오늘은 미국의 공휴일인 땡스기빙데이 입니다. 보통 사람들은 공휴일인 목요일을 전후로 휴가를 내어 5일의 긴 휴가를 즐깁니다. 요즘 워낙 경기도 안좋고 분위기 꾸질하지만 놀때는 또 열심히 논다는 것이 원칙인 만큼, 많은 이들이 집에서 머물고 있습니다. 센스있는 제니퍼 선생님이 또 친절하게 땡스기빙을 이용한 비디오를 하나 올렸네요....
This week Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving. It’s always celebrated on fourth Thursday of each November. For some, it’s religious holiday, for most, it’s family holiday. For everyone, it’s a day of giving thanks. We’d like to celebrate by eating roasted turkey. So let me share with you some related expressions.
Now the turkeys you saw on that clip are wild turkeys. They came into my back yard the other day. I’m sure that wild turkeys don’t look very appetizing, but the turkeys that you can find in supermarkets do. As I said, on Thanksgiving day, and every household you sure to find roasted turkey on the table. In fact, you can find all kinds food on the table on Thanksgiving day. We have a roasted turkey on cranberry sauce or gravy, corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, squash, corn bread, pumpkin pie, apple pie and probably few other foods I’m forgetting right now.
You can imagine that if you eat even a little bit of all those foods, it’s enough to make your stomach feel very full. So the first expression I want to share with you is to be stuffed. It means that you eat so much you cannot possible eat any more (배꼽 뒤집어진 상태!). It’s informal expression. So friends and family members offer you to eat and you’re full, you can say to them: “Thanks, but I’m stuffed!”
The next expression to share with you is ‘go cold turkey’. It means stop a bad habit suddenly and completely. We mostly use this expression connected to drugs. So if someone suddenly stops taking drug, they suddenly stop smoking or drinking, we say they go cold turkey. (i.e. How did you quit smoking? Cold turkey!!)
The last expression, I want you to know is ‘talk turkey’. This means to talk simply and directly. Now, people like politicians or business men sometimes have reasons to talk carefully and secretively and not talk about the main issue right away. So somebody suggests “let’s talk turkey!” It means that they want to address the most important things. They want to get to the point. OK. Let’s review those expressions.
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땡스기빙 다음날을 블랙프라이데이 (Black Friday) 라고해서 파격적인 가격으로 평소에는 비싸서 구입하지 못한 물품들을 쇼핑할수 있는 기회입니다. 유명 전자제품 매장에서는 거의 60-80% 디스카운트된 가격으로 한정된 물건들을 팔기 때문에 경쟁이 치열해서 매장 열기 몇시간 전부터 줄을 선다고 합니다. 아래 비디오에서 아주 적나라 하게 보여 줍니다....
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