조건을>]타협하다 인정하다 관계를 가지다
marginalize 소외시키다 하찮은 존재로 만들다
red lining 특별주의 지구지정 (보험 금융회사 등의)
note 주목하다 언급하다
The president noted that, while Greenwood’s Black community recovered, it was marginalised again by housing “red lining” and urban renewal projects including highways – a pattern seen in many American cities.
address 주소 주소를 쓰다 연설하다 말을 걸다 다루다 해결하다 Old French adresser, from dresser “to arrange”
He promised that his administration would address racism at its roots, expanding federal contracting with small, disadvantaged businesses, investing tens of billions of dollars in communities like Greenwood and pursuing new efforts to combat housing discrimination.
notably 특히 주목할만하게도
platform 연단 연설기회 기차승강장 대 통굽
disproportionate 균형이 맞지않는 비례하지 않는
Notably, Biden also used the platform to condemn efforts in recent months by Republican state legislators to impose voting restrictions – likely to have a disproportionate impact on people of colour – as a “truly unprecedented assault on our democracy”.
a hell of a lot 엄청난 양의
Biden has made numerous policy speeches as president but the convergence of history, racial justice and the audience on Tuesday seemed to strike a particular chord in him.
convergence 융합 수렴 집중성(↔divergence 발산 분기 일탈 확산) verge 길가 끝자락
strike a chord 심금을 울리다
chord 화음
What happened in Greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism with the through-line that exists today still,” he said, prompting a cry of assent from the audience.
with the through-line that exists today still 오늘날에도 존재하는 관통선을 가진
prompt 즉각적인(immediate) 시간을 엄수하는(punctual) 유도하다 촉발하다=cause, occasion, provoke반의어slow, discourage, deter
assent 찬성하는 dissent 반대하는
ascent 상승하는 discent 하강하는 scent 향기 냄새
And given just a little bit of oxygen by its leaders, it comes out from under the rock like it’s happening again, as if it never went away.
habour 항구 항만 숨겨주다 품다 온상이다 haven 피난처 tax haven(조세피난처)