hustle
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밀치다
정신없는,
우리의 삶은 '두 얼굴'을 하고 있다.
다른 말로 하면 '모순된 삶'에 익숙하다는 말이다.ㅐ
"망아지를 낳으면 제주도로 보내고
자식 (특히 아들)을 낳으면 서울 (대도시)로 보내라,"는 속담은
짐승은 자연과 자주 만나게 해야 하고
사람은 대도시에서 살게 해야 한다는 뜻이다.
내 딸들도 미서부의 도시 San Franciso 에 살면서
집값이 싼 곳으로 이사를 하라고 해도
그들의 주장을 굽히지 않는다.
Two of my daughters have lived in a big city named San Francisco for for a few decades,
and relish the HUSTLE and bustle of a lively metropolis.
나의 두 딸 (물론 가족과 함께) 수 십년을
San Francisco 라고 이름하는 대 도시에 살아왔고
생생한 도시의 복잡한 삶을 즐기고 있다
내 딸의 경우과 반대인 경우도 있다
One of my friends moved to the country
to escape the HUSTLE and bustle of the big city.
내 친구들 가운데 하나는 대도시의 복잡한 삶에서
도피하려고 시골로 이사했다.
hustle 이 '정신없는'이라는 형용사 이외에
다른 의미로도 사용된다.
Your campus life is a time to HUSTLE for you study and chase your dreams.
너의 대학 생활은 네 공부를 위해 그리고
마래를 추구하려고 서두르는 시간이다.
hustle 이 참 다양하게 쓰여서
오늘은 배울 것이 많다고 생각한다.
The police arrested him for his involvement in a drug HUSTLE.
경찰은 그를 마약 밀매 (hustle)와 연루됨으로 체포했다.
The income from my side HUSTLE is like a nice bonus.
나의 부업 (side hustle)에서 생기는 수입은 상여금과 같다.
hustle 의 뿌리는 '앞뒤러 흔든다'는 뜻에서 시작되었는데
특히 '돈을 모자에 넣어서 흔드는 game' 에서 시작된 낱말이다.
You should HUSTLE further if you want to finish your plan.만일 당신의 계획을 끝내기를 원하며더 서둘러야 한다.
You'll have to hustle if you're to get home for supper.
His wife had lived in a big city for her entire life
and relished the hustle and bustle of a lively metropolis
You have to hustle further if you want to finish it.
We're expected to hustle and fight for what we want.
Many fans HUSTLED up some tickets this weekend league.
He grabbed her arm and hustled her out of the room.
I was tired of the hustle and bustle of New York.
The side hustle helped me pay for my textbooks.
The income from the side hustle is a nice bonus.
I'm too busy with my side hustle to take on a full-time job.
College is a time to hustle and chase your dreams.
The hustle and bustle of the city during Christmastime makes it difficult to travel.
I hate all the hustle of Saturday shopping.
The police arrested him for his involvement in a drug hustle.
The city exuberated with hustle and bustle.
넘쳐흐르다
Robert Evans Wilson Jr.
The Main Ingredient
hustle (v.)
1680s (trans.), "to shake to and fro" (especially of money in a cap, as part of a game called hustle-cap), metathesized from Dutch hutselen, husseln "to shake, to toss," frequentative of hutsen, variant of hotsen "to shake." "The stems hot-, hut- appear in a number of formations in both High and Low German dialects, all implying a shaking movement" [OED]. Related: Hustled; hustling. Meaning "push roughly, shove" first recorded 1751. Intransitive sense "bustle, work busily, move quickly" is from 1821.
The key-note and countersign of life in these cities [of the U.S. West] is the word "hustle." We have caught it in the East. but we use it humorously, just as we once used the Southern word "skedaddle," but out West the word hustle is not only a serious term, it is the most serious in the language. [Julian Ralph, "Our Great West," N.Y., 1893]
Sense of "to get in a quick, illegal manner" is 1840 in American English; that of "to sell goods aggressively" is 1887.
also from 1680s
hustle (n.)
"pushing activity; activity in the interest of success," 1891, American English, from hustle (v.) in its later colloquial senses; earlier the noun meant "a shaking together" (1715). Sense of "a swindle, illegal business activity" is by 1963, American English. As the name of a popular dance, by 1975.
also from 1891
ANGER
When Common Sense Kicks In
Personal Perspective: I was ready to fight one bad guy, but not three.
Posted August 11, 2023
Reviewed by Tyler Woods
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Lately, it seems like people are so angry that they’ve lost their common sense. I’ve been that angry, and it almost cost me my life.
When I was in college, I had several side hustles in addition to my regular jobs, one of which was valet parking.
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Inspiration is something everyone craves in life.
Yet in the hustle and bustle of responsibilities, the rush of packed schedules, and the distractions of devices and social media, we can often feel devoid of inspiration.
The family of a high school friend owned a valet parking business, and whenever I needed to make a few extra bucks, I would phone him to see if he needed to fill any shifts.
He usually did, as they provided the valet parking service for several Atlanta restaurants.
It was on one of those occasions that my common sense kicked in just in time to save me from serious injury or worse.
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Discos Attracted Baby Boomers Like Moths to a Flame
It was the late 1970s—the Disco Era—and many restaurants in Atlanta that had converted their bars into discotheques, complete with parquet wooden dance floors, mirror balls, flashing lights, and disc jockeys who would fill the air with the booty-shaking music of KC and the Sunshine Band, Donna Summer, and the Bee Gees. This was all for the swarming hordes of 20- and 30-something Baby Boomers looking to be like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.
I picked up a mid-week shift at one of the lesser-known discos, which meant I was working the parking lot alone. The restaurant/discotheque had valet parking only and a cover charge to get inside after 8 p.m.
About 50 feet from the front door, there was a tall, freestanding, locked wooden cabinet where I kept the car keys and ticket stubs on numbered hooks inside.
A Western Bar Would’ve Made Common Sense for These Three
I had parked about 50 cars when three men pulled in. When they learned it was valet only, they left, squealing their tires in protest, but I saw them pull into the parking lot of the office building next door, which was up on a hill above the disco.
From my station by the front door, I watched them carefully climb down a steep dirt hill into my parking lot and then walk to the door. They were wearing blue jeans and t-shirts, which was not the typical dressy-casual attire worn by the young, upwardly mobile disco-dancing crowd.
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When they found out they had to pay a cover charge, they left angrily and cussed loudly as they stormed back toward their car.
Then, as they walked past my key cabinet, they stopped and pushed it over onto its face.
It hit the ground with a loud crash, and I could hear keys being knocked off their hooks and separated from the numbers which told me where each car was parked.
My Anger Made Me Foolhardy
I was furious; not only did these bullies create more work for me, but if I had to ask the patrons which key was theirs and what kind of car they drove, then I was going to make fewer tips.
(It turned out to be much worse—when I asked people to identify their keys and tell the make of their car, they simply grabbed their keys and said, “I can see my car; I’ll just get it myself.”
So I ended up working for almost nothing that night.)
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I ran over to the cabinet, lifted it up, unlocked the door, and saw that, indeed, most of the keys had come off their hooks.
I was so mad that I screamed profanities at the three men, two of whom were scrambling up the dirt hill to their car. The third one turned around and looked at me, so I flipped him off.
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My Anger Made Me Feel Powerful
He then started running toward me, very fast. I was so angry and full of adrenaline that I welcomed his advance because I had every intention of punching him so hard that I would knock him out.
I planted my feet, balled my fists, and raised my arms in full readiness for combat.
When he was halfway to me, one of his friends noticed what was going on and started running toward me as well.
My anger made me feel incredibly powerful and I wanted revenge, so I stood my ground, thinking, “I’ll lay out the first one as soon as he gets here, then take on the second.”
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Suddenly, the third man turned around and started scrambling back down the hill. It was a long parking lot, and it would take him a bit to catch up to his friends, but fortunately, my common sense kicked in.
There were three men running toward me as fast as they could. It only took a fraction of a second, but the logic of the situation made itself apparent to me. If I didn’t lay out the first bully with one punch, then I was going to have to fight two and then three men. If one of them tackled me and got me on the ground, they could all punch and kick me at will, possibly breaking my bones and inflicting fatal internal bleeding.
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Logic and Reason Finally Occurred to Me
When the first guy was 10 yards away, I turned around and ran as fast as I could into the building. Fortunately, the bouncer and the manager were standing nearby. I grabbed them both, quickly told them what was going on, and then we walked out the front door and stood three abreast in front of it.
With the odds now equalized, my three aggressors turned around and left. The bouncer and manager stayed outside with me until it was clear that they were not coming back.
Mistakes Aren’t Bad—If You Learn From Them
There is an old saying: “Making good decisions comes from experience; experience comes from making bad decisions.” We acquire that experience from the moment we are born, and cumulatively that creates our common sense. Simple things at first: Don’t touch hot objects; if it smells bad, don’t eat it; blue and yellow make green; don’t take stuff that isn’t yours; play fair; and don’t get into cars with strangers. These gradually advance into competencies like situational awareness, conceptual and creative thinking, emotional control, and social skills. In short, we learn to compare the risks and rewards of a decision before we make it.
We are born with a natural ability—our senses and memory—to judge good from bad and right from wrong.
Unfortunately, societal indoctrination is constantly telling us what we should do and how we should do it, and this tends to denigrate common sense over time, turning us into sheep-like followers. The problem is that if we stop thinking critically then we can be manipulated by others.
If something sounds too good to be true... then that’s your common sense working for you. Let it work!
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