정원 가꾸기 – Gardening
Expressions
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많은 실패를 거듭하다: Experience a lot of failures
1) I wasn’t very good at it for the first few years and I experienced a lot of failures.
2) We experienced a lot of failures during the first year.
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해를 거듭하며: With each passing year
1) With each passing year I learned more and gained more experience in gardening Okay
2) With each passing year we grew further apart. (점점 소원해지다. 멀어지다)
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땀과 정성: Sweat and dedication
1) Each flowering plant blossoms in its own time, rewarding its gardener’s sweat and dedication.
2) The process requires a lot of sweat and dedication
Dialog Practice
A: You’ve really cultivated a beautiful garden here.
B: Thank you, the flowers are coming along nicely, aren’t they?
A: Yes they’re vibrant and really pleasant to look at.
B: What types of flowers do you like?
Tulips are my top pick.
A: Oh I’m planning to plant tulips soon.
A: 정원 정말 예쁘게 가꾸셨네요.
B: 고마워요, 꽃이 잘 피고 있어요, 그쵸?
A: 네, 화사하고 보기 좋네요.
B: 혹시 어떤 꽃을 좋아하나요?
A: 저는 튤립을 제일 좋아해요.
B: 아 조만간 튤립도 좀 심을 예정이에요.
- 정원을 가꾸다: Cultivate (tend) a garden
- 화사한, 싱싱한: Vibrant
- 가장 좋아한다.: Be my top pick.
Today’s Sentences: Gardening
I had a long held dream of living in a single family home and tending my own garden.
I finally realized that dream in 2017 I wasn’t very good at it for the first few years and I experienced a lot of failures.
I had to consider factors like sunlight soil conditions and the characteristics of plants when planting flowers and trees.
But rather than trying to understand them I only planted them to be easy on the eyes for humans and blindly hoped they would grow well.
Yet with each passing year I learned more and gained more experience in gardening.
Flowers and trees became more and more beautiful in their natural form and brought me great joy.
Each flowering plant blossoms in its own time rewarding this gardener’s sweat and dedication.
Seeing them grow larger and more bountiful each year brings me nothing but happiness.
Key Expressions
- 나는 주택에 살면서 나만의 정원을 가꾸고 싶은 오랜 꿈이 있었습니다.
I had a long-held dream of living in a single-family home and tending my own garden.
- 오랜 꿈, 오랜 기간 간직해온 꿈:
A long-held dream (goal) of —
- 단독 주택: Single family home
(cf. 1인가구: single-person household)
- 나만의 정원을 가꾸다. 돌보다:
Tend (to) my garden. (Cultivate flowers)
- 2017년에 드디어 그 꿈을 이루게 되었습니다.
I finally realized that dream (came true) in 2017.
- 처음 몇 년 동안은 정원을 가꾸는 일이 좀 서툴러서 실패를 많이 했습니다.
I wasn’t very good at it for the first few years and I experienced a lot of failures.
- 일조량이라든가 토양의 상태라든가 식물의 특징 등을 고려해서 꽃과 나무를 심어야 했습니다.
I had to consider factors like sunlight, soil conditions, and the characteristics of plants when planting flowers and trees.
- 일조량: Sunlight
- 토양 상태: Soil conditions
- 그런데 식물을 이해하려고 하기보다는 사람이 보기 좋게만 이렇게 심어놓고 잘 자라기만을 막연하게 바랐습니다.
But rather than trying to understand them, I only planted them to be easy on the eyes for humans and blindly hoped they would grow well.
- –하기보다는: Rather than —
- 보기 좋은, 눈에 편한: Easy on the eyes / Pleasant to look at
푸른색은 눈에 더 편한 색상이다.
I think blue’s easier on the eyes.
It’s a much more comfortable color.
- 무작정 기대하다. 막연히 바라다:
Blindly hoped that –
- 요행, 노력은 없이 가만히 있으면서 갖는 막연한 희망: Blind hope.
- 이뤄질 가능성이 없는 희망 사항: wishful thinking
- 그러나 해가 이제 거듭되면서 정원 가꾸기 공부와 경험이 쌓여갔습니다.
Yet with each passing year, I learned more and gained more experience in gardening.
- 해가 거듭될수록: With each passing year
- 꽃과 나무들이 갈수록 본연의 아름다운 모습으로 성장하여 나에게 큰 기쁨을 주었습니다.
Flowers and trees became more and more beautiful in their natural form and brought me great joy.
- 본연의 모습으로: in their natural form.
- 꽃나무들은 저마다의 시간이 되면 만발을 하여 이 정원 지기의 땀과 정성에 보답합니다.
Each flowering plant blossoms in its own time, rewarding its gardener’s sweat and dedication.
- 꽃나무: Flowering plant
- 만발하다: Blossom, bloom
- –에 보답하면서: Rewarding
- 정원지기의 땀과 정성: Gardner’s sweat and dedication
- 또한 해마다 더 크고 풍성하게 성장하는 모습을 보면 나는 행복하기만 합니다. .
Seeing them grow larger and more bountiful each year brings me nothing but happiness.
- 풍성한: bountiful
- –말고는 아무것도 아닌: Nothing but = only
Lucia’s Pick
단독 주택 영어로: Single family home
요행 영어로: Blind hope