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ELUSIVE ELUSIVE 찾기/규정하기/달성하기 힘든 difficult to describe, find, achive or remember The answers to these questions remain elusive as ever. Sucess, however, remains elusive for her. ​ ​ ​ 2020. 2. 2.
Shrewd But this knowledge, which the shrewdest perceptions of the mind would not have given me, had now been brought to me, hard, glittering, strange, like a crystallised salt, by the abrupt reaction of pain. SHREWD 기민한, 상황판단이 빠른 having or based on a clear understanding and good judgment of a situation, resulting in an advantage He was shrewd enough not to take the job when there was the possibility of.. 2020. 2. 1.
Jolt Proust's protagonist, Marcel, has rationally convinced himself that he no longer loves his beloved, Albertine, but is jolted into confronting the falsity of that rationalization upon receiving news of her death. JOLT 갑자기 거칠게(덜컥거리며) 움직이다, (어떤 행동조치를 취하도록) 충격을 주다 / 정신이 번쩍 들게 하다 to cause (someone or something) to move suddenly and violently to shock someone in order to change their behavior or way o.. 2020. 1. 31.
Bramble / Perennially Nowhere is our capacity for enchantment, nor our capacity for self-deception, greater than in love - the region of human experience where the path to truth is most obsructed by the bramble of rationalization and where we are most likely to be kidnapped by our own delicious delusions. There, it is perennially difficult to know what we really want; difficult to distinguish between love and lust; d.. 2020. 1. 30.
Scoff Skeptics might scoff at this notion, arguing that parents just need to grow a spine and say 'no.' But the reality is that parents do say 'no' - over and over again. SCOFF 비웃다, 조롱하다 to laugh and talk about a person or idea in a way that shows that you think they are stupid or silly The critics scoffed at his painting. Years ago people would have scoffed at the idea that cars would be built by rob.. 2020. 1. 29.
Pester Children are much easier to reach with advertising. They pick up on it fast and quite often we can exploit that relationship and get them pestering their parents. PESTER (특히 자꾸 부탁하여) 성가시게 하다, 조르다(badger) to behave in an annoying manner towards someone by doing or asking something repeatedly At the frontier, there were people pestering tourists for ciagaretts, food, or alcohol. John has been pest.. 2020. 1. 28.