미드로 영어공부하기: House of Cards (Season 1 / Ep 2)

 

• squeak through: 어떤 일을 간신히 해내다
  mangle: 짓이기다, 심하게 훼손하다
  Why, even if we squeak it through the house, watch them mangle in the senate.
  - Or filibuster. (의회에서 의사 진행 방해자)
• not give a hoot: 조금도 상관하지 않다
  I don't give it a hoot about natural gas, but I have 67 deputy whips and they all need cash to win races.
  
  
• drop the ball: (책임지고 있는 일을 실수로 망치다)
  You are well aware that I do not drop the ball on things like this, Remy.
• The guy is a unicorn. He pisses rainbows.
  그는 흠이 없는 자에요. (= He can do no wrong.)
  
  
• traction: 견인, 사람을 끄는 힘
  You think we can get traction with this? 이걸로 힘이 실릴까?
  
  
• ream somebody: ~를 호되게 꾸짖다/혼내다
  Which means she read the Herald 3 hours ago and spent the past 2 1/2 getting reamed by the president.
  
  
• dime a dozen: 흔해빠진, 평범한
  Linda, I've worked with four presidents. Setbacks are dime a dozen with a bill of this size.
  
  
• I don't take well to being micromanged, Linda.
  
  
• I'm of a mind to say screw it.
  
  
• whealer-dealer: 권모술수에 능한 사람, 수완가
  You know me, I'm not a wheeler dealer.
  
  
• formidable: 어마어마한
  You are formidable. People respect you. Let me be on the sidelines for this.
  
  
• damp the mood: 기분을 망치다
  But why dampen his mood by telling him? We just gave him a great gift, a chance to fulfill his destiny.
  
  
• deep throat: 내부 고발자 (특히 정부의 고관)
  How very deap throat of you!
  
  
• incendiary: 방화의, 자극적인
  That's quite an incendiary quote, don't you think? 꽤 자극적인 문구야, 안 그래?
  For an administration that says that the Middle East is its top foreign policy priority.
  
• tad: 좀
  It's a tad too expensive for me.
  Coud you turn the sound down just a tad?
  
  
• Is this your subtle way of saying that I'm out of shape? 돌려서 말하는건가?
  - No, it's my way of suggesting you could be in better shape.
  - That sounds both passive-aggressive and condescending.
  - Just plain aggressive and true.
  
  
• condescending: 거들먹거리는, 업신여기는
  He has a condescending attitude towards women.
  She thought the teachers were arrogant and condescending.
  
  
• Don't wait up for me. (기다리지말고) 먼저 자).
  
  
• monstrosity: 아주 크고 흉물스러운 것
  Are you going running now?
  - Yes, because I couldn't this morning.
  - Use this monstrosity. It's freezing out. 이 흉측한 기계를 사용해. 밖에 추워
  - You break it in. 당신히 사용해서 길들여.
  - It looks positively medieval, doesn't it? 구닥다리 같지 않나요?
    And to turn my only sanctuary into a fitness dungeon. I won't have it. 용납치 않겠어.
• stretch: (진실 등을) 왜곡/과장하다
  It's a stretch.
  - We are not misleading anyone. He was the editor.
  
  
• fiend: ... 광
  He's a libertarian drug fiend, marinating in a mobile home.
  
  
• there is a merit to ...:  ~에 장점이 있다
  There was some merit to the notion of trickle-down economics, and I feel there is much merit to the idea of trickle-down diplomacy.
  
  
• without a shadow of doubt: 조금도 의심의 여지 없이
  ludicrous: 터무니없는
  I can tell you without a shadow of doubt I did not write these words.
  - But were they in line with your thinking at that time?
  - This is ludicrous.
  
  
• fetching: 멋진, 매력적인
  Is it the improving lives or is it these fetching sweat pants?
  
• hickey: 여드름, 뾰루지, 키스 마크, 인쇄판 등의 흠집 (복수형)
  
  
• Knock 'em dead: 잘해봐
  
  
• rancid: 맛이 변질된, 산패한, 불쾌한, 역겨운
  Somebody open a window. It's rancid in here.
  - That is what happens when six people don't shower for half a week.
  
• conjugal: 부부(관계)의
  conjugal loyalty
  newlyweds still in a rapturous state of conjugal happiness
  
  
• Petting zoo: 아이들이 동물을 만질 수 있는 동물원
  
  
• I won't be a slave to anybody or anything you can order with a toll-free number.
  아무도 날 마음대로 부려먹을 순 없어.
  
• goose step: (못마땅함) 군인들이 다리를 굽히지 않고 높이 들면서 걷는 행진
  My point is, he started goose-stepping in the marionette parade.
  
  
• If I wanted to do this thing, how might I go about that, precisely?
  내가 이걸 하면 정확히 어떻게 진행되는데?
  
  
• no-brainer: 쉬운 결정
  Durant is the way to go. It's no-brainer. The president should stop this pagenat and simply make the call.
  
  
• Turf: 나와바리
  I'll schedule a time for you to fill in the president.
  - No, no, no. That's your turf, Linda. You should do that.
  
  
• reservation: 거리낌, 의구심
  She campaigned hard against us in the primaries.
  - That's my reservation.
  
  
• avail: 도움이 되다, 기회/제의를 이용하다
  You always like a sure thing.
  - When it avails itself. 그런 게 있을 땐 그래.
  Guests are encouraged to avail themselves of the full range of hotel facilities.
  He begged her to reconsider, but to no avail.
  
  
• convalescence: 요양/회복기간
  You need four to six weeks' convalescence.
  
  
• unscrupulous: 부도덕한, 무원칙한(unprincipled)
  An unscupulous businessman manipulated them into selling their land practically for nothing.

• bask in: 관심/칭찬을 누리다 
  He is basking in his teacher's praise.
  He had always basked in his parents' attention.
  Claire and Frank take a moment in the Oval to bask in their victory, although Frank isn't doing much basking.