While You Were Sleeping-01
While You Were Sleeping-01
While You Were Sleeping-01
And I
know that someday I will find a way to
introduce myself. And and then that's gonna
be perfect. Just like my prince.
Lucy: Forty-five dollars for a Christmas
tree and they don't deliver? You order ten
dollars worth of chow mein from Mr.
Wong's they bring it to your door. Ooh, I
should've gotten the blue spruce. They're
lighter. Aaah! Ooh.
Joe: Lucy!
Lucy: Eee.
Joe: Nature of claim? Christmas tree
Lucy: Okay, there are two things I through window. Ho-how am I gonna put
remember about my childhood. I just don't that on my insurance? They're still pissed
remember it being this orange. First, I about the fire we had when Joe Junior
remember being with my dad. He would get barbecued in the stairwell.
these far-off looks in his eye, and he would Lucy: I missed that one.
say, "Life doesn't always turn out the way Joe: Oh, great sausage.
you plan." I just wish I'd realized at the time Lucy: Look, I'll pay for this.
he was talking about my life. But that never Joe: That's okay, Lucy. My brother Julie's in
stopped us from taking our adventures the glass business.
together. He would pack up our sometimes- Lucy: Oh, I almost forgot. Merry
working car and he would tell me amazing Christmas.
stories about strange and exotic lands as we Joe: Ah, Lucy. You didn't have to do that.
headed off to exciting destinations like.. Lucy: Well, I wanted to.
Milwaukee. It's amazing how exotic Joe: I haven't even gotten to my shopping
Wisconsin isn't. But my favorite memories yet.
were the stories that he would tell me about Joe Jr.: Hey Pop? Can I give that bottle of
my mom. He would take me to the church Blue Nun you got from Cousin Ornella to
where they got married, and I'd beg him to my probation officer? Do you see we got
tell me more about the ceremony and about some company?
my crazy Uncle Irwin who fell asleep in the Joe: Say hello. Hello, Luce. Nice sweater.
macaroni and cheese. Lucy: Thank you.
And I asked my dad, when he knew that he Joe: It's over there. Lucy, you're a nice girl.
truly loved my mom. And he said to me, Joe Junior's still single.
"Lucy, your mother gave me a special gift. Lucy: Yeah, it's a shocker.
She gave me the world." Actually it was a
globe with a light in it. But for the romantic 1.1 Expression & NEW WORD
that he was, it might as well have been the exotic /ɪg|zɑ:tɪk/: Something that is exotic is unusal
world. Well, the first time I saw him, he and interesting, usually because it comes from or is
related to a distant country.
didn't exactly give me the world. It was a Ex) In the background, there is an exotic palm tree.
dollar-fifty for a train token. Uh, but I spruce /spru:s/: Someone who is spruce is very neat
looked forward to it every single day. He and smart in appearance.
started coming to my booth between eight- Ex) I met him all spruced up.
oh-one and eight fifteen every morning insurance/ɪn|ʃʊrəns/: insurance is an arrangement in
which you pay money to company, and they pay
Monday through Friday, and he was just money to you if something unpleasant happens to
perfect My prince Charming. Well, we've you, for example if your poperty is stolen or
never actually spoken. But I know someday damaged, or if you get a serious illness.
ex) The insurance company compensated the
woman for her injuries
stairwell /|sterwel/: The stairwell is the part of
building that contains the staircase.
ex) It is smart to know the best way to get to a safe
stairwell or emergency exit.
Probation /proʊ|beɪʃn/ : Probation is a period of time
during which a person who has committed a crime
has to obey the law and be supervised by a probation
officer, rather than being sent to prison.
Ex) He worked full time as a probation officer.
Far off: 아득하게 멀리
turn out : ~으로 판명되다.
ex) How did the test turn out? 시험은 어떻게
되었나요?
head off : 진로를 바꾸다. (말머리를 돌려 목적지를
바꾸던 데서 유래)
might as well : ‘차라리 ~하는게 낫다, ~하는 편이
좋다.’
ex) I might as well go home’
prince Charming : 동화 신데렐라에서 신데렐라와
결혼하는 왕자의 이름이었는데 현재는
모든 여성이 맘에 그리는 이상적인 신랑감을
의미합니다.
shocker: shock에 명사형 ‘er’을 붙인 형태로 놀라운
일,
ex) It was a shocker for us to hear that she was
pregnant.