모르는게 약이다 영어로 – Ignorance is Bliss
Bangkok: The Elephant Sanctuary – 방콕: 코끼리 보호 구역
Power Warm-up
Denise and Ricky visit an elephant sanctuary. The animals are treated well and are not made to work. Although it isn’t far from the city, it seems like a different world.
데니스와 리키는 코끼리 보호구역을 방문합니다. 동물들은 대우를 잘 받으며 일도 하지 않습니다. 도시에서 그리 멀지 않은 곳이지만 다른 세상처럼 느껴집니다.
Kristen: Everyone I’m Kristen.
Cameron: And I’m Cameron word.
Kristen: Hey, Cam.
Cameron: Hey, Kristen.
Kristen: We’re going to be talking about elephants today. Yes. And I wanted to know how you felt about elephants.
Cameron: I mean, they’re cool. Actually, no, I do love elephants. They’re so smart.
Kristen: I’m a little, these days, I’m a little obsessed. Before, I wasn’t. It was all about whales. You know my love for primates, like chimpanzees and gorillas.
Cameron: Uh huh.
Kristen: But elephants started popping up and then like I see how tender they are, how smart they are, how family-oriented they are. It’s just incredible. It really is. They’re incredible creatures.
Cameron: Have you ever met one? I know you went on safari, maybe at a zoo. Have you…
Kristen: Oh, yeah. Yeah? Didn’t I tell you where I was camping? I was at a, it was like in Tanzania. And i was in a tent. And an elephant came literally a few hundred meters away from our tent.
Cameron: What did they say to you?
Kristen: They said, hello. And they looked at us. He looked at us. It was a big elephant.
Cameron: He wasn’t like ‘get out of my house!’
Kristen: No, but we were just like really quiet. And then he walked away. Yeah. So I came very close to an elephant. I wasn’t in a car. I was just sitting there and just like it was pretty amazing.
Cameron: You know what I love the most about elephants? They’re really big. They have big ears. They have big noses. But they have tiny little tails. It just doesn’t look correct. It’s not balanced. They have this really long trunk.
Power Expressions
- Take someone’s advice: 충고를 듣고 따르다.
- Set A apart from B: A를 B와 다르게, 특별하게 만들다.
- Eye-opening: 눈이 번쩍 띄는, 깨달음을 얻은, shocking realization.
- Concierge: 호텔 안내인
- I’m big on = I’m a fan of : 을 좋아하게 되다.
- It’s good to know -:을 알게 되서 다행이다. 안심이다.
- Ignorance is bliss: 모르는 게 약이다.
Kristen: And little tail. They do. They do have a very small tail, right? Compared to their body. Well, we are going to the Elephant Sanctuary in Bangkok. And, you know, the feed on one of the sanctuaries pops up on my social media a lot. It’s like so endearing. So we’re going to talk about that. And let’s see what expressions we’re going to learn today. If you take someone’s advice, what are you doing?
Cameron: You are using the advice that someone has told you.
Kristen: Set something or someone apart from.
Cameron: This makes them different.
Kristen: And if something is an eye-opening experience?
Cameron: It’s shocking. It’s a shocking realization.
Kristen: Very surprising and shocking. Let’s go ahead and listen to our travel dialogue.
Power Dialog
Ricky: I’m glad we decided to take the concierge’s advice and visit the elephant sanctuary today.
Denise: It’s amazing that we’re only 30 minutes from Bangkok, yet it feels like a different world.
Ricky: According to the brochure, what sets this place apart from other sanctuaries is that they don’t let people ride the elephants.
Denise: They do seem happier than the ones in the city.
Ricky: And the stories the guide told us about the elephants they rescued were very eye-opening.
Denise: It’s good to know there are still people who care so much.
리키: 오늘 호텔 안내원의 조언대로 코끼리 보호구역을 방문하기로 결정하길 잘한 것 같아.
데니스: 방콕에서 불과 30분 거리에 있는데도 마치 다른 세상처럼 느껴져 놀라워.
리키: 안내 책자에 따르면, 사람들이 코끼리를 탈 수 없는 게 다른 보호구역이랑 다른 점이래.
데니스: 도시에 있는 코끼리들보다 더 행복해 보이긴 하네.
리키: 그리고 가이드가 구조된 코끼리들에 대해 들려준 이야기는 진짜 재밌었어.
데니스: 아직도 그렇게 관심을 가져주는 사람들이 있다니 다행이야.
Kristen: Okay, so Ricky says, I’m glad we decided to take the concierge’s advice and visit the elephant sanctuary today. Okay, concierge, of course, is the person who works at the hotel. And he’s the one who kind of like takes care of the customers or like the guests.
Cameron: Yeah, he’s kind of maybe the contact point for the guests. Hey, we need a restaurant recommendation.
Kristen: Could you get us a taxi? Yeah. Okay. So to take someone’s advice.
Cameron: Means to whatever they told you to do, actually do it. So it’s not just listen to the advice. It’s like, oh, that’s good. I will do that. So you cannot take someone’s advice. Someone tells you to do something, you say, nope, I’m going to ignore you. I will not do that.
Kristen: It’s interesting because when I was younger, I didn’t take people’s advice. Because I thought I was like, I know. I know what to do. But I feel as you get older, there is value in taking people’s advice.
Cameron: Oh, see, I think the opposite. The older I get, kind of useless, people’s advices. Like, a lot of times people give you advice, and I just think in my mind, you don’t know!.
Kristen: Well, I think, Cameron, I think it depends on the situation. Oh. Because as you get older and you have like these big sorts of situations or challenges that come. It’s like it’s very hard for you to do on your own. So in that specific situation, You know, taking advice from someone who has experience has actually really been helpful or even someone who hasn’t just to get a different point of view because you get so stuck in your own problem or your own challenge. But of course, you don’t want advice just from anyone.
Cameron: See, I think that’s the thing. If I don’t ask for the advice and someone gives me advice.
Kristen: Then no!
Cameron: I’m just going to ignore that. I agree but I will not be taking that advice.
Kristen: That’s right. Only if you want it. Okay. So they’re going to the sanctuary and you see a lot of this. I’m big on like animal, you know, sanctuaries. What is a sanctuary?
Cameron: So sanctuary originally means like a safe place. Just in general. But when we’re talking about animals, like an animal sanctuary is a safe place for those animals to live and not have to worry about being hunted. And usually they’re probably trying to, you know, increase the number of animals and they’ll like give them medical treatment if they need medical treatment.
Kristen: Right. And these usually are animals that cannot live in the wild alone because they’ve been kind of, you know, domesticated or have, you know, have been under human control.
Cameron: so yeah, there’s like elephant sanctuaries, bird sanctuaries.
Kristen: Chimpanzees.
Cameron: Panda Sanctuary. A place where those animals can live and be happy and not have to worry about the dangers.
Kristen: So I tell you, when I retire and I don’t have any work, I want to go work in a sanctuary.
Cameron: In a sanctuary.
Kristen: I’m serious. I dream about it all the time. Like, should I go to an elephant’s nest? Or maybe should I go to a chimpanzee’s sanctuary? Okay. I’m crazy.
Cameron: No! I think that’s very cool.
Kristen: It really is, like when I’m much older, right? Okay. What does Denise say?
Cameron: It’s amazing that we’re only 30 minutes from Bangkok, yet it feels like a different world.
Kristen: Right. We know that in Thailand they’ve got lots of elephants, right? Ricky says, according to the brochure, what sets this place apart from other sanctuaries is they don’t let people ride the elephants. This is actually, you know, riding elephants is not a very good thing for the elephants. It’s a very big tourist thing. And I have to admit, I did that many, many like decades ago, but I would not do it again. Here, set this place apart from.
Cameron: To set this place apart from means to, what makes this place special, what makes it different. So other sanctuaries, people can ride the elephants. But in this one, you can’t.
Kristen: Can’t. Yeah.
Cameron: But and that’s, you know, it’s not the actual person getting on the elephant. Is the problem? Because humans are small compared to elephants.
Kristen: Yeah, it’s okay, it’s okay.
Cameron: Our weight is not going to hurt the elephant. It has to deal with them being in chains and them hitting them to make them walk. That is where the problem can be.
Kristen: That’s it. That’s it. Okay. Denise says they do seem happier than the ones in the city. And Ricky?
Cameron: And the stories the guide told us about the elephants they rescued were very eye-opening.
Kristen: Okay, so these stories about the rescues were eye-opening. So what is eye-opening?
Cameron: Surprising. So you are learning something new that you did not know. Oh my goodness. That’s how it is? Really?
Kristen: Really? Yeah. So it’s kind of like it’s not just surprising and shocking, but when it’s eye-opening, when something is eye-opening, it’s very informative.
Cameron: Yeah, you’re learning the truth.
Kristen: You’re learning the truth. You’re kind of like realizing what’s really going on.
Cameron: Yeah, something was hidden, but now it was exposed.
Kristen: That’s it. That is the idea behind this experiment.
Denise: Mm-hmm.
Kristen: Something is eye-opening. Okay, Denise says, It’s good to know there are still people who care so much. Okay, it’s good to know is our power pattern.
Cameron: So it’s good to know. We’re not talking about like, you know, sometimes you’ll see in a textbook, good to know. And it’s like extra information. Bonus material. Here, it’s good to know means I am happy to know. Or this makes me feel safe. This makes me feel relieved to know this fact. So they’re being good people. They’re people that still care about these elephants. Sure. Aww.
Kristen: Thank you.
Cameron: I feel better because I know that there are decent people.
Kristen: That’s right. Yeah, it’s good to know. All right, we’ll give you more examples in just a bit. Let’s listen to that dialogue one more time.
Power Dialog
Ricky: I’m glad we decided to take the concierge’s advice and visit the elephant sanctuary today.
Denise: It’s amazing that we’re only 30 minutes from Bangkok, yet it feels like a different world.
Ricky: According to the brochure, what sets this place apart from other sanctuaries is that they don’t let people ride the elephants.
Denise: They do seem happier than the ones in the city.
Ricky: And the stories the guide told us about the elephants they rescued were very eye-opening.
Denise: It’s good to know there are still people who care so much.
리키: 오늘 호텔 안내원의 조언대로 코끼리 보호구역을 방문하기로 결정하길 잘한 것 같아.
데니스: 방콕에서 불과 30분 거리에 있는데도 마치 다른 세상처럼 느껴져 놀라워.
리키: 안내 책자에 따르면, 사람들이 코끼리를 탈 수 없는 게 다른 보호구역이랑 다른 점이래.
데니스: 도시에 있는 코끼리들보다 더 행복해 보이긴 하네.
리키: 그리고 가이드가 구조된 코끼리들에 대해 들려준 이야기는 진짜 재밌었어.
데니스: 아직도 그렇게 관심을 가져주는 사람들이 있다니 다행이야.
Power Note
1. Take one’s advice: 조언대로 하다.
Utilize one’s suggestion or opinion
Kristen: It’s time for Power Note. We’re on pages 112 and 113. Take someone’s advice. Take their advice means to listen to their opinion, to listen to their suggestion.
Cameron: And do it.
Kristen: And do it.
Cameron: So it’s not just that you’re listening, but you’re actually applying the advice that was given.
A: I decided to take Uncle Cliff’s advice about what school to go to.
B: Does that mean you’re going to choose a university close to home?
Kristen: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Take my advice and travel while you’re young. This is so true. It really is true, Cameron. And I’ve been saying that, I’ve been saying this, not that I’m like really old. But there are certain type of trips that you can take when you’re really, when you’re younger.
And because when you turn a certain age, like after 60 or even in your, after 60, you know, those rough places, even though, you know, the wild landscape, it may be very difficult to get around. So there’s so much more freedom and flexibility when you travel when you’re young.
Cameron: Yeah, I agree to that in a lot of ways. But I also feel there are some trips that have to be taken when you’re older.
Kristen: Oh, sure.
Cameron: Like I feel like there are some there’s some travel that I did when I was young. That was fun. But it’s like, man, I wish I could do it now because now I know how special that place is.
Kristen: Of course, of course. So I was saying that in terms of physical–
Cameron: Having the energy to do it.
Kristen: But I agree because I feel like you can have some very meaningful trips when you’re older.
Cameron: Oh yeah.
Kristen: Yeah. Okay. So take my advice. So here, you’re just, in this way, you’re just giving your advice. Like, take my advice. Okay, do this.
Cameron: Yes. And sometimes, you know, you can say, Take my advice. Listen to what I say. But, you know, you don’t have to take everyone’s advice.
Kristen: No.
Cameron: Of people have bad advice.
Kristen: True. But Kristen and Cameron would like to say, take our advice, you know, listen to Power English every day. Don’t miss a day. Be consistent.
Cameron: I think it’s hard to take that advice. Like to just trust it.
Kristen: Cause that- Oh, you can trust us.
Cameron: That would benefit us a lot.
2. Set A apart from B: A를 B와 다르게 만들다. 특별하게 만들다.
Kristen: You can trust us. You can trust us. Okay. All right. Set something somewhat apart from.
Cameron: Make something or someone different. Make them special.
1)
A: What makes it different? Why do you like coming to this restaurant so much?
B: What sets it apart from other Italian restaurants is their amazing wine selection.
Kristen: So this Italian restaurant has an amazing wine selection. That is what makes it different from the other restaurants.
2) What sets us apart from most animals is self-awareness.
Cameron: Yeah, it’s so true. You know, we both have dogs. Yeah. Dogs don’t really have self-awareness. Like they have their thing that they’re doing. They’re focused on their thing. But you know how we can like take ourselves, our perspective out of our body. Like we can look at ourselves from like a third-person point of view. But dogs don’t really do that. That seems like it’d probably be a happier existence.
Kristen: Maybe it’s better for us not to be self-aware sometimes. Actually, people, they say ignorance is bliss. So being ignorant and not being self-aware can actually lead to happiness in some ways. Being more aware of yourself can cause a little bit of misery.
Cameron: It can. It’s so true.
Kristen: It can. Okay, so set something apart quickly. There are many English programs out there, right? What sets Power English apart from other programs?
Cameron: Because we’re silly. We’re so silly. Especially, you know, compared to the EBS shows. There are a lot of good EBS shows. But I think we have the most fun. I think that’s what sets us apart.
Kristen: I have to agree. I have to agree. So when we’re having fun, then the listeners have fun.
Cameron: I hope so.
3. Eye-opening: 놀라운, 새로운 것을 알게 되어 눈이 번쩍 뜨이는
Kristen: I hope so. I think generally they do. Okay. All right. So let’s talk about this expression, eye-opening. It means that you have a shocking realization. Yeah. And it could be good or bad, but it’s more like, oh, I didn’t know that, and now I do.
1)
A: What did you think about the war documentary you watched last night?
B: It was amazing, especially the eye-opening stories told by the soldiers.
Kristen: It’s like, I never knew that.
Cameron: Yeah. I never thought about that.
Kristen: Oh my gosh.
2) Finding out that Jim was not my real father was an eye-opening discovery.
Cameron: Can you imagine that? The person you thought was your father is not your father.
Kristen: You know, there’s an actress and she wrote a book about it. Kerry Washington, the African-American actress. She found out just a few years ago that her father was a sperm donor, that her father was not her real father.
Cameron: Was not her real father. Yeah.
Kristen: Wow. And she wrote a book about it. Yeah. Isn’t that crazy?
Cameron: That would be so weird to find out.
Kristen: Yeah. And so she said, like, even when she was younger, it was always kind of strange. There were just some strange things. But anyway, I’m sure that was very eye-opening.
It’s good to know
Okay. It’s good to know, meaning I’m happy. It’s comforting.
Cameron: I’m comforting. I’m relieved. Relieved. Yeah.
1) It’s good to know there is someone I can trust. Yeah, yeah.
2) It’s good to know the train station is next to our hotel.
So I was a little worried. I was a little nervous about something. But now that I learned this thing, now that I know something, I’m relieved. I don’t have to worry anymore.
Kristen: Right. It’s good to know that Cameron really likes Korea and wants to live here for a long time so we can continue doing Power English.
Cameron: I don’t leave you.
Kristen: Yeah. Don’t leave!
Cameron: It’s good to know you have a child here and cannot leave.
Kristen: Yes. That’s right. We are here forever. We are. Okay. All right.
4. Sanctuary: 보호 구역
A sanctuary is a safe place where no harm will be done to a person or animal. Animal sanctuaries are where abused, unwanted, or old animals are taken to live peaceful lives.
보호소는 사람이나 동물에게 해를 끼치지 않는 안전한 장소입니다. 동물 보호소는 학대받거나 버림받은 동물 또는 노령의 동물이 평화로운 삶을 살 수 있도록 보호하는 곳입니다.
방콕 수상시장 갑니다: Bangkok: Let’s Head To The Floating Market (0514) (enko.co.kr)