- gobsmacked 놀라서 말을 못하는 상태
- run the show 책임자인, 통제하는
- mark my words! 내 말 기억해! (특히 미래에 이 일이 생길거라 확신- 경고)
- vilify 비난하다 (그래서 다른 사람도 그렇게 생각하게)- 명성을 손상시키는
- slander 명예를 손상시키는 false spoken statement
- heft 무게, 중량, 영향
- the odds/cards are stacked against 성공 가능성이 낮은
- with that = and then/ immediately after doing that
- recapitulate = recap 요약정리
- trepidation 떨림, 긴장되고 두려운감정
- food scraps 은 어쩔 수 없이 나오는 음식물 찌꺼기 food waste 는 먹을 수 있는데 낭비되는것
- compost 퇴비/ 퇴비를 주다
- far-off 먼
My brother's business was not ethical. It produced plenty of waste, especially food waste. I told him that at least he needs to find a way to use the food scraps as compost, otherwise the odds will likely be stacked against him but he insisted on sticking to his original plan. He believed utmost profits is the best thing to do, saying "mark my words! I'll prove it in the future!" very confidently. But in the not far-off future, the world proved he was wrong. The police came visit my family for investigaion, with that, they took my brother. They asked who's running the show and my parents were gobsmacked at the scene my brother was getting handscuffed. His business had a pretty big heft on the city's environment, and the activists in the city has been vilifying him since he started the business. He really looked down on them and didn't even accused them of a slander. The trepidation encompassed me. To recapitulate, a business not considering the environment can't be successful.
Does he have the intellectual heft to run the city?
So, to recapitulate, I've made three points.
trepidation about starting a new job
in the far-off future 먼 미래의
a far-off land 먼 지역