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• sullen - 뚱한
• retreat from the front - 물러나다 (의견을 바꾸다 등)
• snob - 속물? 
• pensive - quiet and thinking seriously. He looked pensive. 골똘히 생각에 잠긴
• pick up stompies 중간에 들어와서 잘못이해하고 껴드는 행동
• stranded 고립되다 (돈이 없거나 교통이 없어서)
• have one's fortune told 
• flunk out of school 성적 등이 안좋아서 쫒겨나다 (수동태로 쓰지 않는다)
• hard sell 하드셀 aggressive selling
• chuck 툭 던지다, 그만두다 관두다
• weed out 골라내서 제거하다 (약한 거 등 골라내다)
• carve out - create, make 
  • carve out a niche
  • carve out time/space
  • carve out a career
• touchy about 예민한
• autobiography 자서전
• rundown 디테일한 정보들, 축소 (사이즈나 퀄리티)
  • rundown house : 방치된 집

We were talking about politics at a cafe and when we started to mention the energy issues, this man came to our seat and began this hard sell. He invented a new solar power panel that everyone can use, so the thing he found the most proud was that it can help people stranded somewhere with this portable panel. Man, I can't carve out time for hearing the rundown of your invention, you're picking up stompies. However, Emma found this practical for camping so she bought one. The man is going to another man in other table who looks pretty pensive. Emma told me I looked sullen and I didn't have to look like this. I got upset and chucked the car key to her and left. Why am I so touchy about people pointing out my attitude? At home, I went to my room and stood in front of my shelf. What do I want to read? I weeded out boring books and eventually I picked an autobiography. This person flunk out of school young and after having had someone his fortune told, he decided to travel. I felt like I am a snob tonight. I could've retreated when emma said I need to chill. 

a sullen silence, he said sullenly. 

I'm a bit of a wine snob.

He left me stranded in town. If the tide comes in, we'll be stranded

The very first round of interviews only serves to weed out the very weakest of applicants.

I wanted to retreat to my routines and comfort. Visitors can find plenty of restaurants when it's time to retreat from the sun, To save yourself, you sometimes need to retreat from the world.

Chuck that book to me. Chuck it over there the corner. Chuck me the keys.

I need to carve out some time in my schedule for exercise.

the rundown of the health service

• in all likelihood = very likely
• overcompensate 과잉보상하다
• aforementioned = mentioned earlier [AH]
• come rain or shine = whatever happens, no matter what
• as it unfolds -> this emphasises the idea of experiencing or witnessing in a real time manner, without expectiations or prior knowledge, predictions
• hasty {HEYsti} 성급한
• entanglement 얽혀있는 것
• out of the question = not possible / now allowed
• cash in on -financial advantage 를 위해 기회를 이용하다 take advantages of 하다
• raise one's voice = speak loudly
• withholding 주지않는
  (withholding tax- 원천징수)
• tie breaker 양측이 동점일때 판가름을 위해 하는 엑스트라 액티비티
• attention span 집중할 수 있는 시간
• interject 말 끼어들다 (let me interject on that)

The show displays a few entanglements of couples. One of these couples, this lesbian couple is especially very complicated. One of them can't help interjecting when the other one is talking. This couple, in all likelifood, is not going to work very well. They are very aware of this peoblem and because of the aforementioned habit, they overcompensate  for this problem, so ends up generating worse consequential issues, making hasty decisions and raising their voice. But even after the show, this couple is still together. I don't know if the show was withholding some parts and framed them like this bad to cash in on the drama they create. Tomorrow, a live streaming will be happening on social media. My attention span will be highly increase! We'll get to see everything behind the scene as the streaming unfolds tomorrow. Some people think they were acting and some people believed in the sincerity, so that one is going to be a tie breaker. Although the show producer seems to take a dim view of this streaming that could go out of control. Becuase of this they said viewer comment is out of the question, unfortunately. Anyway, the live will come rain or shine!

NOTHING will ever COMPENSATE for his lost childhood, His enthusiasm more than compensate for his lack of experience.

Chris overcompensates for his lack of heigh by being a clown.

Come rain or shine, I'll see you on Monday. 

I just observed and listened as it unfolds, I'll see how the match unfolds.

hasty decision, hasty conclusion, we were a little hasty in judging him

Her family has been accused of cashing in on her death

I know you're upset, but no need to raise your voiceh

• stoned = high 
• bulletin board 게시판
• tear gas (used to control crowds of people)
• put money/cash down = if you put down some money, you pay part
• ease up = to gradually stop, become less = to treat someone less harsh
• indoctrinate 가르쳐서 받아들이게 하다
• impersonal = without human wealth/ 이름 지칭하지 않고 it 등을 써서 말하는 것
• (add) personal touch 고유하고 특별한 퀄리티를 부여하는 것
• hit the sack = go to bed
• go down in flames = to fail spectacularly
• gullible 잘속는
• triumph 큰 성공, 성취
• vigilant 주의깊은
• revamp = change and arrange again to improve

I was so stoned and now the feeling started to ease up. Tears came out weirdly like tear gas was near. The first thing I tried to do was arranging a laptop deal, and they asked me to put some cash down. It was a pretty good deal, so I checked a few stuff - I'm not really gullible and I find myself pretty vigilant. Today I picked up the new device, it was pretty clean. I wanted to add some personal touch on the shiny laptop, so tried painting on the cover. It looked bad and it went down in flames kinda. I had to hit the sack. This morning I took a look at it again It looks messy and looks like a bulletin board in a way. This looks strange but If i had been indoctrinated that this is real art and beautiful, would that have looked good and a triumph? I planned for a revamp. I posted this on a website and I liked the impersonal approach when they criticised my work. 

If the father doesn't ease up on him, he's going to leave home.
At last the rain began to ease up.

Ease up on the accelator (to apply less pressure to)

we revamped the management system

They have been indoctrinated by television to believe that violence is normal

She has a very cold and impersonal manner. Hospitals always seem impersonal.

Impersonal criticism

They need to be more vigilant in checking bags

• have (heart) palpitaions 두근거림, 정상이상으로 빨리뛰는 심장
• rudimentary = basic
• upend 뒤집다 
• set/stand something on end - 끝을 세우다 or 바로 세우다
• have nerve =. have audacity
• pout about something - 에 대해서 입을 삐죽하다
• whirlwind 굉장히 빠르고 예상치못하게 전개되는
• musings : 깊은 고찰에서 나온 생각과 코멘트
• fabled 전설적인
• put a pin in my work = to take a break (with plans to resume the thing later)
• painstakingly 공들여서 , 피땀어린
• pedantic 본질보다 보여지는거나 사소한 디테일과 형식에 매달리는 것
• distress 스트레스, 도움이 절실한 상황
• unwavering 다른데 쳐다보지 않는 움직이지 않는, 계속되는
• prudent 현명하고 조심스러운

As a child, I was always in distress. My home didn't feel like home. My childhood was just a whirlwind. Because of this background, I became very prudent at very early age. I found my frinds in the class immature, which actually is supposed to be since they were literally kids. I was able to share musings getting grasp of big pictures rather than being pedantic, when the friends were pouting about not getting enough video game times. It was around 10years ago I met her in the school. Ms.M was pretty insightful and she noticed that I was acting a little differently. After class she would make me stay in the classroom and ask some questions about me and my family. I thought she had nerve that she was asking about something that isn't within normal social boundary. But this actually upended my life and all my perspective. because of her unwavering support for me to persue my dream and a normal life, I put a pin in being grumpy towards her and finally opened up with her. I was so used to having high heart palpitaion out of random, surprisingly, I was able to cure this talking a lot with her. She's not one of those fabled historians of something, still I give her name whenever I get asked who I admire the most. The whole process was pretty painstakingly difficult. But she set me on end, with rudimentary knowledge.

I only have the most rudimentary grasp of the language. My knowledte is only rudimentary.

She upended the chessboard halfway through the game because she was losing.

The intern has some nerve asking for a raise on her first day. You really have a nerve.

painstaking research

The animal was in distress, signs of distress, that caused extreme emotional distress.

a whirlwind tour/visit, an emotional whirlwind, a whirlwind romance, at a whirlwind pace /// My life has been a whirlwind lately. 

He upended the can, and swallowed. 

musing: 생각깊은 musing comments, musing responses

She pouts her lips when she's putting on lipstck.

The fabled creature

her unwavering faith, support, commitment 

• win by a whisker 간발의 차로 이기다
• rant and rave about = talk loudly and angrily in an uncontrolled way
• I read you loud and clear = I can understand exactly.
• tertiary (tertiary education, tertiary industry)
• set in one's way - when they have fixed habits and ideas which they will not easily change, (old fashioned.)
• utilize = to use something in an effective way
• in part = to some degree
• out to = to be determinded to, aiming to do
• on the spur of the moment 계획에 없던, 갑작스러운 (a spur of the moment decision)
• hindrance 장애물 (without hindrance, any hindrances)
• aggregate 것ㅌ - 집합체 = total (형용사로)
• janky - very bad in quality or condition
• imminent - happening soon
• impending - something unpleasant or unwanted that is going to happen soon

Andy was very smart but sneaky. Like, street smart, he didn't even take tertiary education. He won by a whisker in the competition by making the other candidate distracted by a couple ranting and raving about some news near the set. He knows how to utilize situations and people around him. However, he couldn't do anything when he faced the imminent accident in his car. Often our brain stops when we see an obvious impending situation. That urgency serves as a hinderance in part. He's now in hospital. The public room was pretty much an aggregate of janky things. The room was full of old peole, and they were so set in their ways, his attempt to manipulate their mind was like a water off duck's back. When I got to his hospital room, I could read him loud and clear. He was out to escape the room. That was not a spur of the moment decision.

You should spend less time ranting and raving about how unfair your professor is and spend mroe time actually studying the material.

impending/imminent disaster. Her death is imminent. Their impending marriage.

Snowflakes are loose aggregates of ice crystals. An aggregate profit of $10.2 millions.

The company is simply out to make larger profit.

As people get older, they often become set in their ways.

The vitamins come in a form that is easily utilized by the body. / The library's great collection allowed me to utilize many rare resources.

Stress worsens the problem

The accident were due in part to the bad weather.

The level of blood gluose depend in part on what you eat.

• roll out the red carpet = to welcome someone as a very important person
• dawn on -에게 분명해지다, 깨닫게 되다, 이해되기 시작하다
• peter out = gradually becoming smaller, weaker, less 
• hold one's tongue = to not speak 참는 뉘앙스
• save one's breath =  말할 가치가 없으니 숨을 아끼겠다는 뉘앙스 (레)
• intergrity 궁극적으로는 무결점의 상태를 말한다고 함- 진실성, 첨렴성, 윤리적으로도 엄격한 기준을 가지고 일을 처리하는 것
• parse through = examine, understand thoroghly and detaily
• delineation 딜리니에이션 - 묘사하다(clear outline, character, boundaries)
• guesswork 추측으로한일, 추측하는과정
• squircle = squarish circle
• axis 축
• asymptote 점근선 그래프에서 곡선과 같은 방향 하지만 절대 만나지 않는
• configure = 설정하다, 설정을 바꾸다 (컴퓨터 시스템에서)
• a laptop configuration consists of GB, SSD, hard disk, USB ports

If there will be a senier level member joining us, they would roll out the red carpet. But no candidates match what they were looking for. If one matches the level of intergrity, they lack of confidence. And one was really good at configuring layouts to optimise user experience, but they relyed on guesswork a lot so wasn't a good fit. It's just like a curve and it's asymptote. (The CEO is in the middle of axis, not even close.) Becuase it was really hard to hire a right person, I had to parse through the documents on my own. It's already been a while since it dawned on them that they need more people. So HR team posted a role on many websites with delineation. There were so many candidates but they were all same so the leader just saved his breath. Before I left the job, I wanted to tell them they need a compromise, but they wouldn't listen to me, so I held my tongue. I hope you keep your intergrity and not peter out. If there's no squircle on the menu, you should control radious.

it started to dawn on me (분명해지기 시작했다) The meaning suddenly dawned on me. It finally dawned on him that she'd been joking. It suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't eaten all day.

The romantic relationship petered out after the summer. It began to peter out

 might as well save my breath 레-명사/ 리e - 동사

The team had to parse through thousands of lines of code to identify the bug. 

• lead up to 그 일이 일어나기 전까지
• in lieu = instead, in lieu of = instead of
• deprecate = 승인하지않다, 부정하다(비난, 부정적)
• inquistive - asking many questions, too curious (negative)
• asynchronous = not occuring at the same time, independently.
• sporadically 산발적으로 sometimes but not regularly or continuously
• low haning fruit = something that is easy to obtain
• have a knack for = have a natural ability, skill to do that.
• interpersonal skills = social skills, people skills
• take a stab at (뛰어나진 못해도, 자주나 잘 하는 건 아니라도) 시도해보다
• take the fall for. = to accept the blame for something another person did
• up one's alley = 취향에 맞는, 딱 맞는, 

In this company, communications happen remotely. Because of that all the employees work asynchronously, but scheduled and unscheduled meetings happen sporadically too. This style was actually up my alley, also given that my interpersoanl skills are very bad, I was in love with this style. Once new hire joined the team and started to turn the tide. He scheduled regular meetings in lieu of messenger communication, and all the team members deprecated. He was in the provocation period, and leading up to the end of the provocation, wanted to take a stab at for new methods. We kinda put our foot down firmly saying we're not gonna take the fall for, and I thought he had a knack for annoying people, but this challenging, inquistive attitude grabbed CEO's attention so he got promoted right away. It wasn't low hanging fruits, so i started to believe him as a leader and decided to take a leap of faith. 

I was very anxiois in the time leading up to the event. What exactly led up to his resignation? Many voters were still undicided in the days leading up to the election. Leading up to the wedding, I was really nervous.

People who are self-deprecating downplay their abilities because they are humble -or want to appear that way.

I love books so volunteering at the library is up my alley. That's right up my alley, I'd love to do it.

• throw hands - 주먹질하다
• negate 부정하다
• every inch = exactly like or everything
• squeak through(by) 간신히 manage to pass, survive, win ...
• hit upon (on)  = to suddenly have an idea
• shake off =떨쳐내다 (병, 경찰차, 나쁜것들) get rid of an illness (shake off the cold)
• spell out = explain something in a very clear way with details.
• shelf life = the lenghth of time that something remains useful, popular
• second that motion = agree with the idea/suggestion
• tender 일, 계약에 대한 가격을 offer 제시하다 (공식적으로) (put out to tender, put in the tender)
• flat out = as fast (hard) as possible, directly, simply 
• chronological 연대순으로, 시간순으로 (in reverse chronological order)
• as a matter of course 자연스러운것 당연한순서같은 것

Every inch of him reminds me of John, my old friend. He was a locally popular rapper a few years ago. Once he threw hands with his stalker, and because of that he got under arrest and had to spell out everything chronologically and that kind of negate the work he achieved until then. He went to the prison. He could've jusst shaken off that stalker as opposed to flat out throwing hands. I was involved, but somehow I managed to squeak through with a warning. One other prisoner recognized him and tendered some work for him. "You better do it, your shelf life is over." He got mad at him at first but he knew being treated like this is a matter of course..in here, and then hit on an idea to use him to get out of prison, so he answered "I second that motion." 

Dude, he's gonna throw hands when he finds out you kissed his gf.

Alcohol can negate the effects of some medicines.

She looked every inch a vampire in her costume. Every inch of her bedroom wall is covered with photos of pop stars.

I squeaked through (by) the driver's test. I thought for sure I had failed the exaa, but I managed to squeak through with a D.

When we first hit on the idea, everyone thought It would never work.

a motion : a formal suggestion made in a meeting. (I'll second that = i agree with you)

running flat out, working flat out , he flat out said he wouldn't do it.