outliers_1 Flashcards
I’ve substituted the players’ birthdays for their names
나는 선수들의 생일을 그들의 이름으로 대체했습니다.
he stops and circles, eluding the Vancouver defense-man February 15
eluding - evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
it’s simply that in Canada the eligibility cutoff for age-class hockey is January 1
eligibility - the state of having the right to do or obtain something through satisfaction of the appropriate conditions.
적임 적절
In the united states, football and basketball don’t select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically
stream -
a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas.
it seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery
assimilate- take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.
Ten Thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
greatness -the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent.
it was a do-it-yourself contraption that you could assemble at home.
contraption - a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
*신안
new idea, contraption
To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation
*fledgling- 깃털이 갓난 새 새끼
fledgeling, fledgling
he grew up in Mountain View, California, just south of San Francisco, which is the absolute epicenter of Silicon Valley
*epicenter -중심점
node, epicenter, pivot, epicentrum, epicentre
as a teenager he prowled the flea markets of Mountain View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts.
*prowl -기웃거리다
prowl
Jobs not only received the parts he asked for, he managed to wrangle a summer job
설복하다
persuade, wrangle, reason, prevail
Tonight the mob takes on their fiercest competition yet
폭도
mob, insurgent, rioter, insurrectionist
all because of a brain that appears to defy description
*defy- 무시하다
disregard, ignore, defy, face it out, fracture, set aside
he could skim through the textbook and ace the test
*skim through -대충 읽다
skim, dip
he did not circle about topics, searching for the right phrase, or double back to restate a previous sentence.
*restate- 다시 말하다
restate, rehash