** clean up 치우는 것
여: 우리가 지난 주말에 해변 청소에 자원봉사 갔던 거 있잖아. 생각할수록 뿌듯하고 스스로 자랑스러운 거 있지!
여) I feel so proud and rewarded for volunteering we went for beach clean up last weekend.
책) I’m proud of us for volunteering at the beach clean up last weekend.
** proud of [사람] for [something]= feel great about something that you’ve done.
** volunteer = willingly
수업시간 선생님: Any volunteers? Please raise your hand.
수업시간 학생: I volunteer. 제가 해보겠습니다.
남: 뭔가 몰랐던 것을 깨닫게 된 경험이었어!
남) It was eye-opening!
책) It was eye-opening!
남: 나 데리고 가줘서 고마워!
남) Thank you for taking me there.
책) Thanks for taking me along.
** It was an eye-opening experience.
** take 데려가다
** tag 따라가다/쫓아가다 Can I tag along? 따라가도 돼요?
여: 천만에!
여) My please!
책) No prob!
여: 근데 말이야! 거기에 플라스틱이랑 쓰레기 양이 정말 어마어마하지 않았어?
여) By the way, wasn’t it such a huge amount of plastics and trash there?
책) By the way, can you believe the amount of plastic and trash there?
남: 그게 말이야.
남) Sure!
책) I know
남: 그 바다 생물들이 어망(net)에 걸리는 거 보니깐 마음이 좀 아프더라 heart wrenching.
남) It’s a bit heartbreaking to see the ocean lives caught in the fish nets.
책) and seeing those sea animals getting stuck in nets was heart-wrenching.
** heart-breaking <= more like love emotional type of thing between two people things go really bad. She/he broke my heart.
** heart-wrenching <= beyond human. Nature, animals, something that really breaks your heart outside humans.
여: 그래. 우리 이거 정기적으로 하는 거 어때?
여) Yeah. How about we go regularly?
책) Let’s make it a regular thing, shall we?
** let’s ~~, shall we? ~~ 합시다, 좋죠?
그녀가 춤추는 것을 보니깐 참 황홀했어요!
Watching her dancing was mesmerizing!
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그건 참 감동적이더라!
It was so touching!
출처 EBS 반디 5dang.ebs.co.kr 오디오어학당 Easy English (영어회화 레벨 2) It was eye-opening. 뭔가 몰랐던 것을 깨닫게 된 그런 경험이었어.
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