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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 .. 2020. 10. 11.
미드로 영어공부하기: House of Cards (Season 1 / Ep 1) House of Cards 뜻 미드 House of cards 는 원래 트럼프 카드로 탑을 쌓는 놀이를 일컫는데, 권력을 위해 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는 주인공 프랭크 언더우드가 언제 파멸할지 알 수 없는 상황을 빗댄 것으로, 사상누각이라고 해석할 수 있겠다. latched onto: ~에 들러붙다 I latched onto him early on and made myself vital. He latched onto her arm and wouldn't let go. Lassitude: 무기력함, 권태/낙담 I keep things moving in a congress choked by pettiness and lassitude. (=langour) the langour of convalenscence .. 2020. 10. 11.
Tactile / Obfuscate / Bauble Make credit card purchases feel tactile. A credit card looks the same before and after the transaction, obfuscating what was actually given up for that bauble. Remove payment informatoin from your computer. TACTILE 촉감의 The tactile sensation of typing out words has always has been a big deal for writers. The provision of tactile stimulation at regular intervals also stimulates recovery. ​ ​ ​ OBF.. 2020. 2. 29.
Moor And yet language is inherently moored to the territory of an outer country - to the lexicon, vocabulary, and folkloric tonge of a people and a place. MOOR 잡아매다, 계류하다, 정박시키다 To tie a boat so that it stays in the same place We moored further up the river. We moored the boat to a large tree root. ​ ​ ​ 2020. 2. 23.
Aneal Language is not the content of thought but the vessel that carries thought, the vessel into which we pour the ambivalences and contradictions of our thinking in order to anneal our understanding of the world. ANNEAL (금속이나 유리를 불에 달궜다가 천천히 식혀) 강화시키다, 담금질하다 / 단련하다 to make metal/glass soft by heating and then cooling it slowly Annealing is the process of heating a part to cuase its structure to reor.. 2020. 2. 22.
Coruscating By the time Gilchrist encountered Whitman’s soul-salving poetry, which she helped popularize in England with her coruscating review, she had been widowed for more than a decade, raising her four children as a single mother and making a living by her pen in an era when very few women were published authors. CORUSCATING 빛나는, 생기(번뜩이는 기지)가 넘치는 flashing brightly / extremely intelligent and exciting o.. 2020. 2. 21.