13강 1/2
Now Gus showed up a couple of nights a week, usually around eight./ With four kids and eleven grandchildren in the house, he needed to get out now and then, and Noah couldn’t blame him.
Usually Gus would bring his harmonica and, after talking for a little while, they’d play a few songs together.
① Now Gus showed up a couple of nights a week, usually around eight.
이제 거스는 일주일에 두어 번쯤, 보통 8시쯤에 찾아왔다.
show up : 나타나다, 오다
He didn’t show up for the meeting. (그는 회의에 나타나지 않았다.)
a couple of : 두어 개의, 몇몇의
I’ll call you in a couple of days. (이틀 뒤쯤에 전화할게요.)
② With four kids and eleven grandchildren in the house, he needed to get out now and then, and Noah couldn’t blame him.
집에는 아이 넷과 손주 열한 명이 있어서, 그는 가끔씩 밖으로 나가야 했고, 노아는 그를 탓할 수 없었다.
get out : (밖으로) 나가다, 외출하다
Let’s get out and take a walk. (나가서 산책하자.)
now and then : 가끔씩, 때때로
She visits us now and then. (그녀는 가끔 우리를 방문한다.)
blame : 비난하다, 탓하다
Don’t blame me for your mistake. (네 실수를 나 탓하지 마라.)
③ Usually Gus would bring his harmonica and, after talking for a little while, they’d play a few songs together.
보통 거스는 하모니카를 가져와서 잠깐 이야기를 나눈 뒤, 둘이 함께 몇 곡을 연주하곤 했다.
bring : 가져오다
Can you bring your book tomorrow? (내일 책 가져올 수 있니?)
for a little while : 잠시 동안
Stay here for a little while. (잠깐만 여기 있어.)
play a few songs : 몇 곡을 연주하다
They played a few songs before dinner. (그들은 저녁 전에 몇 곡을 연주했다.)
13강 2/2
He’d come to regard Gus as family./ There really wasn’t anyone else, at least not since his father died last year./ He was an only child and his mother had died of influenza when he was two./ And though he had wanted to at one time, he had never married.
① He’d come to regard Gus as family.
그는 거스를 가족처럼 여기게 되었다.
regard ~ as ... : ~을 ...로 여기다
She regards him as her best friend. (그녀는 그를 가장 친한 친구로 여긴다.)
come to : 점차 ~하게 되다
He came to like the small town. (그는 점차 그 작은 마을을 좋아하게 되었다.)
② There really wasn’t anyone else, at least not since his father died last year.
정말 다른 사람은 없었다. 적어도 아버지가 작년에 돌아가신 이후로는 말이다.
anyone else : 다른 사람
Is there anyone else who can help? (도와줄 다른 사람이 있나요?)
at least : 적어도, 최소한
You should sleep at least seven hours. (적어도 7시간은 자야 해.)
die : 죽다, 사망하다
Her grandfather died last winter. (그녀의 할아버지는 지난겨울에 돌아가셨다.)
③ He was an only child and his mother had died of influenza when he was two.
그는 외동아들이었고, 어머니는 그가 두 살 때 독감으로 돌아가셨다.
only child : 외동, 외아들·외동딸
I’m an only child, so I don’t have siblings. (나는 외동이라 형제자매가 없어.)
sibling: 형제자매
die of : ~로 죽다
He died of cancer. (그는 암으로 사망했다.)
influenza : 인플루엔자, 독감
Many people caught influenza that winter. (그해 겨울에 많은 사람들이 독감에 걸렸다.)
④ And though he had wanted to at one time, he had never married.
한때는 결혼하고 싶어 한 적도 있었지만, 그는 결국 결혼하지 않았다.
though : 비록 ~이지만
Though it was raining, they went out. (비가 오고 있었지만 그들은 나갔다.)
at one time : 한때, 예전에
At one time, I lived in New York. (한때 나는 뉴욕에 살았다.)
marry : 결혼하다
She married her college sweetheart. (그녀는 대학 시절 연인과 결혼했다.)
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