My company has offered me support with my all-consuming workload, but I feel like I've failed - and I can't afford to walk out I'm in my mind 20s and I graduated with a 2:1 in English and creative writing three years ago. Though my dream career is to be a writer, my initial intention had been to go into teaching as a more sustainable path, but it didn't work out and I was then unemployed during ..
Ri Kang spent decades near Kim Jong-il and says he and wife Ko Yong-Suk fled to US in 1998'out of fear of what those in power can do' The uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has described how fear of the deadly power politics in Pyongyang drove him and his wife to defect to the US nearly 20 years ago. In a telephone interview with South Korea-s Yonhap news agency, Ri Kang said they had been..
Using magnetic shelving and false ceilings, two architects have made the most of their home Most of us have stylistic disagreements when we move in with our partners, so imagine what it must be like for two architects. Torquil and Jessie McIntosh met 14 years ago, when they were both working for the now defunct but influential practice Future Systems. But they have "not worked together since thi..
placebos can work - evidently some people are desperate to believe More and more, I realize out lives are based on faith. Not in a goddy sense, more a domestic, personal, dull-edged way. Relationships, for example: faith. The economy: faith. Health:faith. I come to this having spent some some time recently thinking about placebos, as I watch ministers consider whether homeopathy should be put on..
Stella has been chatting online to a wealthy man who hasn't mentioned sex once - he wants to meet but could they possibly be a match? For months now I've had an intermittent dating site conversation with a Spanish man called Tony. He is a wealthy business owner who can't believe how difficult it is to find a wife. He's awful - that's almost certainly the reason - but hilariously awful. I've been..
Her eyes were red and swollen form crying그녀의 두 눈은 울어서 빨갛게 부어 있었다. It's still the same familiar ache that swells from gullet to gut and fills the entire chest cavity, which only that old cliche time can heal.그건 마치 목에서 배쪽으로 전해져가 후에는 온 가슴을 채우는, 시간만이 치유해 줄수 있을 법한, 그런 익숙한 아픔이었다 The sound swelled from a murmur to a roar그 소리는 속삭임에서 차츰 고조되어 노호로 변했다. Their faces were swollen from blows그들의 얼굴은 구타로 부어올랐다. ..
When their cat Sox got ill had to be put down, Olivia Lichtenstein and her family were not prepared for how deeply they would mourn The house feels quiet and empty, pulsing with that deafening silence specific to death. We are a family in mourning. Last Friday morning, five of us got into the car and drove away in the sad knowledge that only four of us would be coming home. We were taking a much..
침체되다, 부진해지다 profits have stagnated수익이 부진해졌다. Societies that fail to attract foreign brains stagnate다른 나라의 인재를 끌어들이는데 실패한 사회는 정체된다. They continue to stagnate or decline economically그들은 경제적으로 계속 침체되거나 쇠락하고 있다. The US market continues to stagnate and move backwards미국 시장은 계속 침체 및 퇴보하고 있다. Recently the company has become sluggish and stagnate in its growth최근 그 회사는 성장이 부진하고 침체되어왔다. In addition, our ov..
Should I tell him how I feel? I can't talk to anyone I know. I am in my early 60s, long married. We are not the greatest love match but have come this far. We have areas of tension but always back off from saying what we really feel. Our sex life, never great, is now non-existent. We don't do much together but rub along and pursue our different interests. We have grown-up kids. The problem is, I..
pension somebody off(주로 수동태로) (연금을 주어) 명예퇴직시키다 He was pensioned off and his job given to a younger man그는 명예퇴직당하고 그의 자리는 더 젊은 남자에게 돌아갔다. He was pensioned off at the age limit그는 정년으로 연금퇴직이 됐다 David Beckham won his 100th cap in Paris and once again strengthened his claims - to be pensioned off데이비드 베컴이 파리에서 그의 100번째 잉글랜드 대표팀 경기에 출전하고 은퇴하겠다는 그의 주장을 굳혔다.
of course, now that I've joined, I wish I'd done it ages ago, but you definitely should: it's wonderful to keep up with what the grandchildren are up to and to see all their funny photos, though for some reason my stupid pooter won't let me see all of them Trying to look like fish seems to be the "in" thing, though why they do it in their underwear, heaven knows. And they write such funny things..
(많은 사람들이 이해하기 쉽게 만든다고 무엇을) 지나치게 단순화하다dumb something down: to make or become less intellectually demanding or sophisticated We never want to dumb down our games though우리는 절대 우리의 게임을 지나치게 단순화하고 싶지 않아. Dumb down education and see what happens 교육을 하향평준화시키면 어떤 일이 벌어지는지 봐라 Dumb down the sentence그 문장을 쉽게 고쳐 써라 To dumb something down is to disparage it무언가를 하향 평준화 시키는 것은 그것을 폄하하는 것이다. But it's not dumbed..
There's much to amuse at our fingertips - we've never had it so good. But is it good for the soul? I have written before about my concerns over how technology - via PCs, phones, tablets and so on - is driving the family household into separate, isolated cantons. This is the way the robots are taking over - rather than lurid inventions of 1950s sci-fi imagination, they are chainging us, in isolat..
자신도 모르게, 부지불식간에 She had broken the law unwittingly, but still she had broken it그녀는 자신도 모르는 법을 어겼었다. 하지만 그래도 법을 어기기는 한 것이다. He became an unwitting accomplice in the crime그는 자신도 모르게 그 범행의 공범자가 되었다. He unwittingly killed his goldfish by overfeeding it그는 멍청하게 금붕어에게 먹이를 너무 많이 줘서 죽이고 말았어 Meanwhile, unwitting shoppers may continue to buy the item그러는 동안, 의식하지 못하는 구매자들은 그 상품을 계속 살 수도 있을 것이다. That is why ..
If I'm congratulated for changing my password, does it mean anything when I congratulate you on your new baby, or your Nobel prize for chemistry? The other day, after resetting my online banking password, I received a message in all caps: "CONGRATULATIONS" I like to imagine the ripple of applause spreading from desk to desk as news of my triumph arrived at the bank's headquarters. Meanwhile, Fac..