Wise saying
★ 무슨 일을 하든, 언제나 100% 쏟아부어라. 헌혈을 하는(donate blood) 것만 아니라면.
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
☞ 피를 100% 헌혈하면 목숨을 위태롭게 하니까(put your life at risk) 안 되지만, 다른 일에는 최대한 노력을 쏟아야(put in as much effort as possible in other things) 한다는 말입니다.
☞ It means that while giving 100% of your blood through donation would put your life at risk and therefore shouldn’t be done, you should still put in as much effort as possible in other things.
Riddle
★ 다섯 글자(five letters)로 된 단어인데, 두 글자를 없애도(remove) 하나만 남는 것은?
What word of five letters has one left when two are removed?
Answer＝stone(돌)
☞ s와 t 두 글자를 없애면 one만 남기 때문입니다.
☞ Because if you remove the letters ‘s’ and ‘t’, only ‘one’ is left.
Joke
★ 머리를 깎으려고(get haircuts) 기다리는 사람들의 줄을 뭐라고 부를까? barberque라고 한다네.
What do you call a line of people waiting to get haircuts? A barberque!
☞ 이발사를 barber, 길게 늘어선 줄을 queue라고 하는데, 두 단어를 합치면 고기를 굽는 바비큐(barbeque)와 발음이 비슷한 것에 빗댄 농담입니다.
☞ A ‘barber’ is someone who cuts hair, and a ‘queue’ is a long line of people—when you combine the two, ‘barberqueue’ sounds like ‘barbecue’, the word for grilling meat. That’s the pun!
Proverb
Beggars can’t be choosers
☞ ‘거지가 찬밥 더운밥 가리랴’에 해당하는 속담으로, 거지에겐 선택권이 주어지지 않는다는 말입니다.
☞ This proverb corresponds to the Korean saying “거지가 찬밥 더운밥 가리랴,” meaning that beggars are not given the privilege of choice.
