[시사표현정리]
1) 방탕, 도락 debauchery
ex) For Baron Ochs, there is always time for debauchery, bragging and boorishness.
* boorishness 촌티 (=rudeness of manner due to insensitiveness to others' feelings)
2) 유연한 supple (=easy and fluent without stiffness or awkwardness)
ex) Breathtakingly supple voices, a Vienna Philharmonic that was honey one minute and thunder the next, and staging that made the best of both the plot and the huge Salzburg podium could not prevent creeping tedium as the production neared a close.
* honey 감미로운
* podium 연단
* creeping 오싹하는
* tedium 권태, 지루함
3) (육체와 정신의) 격심한 활동 exertion
ex) Even Richard Strauss felt his Rosenkavalier was too long and was loath to conduct it because of the physical exertion involved.
* be loath to ~을 싫어하다
4) 미묘한 nuanced
ex) As the Marschallin, Adrianne Pieczonka vocally captured all the nuanced melancholy of a woman who knows the time has come to accept age.
5) 즐거움 (즐거움을 주는 배우나 인물) a delight
ex) Franz Havlata was a delight as Ochs von Lerchenau, alternately buffoon-like and sinister as the braggart nobleman fallen on hard-times whose plan to fill his coffers through marriage is thwarted by the young lovers.
* alternately 번갈아, 교대로
* buffoon 익살광대 (=clown)
* sinister 불길한, 사악한 (=evil; presaging ill fortune or trouble)
* braggart 허풍선이
* fallen on hard-times 고난에 빠진
* coffers 금고, 재원
* thwart 방해하다, 좌절시키다 (=oppose successfully)
6) 세기말의, 퇴폐적인 fin-de-siecle
ex) With Carsen choosing to move the action up a few hundred years to pre-World War I Vienna, it all fit the fin-de-siecle mood of an era ending and of order unraveling.
* unravel 풀어지다, 무너지다
7) (총을 쏠 때) 총구에서 나오는 불빛 muzzle flash
ex) He hasn't dispelled the mist, much less disposed of the dragon, but he has set off some illuminating muzzle flashes and an invigorating din of combat.
* dispel 쫓아버리다, (근심이나 의심을) 없애다
* illuminate 비추다, 밝게 하다
* invigorating 기운 나게 하는, 상쾌한
* din 소음, 시끄러운 소리
8) 공허한, 내용 없는, 수다스러운 windy
ex) Yagoda, a writing teacher himself, charges, dodges, retreats and recharges. It may sound dry, windy and not especially fresh.
* dodge 피하다, 교묘히 회피하다
9) 상세히 설명하다 expound
ex) He expounds the argument for simplicity and transparency that runs from Aristotle through “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk and E.B. White.
10) 공공연히 avowedly
ex) He finds Strunkian dogmatics too limiting for great writing, and mostly acknowledges the stylistic artfulness in avowedly plain writers from Montaigne to Orwell.
11) 소풍, 옆길로 벗어남 excursion
ex) Often they point up his excursions more sharply than he does, but that is the book's virtue.
12) 끝을 ~으로 장식하다 tip something with ~
ex) But even though the subject was Maupassant it took Babel's time with the Cossacks to tip his phrase with iron.
13) 기운찬, 활발한, 빠른 zippy
ex) More familiar in a time of zippy anomie is Donald Barthelme's definition of style.
* anomie 사회적 무질서
14) 근절하다 uproot
ex) Vladimir Nabokov has hauled him into lifelong exile from where, uprooted, he declared that "an original style is the only true honesty any writer can ever claim."
* haul 세게 잡아당기다, 끌고 가다
15) 박식가 polymath
And the baroque polymath, Harold Bloom, denounced Strunkian plainness and transparency.
* baroque (취미 등이) 세련된, (문체가) 장식적인
* plainness 명백, 솔직, 검소