5/14(Tue) 206-210p Flashcards
This “Zoo-Wee Mama” thing has really got me worked up.
*worked up : (a) (몹시) 흥분한[화가 난] There’s no point in getting worked up about it. 그걸 두고 흥분해 봐야 소용없는 짓이야.
The kids at my school are always itching to see a fight. Me and Rowley tried to walk away, but those guys weren’t going to let us go until they saw us throw some punches.
*be itching to do somthing : ~를 하고 싶어 몸이 근질거리다, 굉장히 ~하고 싶어하다
*walk away : (힘든 상황·관계를 외면하고) 떠나 버리다
*throw a punch : 주먹을 휘두르다[날리다]
And you could tell Rowley didn’t know what he was doing either, because he just started prancing around like a leprechaun.
*prance : 활보하다, 껑충거리며 다니다
*leprechaun : 레프러콘(아일랜드 민화에 나오는 남자 모습의 작은 요정)
I was pretty sure I could take Rowley in a fight, but the thing that made me nervous was the fact that Rowley takes karate. I don’t know what kind of hocus-pocus they teach in Rowley’s karate classes, but the last thing I needed was for him to lay me out right there on the blacktop.
*take someone in a fight : 누군가와의 싸움에서 이기다
*hocus-pocus : [라임] 마법주문, 말장난, 속임수
*lay out : 펼치다, 투자하다, 질책하다, **때려 눕히다, 설계[계획]하다.
Before me or Rowley made a move, there was a screeching sound in the school parking lot. A bunch of teenagers had stopped their pickup truck, and they started piling out.
*screech : 꽥 하는 소리를 내다, 끼익; 빽, 쌩 하는 소리를 내다
*piling out : 우르르 몰려 나오다, 여러 사람이 동시에 내리는 모습
And then I realized that these teenagers looked awfully familiar.
*look familiar : 낯이 익다, (경험해) 본 것 같다
*awful : 끔찍한, 지독한, 무시무시한
**(특히 양적으로 많음을 강조하는 의미로) 엄청 It’s going to cost an awful lot of money. 그건 돈이 엄청 들 거야
*awfully : 정말, 몹시 (=terribly)
That’s when it hit me. These were the same guys who chased me and Rowley around on Halloween night, and they had finally caught up with us.
*It hit me : 갑자기 이런 생각이 확 들었어. / 갑자기 깨달았다
*catch up with somebody : (먼저 간 사람을) 따라잡다[따라가다] Go on ahead. I’ll catch up with you. 먼저 가. 곧 따라갈게, (정도나 수준이 앞선 것을) 따라잡다
But before we could make a run for it, we had our arms pinned behind our backs.
*make a run for it :필사적으로[급히] 도망치다
*pin : 핀, 꽂다, 꼼짝 못하게 하다
Those guys wanted to teach us a lesson for taunting them on Halloween night, and they started arguing over what they should do with us.
*taunt : 놀리다, 놀림
*argue over : ~을 두고 논쟁하다
The big teenager must have caught my eye, because the next thing I knew, he was looking at the Cheese, too. And I guess that gave him the idea he was looking for.
*catch one’s eye : 눈길을 끌다[모으다]
*the next thing I knew : 깨닫고 보니, 어느 틈엔가, 나도 모르는 새에, 정신을 차리고 보니
*he was looking for 그가 찾고 있던
Now, I don’t want to say exactly what happened next. Because if Rowley ever tries to run for President and someone finds out what these guys made him do, he won’t have a chance.
*run for : ~에 입후보하다 At age 45, he decided to run for a political office. 45살의 나이에 그는 정치공직을 차지하기 위하여 출마하기로 결정하였다.
