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The president appeared indignant and unwilling to concede defeat in a 26-minute speech that marked the close of a 20-year chapter.
tacit 암묵적으로
tact 요령 눈치 재치
tactics 전술 병법 용병 작전행동
tack 방침 방향 침로
Joe Biden tacitly blamed his predecessors for the failure of America’s longest war but implied that, against all odds, one winner had emerged: him.
Yet, Biden strode up the red carpet of the White House entrance hall like Barack Obama when he announced the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. 성큼성큼 걷다
pensive 근심스럽게 (1300-1400) French pensif, from penser “to think”
pend 매달리다
Behind him were four flags, a bust of George Washington and, just out of sight, a portrait John F Kennedy looking down pensively – heavy is the head that wears the crown. 바로 눈앞에서
Inside the ornate state dining room, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln hung above a fireplace.
A photographer stood atop a tall stepladder, surrounded by glaring studio lights as if at a fashion shoot. 패션 촬영
A wood-carved American eagle held up an antique table beside the presidential lectern. 독서대 성서대
dismal 암울한 질낮은 솜씨없는
dismay 경악 실망
Biden began speaking forcefully as soon he reached that lectern and defended not only the decision to withdraw but the dismal manner of its execution.
resent 분개하다
resend 다시보내다 돌려보내다
brag 자랑하다 떠벌리다
brave 용감한
White House officials have resented the charge of bragging but that did not stop Biden proclaiming: “No nation — no nation — has ever done anything like it in all of history.”
slice 베다
slide 미끌어지다
Biden sliced the air with his hand and, yet again, appeared indignant and unwilling to concede that he might have gotten anything even slightly wrong.
malfeasance 불법행위 나쁜짓
feasible 실현가능한
feast 연회 잔치 축제 맘껏 먹다
feed 먹이다 먹이를 주다 먹다
He again cast blame on the US-backed Afghan government for collapsing, its president fleeing amid “corruption” and “malfeasance”, and the Afghan army for failing to fight the Taliban.
transpire 돌아나오다 증산하다 임이 알려지다
bi-as[둘중 하나로 치우친]
vaunted 자랑하다 허풍떨다 Old French vanter, from Late Latin vanitare “to boast”, from Latin vanitas; → VANITY
The president’s much-vaunted empathy, it transpires, does not travel well; it has a domestic bias. 편견 편향
He was more convincing in arguing that people do not understand “how much we have asked of the 1% [of Americans] who put on the military uniform” and describing how many of their families have “gone through hell”. 요구하다
Eighteen veterans on average die by suicide every day in the US, he noted, his voice lowering to become gravelly and grave. In a nation where most military families live in counties that voted for Donald Trump, and where for the past 20 years they were often forgotten, it was an important grace note. 자갈/ 은총의 쪽지
heir 상속자 (1300-1400) Old French Latin heres
heritage 유산
inherit 상속받다 물려받다
cord 줄 노끈cordon 저지선
contingent on 에 따라
continue 계속하다 이어지다
That accord, signed with the Taliban a year earlier, did not make the promised US withdrawal on 1 May contingent on any political settlement inside Afghanistan, and it allowed the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
By the time I came to office the Taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country, ~에 대하여 경쟁을 벌이다
commit 저지르다 약속하다 전념하다 쓰다 결정하다 수감하다
(1300-1400) Latin committere, from com- ( → COM-) + mittere “to send”
So we’re left with a simple decision: either follow through on the commitment made by the last administration and leave Afghanistan, or say we weren’t leaving and commit tens of thousands more troops, going back to war.
enthusiasm 열광 Greek enthousiasmos, from entheos “filled (by a god) with sudden strong abilities”, from theos “god”
But there was limited enthusiasm for the way Biden went about it.
accurate 정확한 (1500-1600) Latin past participle of accurare “to take care of”, from ad- “to” + cura “care”
Biden admitted that the assumption that the Afghan security forces would be able to hold out for some time following the US withdrawal “turned out not to be accurate”.
Up to half of world’s wild tree species could be at risk of extinction
pose 제기하다 뻐기다 자세를 취하다 인 체하다
Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction, posing a risk of wider ecosystem collapse, the most comprehensive global stocktake to date warns.
so far 어느 정도까지 지금까지
by far 훨씬
Forest clearance for farming is by far the biggest cause of the die-off
amphibian 양서류
amph- 양측 이중 쌍 amphbious 수륙양용의 해병대의 양서류의
amplify 증폭시키다
ample 충분한 풍만한
The five-year, international study found 17,510 species of trees are threatened, which is twice the number of threatened mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles combined. 파충류(~tile)
But the proportion at risk is likely to be higher as a further 7.1% were deemed “possibly threatened” and 21.6% were insufficiently evaluated.
The problem was evident across the globe.
disproportionate 불균형적인
proportion 비례 비율 균형
ebony 흑단나무
whitebeam 마가목류
rowan. 마가목
Tropical island states, notably Madagascar, are disproportionately affected, particularly ebony and rosewood, but even in Europe – which is relatively poor in terms of natural diversity – there has been an alarming decline in numbers of whitebeams and rowan.
botanist 식물학자
botany 식물학
Botanists describe trees as “the backbone of the natural ecosystem”.
Although only 0.2% of species have become extinct so far, the authors say an accelerating decline could have dire knock-on effects. 지독한 나쁜
sequestration 격리
sequester 격리시키다
Humans are directly affected by the loss of carbon sequestration, oxygen production, timber for construction, fuel for fires, ingredients for medicine and food, buffers from storms, and the wellbeing that comes from shade and beauty.
Arguably more important are the indirect impacts on natural life-support systems. 주장하건대 틀림없이
In many parts of the world, trees are the pillars of a healthy ecosystem. 기둥(pillow 베개)