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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/learning/how-punctual-are-you.html

요약

The article says the punctuality has become one of the paramount elements in our lives; as we go throguh pandemic, online gatherings which don't require traveling times now have settled down as a norm. There are pretinent changes as well. When it comes to restaurants, people book for meals more than before and dinner time got a little moved up because people don't need to commute and get changed stopping by home.

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1. Are you always on time, or are you known for arriving late? How has the pandemic changed your relationship with time?

2. How do you feel about people who are more or less punctual than you are?

3. ...a change that seems to have arisen from a pandemic now in its third year.

새로 배운 단어

1. hold up - to delay someone or something
(...no longer held up by commytes or workplace gossip sessions.)

2. weave A into B - to include A in B(story, plan etc)
(...people are able to weave school pick-ups and other child care duties into their workdays)

3. paramount - more important than anything else
(Punctuality is paramount as we are going through a re-evaluation of our relationship to time.)

4. virtue - a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being morally good.
(the virtues of punctuality)

5. Amid - among; in the middle of or surrounded by
(amid the applause)

6. surge - a sudden and great increase
(We see a real surge in online reservation activity,)