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Without further ado Without further ado, here are the standout pieces of advice we heard in 2019 - presented with hopes that you can apply them to make your next decade even brighter. Without further/more ado wihtout wasting more time * ado : delay or unnecessary activity (불필요한 소란/야단법석) And so, without further ado, let me introduce tonight's speaker. much ado about the need to reform ​ ​ 2020. 2. 5.
Gnarly Greenwald recalls having to get up to speed for a story on network security, a particularly gnarly topic for an outsider. ​ ​ GNARLY 기가 막힌, 끝내주는 / 매우 어려운(difficult, dangerous, challenging) / 불쾌한(unpleasant, unattractive) used to describe something exetreme, especially something that is very dangerous and exciting The waves were what surfers would call "pretty gnarly." She battled through the gna.. 2020. 2. 4.
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.