영어기사 공부하기: We Had to Leave the Bank

1. 본 포스팅은 영어기사를 제대로 들어다보는 시간입니다.

2. 본 포스팅의 출처는 "오성호" 선생님의 Live Class 강의를 기반으로 했음을 밝혀 드립니다.

오성호 영어채널 : 네이버 카페

---

# We were college students, working next to each other as bank tellers. Eileen thought I was an obnoxious loudmouth. I thought she was stuck up, never responding to my jokes. One day, I overheard her talking to another co-worker about picking up school supplies for the upcoming semester. I invited myself along. Outside of the bank, we were able to see each other in a new light. Eileen was reserved, not rude. I wasn’t always a flippant buffoon. We laughed and bonded over our Dominican heritage. Eighteen years later, we now visit the bank together, along with three beautiful girls. — Henry Suarez

 

* loudmouth 수다쟁이 

* obnoxious 불쾌한 = unpleasant

* stuck-up 콧대 높은

* school supplies 학용품

* invite yourself 불청객

* reserved : 주지 않고 가지고 있는 것 (찜해놓다)  = 내성적

* reservoir 저수지(물을 보유하고 있다)

* buffoon = clown 광대

* flippant 실없는 / 이랬다저랬다 = too casual, not serious

---

# A Note From a Stranger

 

I sat crying in a Nashville emergency room, more than 9,000 miles from my Australian home. I was having a bad reaction to a medication. A gray-haired woman across the room looked at me with kind eyes. As the nurse escorted her to another room, she handed me a note that said, “You are not alone.” Later, she returned, and asked if I was all right. I learned she was dying of lung cancer. How unexpected and moving — that toward the end of her life, she was thinking of me, a stranger in a waiting room. — Kate Cowling

 

* a note 쪽지

* a memo = memorandum 회람

* cry 엉엉 울다 (소리가 나야 함)

* gray-haired 백발의

* across the room 방 반대편(*멀리 떨어져 있음)

* 모르다가 알게 되는 것 : find, learn (vs 확신 know)

* be ~ing  확정

* be dying of lung cancer 시한부 확정

* toward ~즈음, 무렵