The engine conked out halfway there.

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conk
noun [ C ] UK informal humorous
uk /kɒŋk/ us /kɑːŋk/
a nose


The engine conked out halfway there.
→ 가는 도중에 엔진이 멈춰 버렸어요.
→ 거기 가는 중간쯤에 엔진이 고장 나서 멈췄어요.

여기서 there는 문맥상 이미 언급된 목적지를 가리킵니다.


표현 풀이

engine = 엔진
conk out = 갑자기 멈추다, 고장 나서 작동을 멈추다
halfway there = 거기 가는 도중 절반쯤에서 / 거의 중간쯤에

특히 conk out은 자동차·기계 등이 갑자기 작동을 멈추는 상황에서 일상적으로 쓰는 표현입니다.

My car conked out on the way home.
집에 오는 길에 차가 갑자기 멈췄어요.

The computer conked out.
컴퓨터가 갑자기 고장 났어요.


conk
verb [ T ] infml
us /kɑŋk, kɔŋk/

to hit someone on the head:

A book fell from the shelf and conked him on the head.

conk
verb [ T ] informal humorous
uk /kɒŋk/ us /kɑːŋk/

to hit someone, usually on the head with a heavy object



We are now dealing with conked meat as an article of diet.

I should have "conked out" many years ago.

Thousands of boys would be extremely interested in knowing what goes wrong when a petrol-driven vehicle conks out on the public highway.

He works for a living, and if that leg conks out he no longer has a spare.


The bulldog is conked by a falling anvil, and ends up swallowing the whistle, triggering a case of the hiccups, each one of which causes the whistle to go off.

The conk section has an average of three, 130 to 540 m diameter tubes per millimeter.

The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal.