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1) -A lovely lips and white teeth.

   -A lovely face.

  -단순호치

2) They are six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

  -대동소이(하다)

3) -Special writing [mention].

    -Featuring.

(*a deed worthy of special mention: 대서특필 할만한 행위)

  -대서특필

4) -Living in solitude.

   -A woman's leading solitary life in her husband's absence.

  -독수공방

5) -A vagabond.

   -A wanderer.

   -A man with no fixed abode.

  -동가식 서가숙

6) Suffering and rejoicing together.

(*share the pleasures and pains of life with:동고동락하다)

  -동고동락

7) -Great ability.

   -The pillars [of a state]

  -동량지재

8) -An incoherent answer.

   -An irrelevant reply.

  -동문서답

9) To study under the same teacher [with].

  -동문수학(하다)

10) Wedding festivities.

(*the nuptial chamber:화촉동방)

  -동방화촉

11) -Rushing east and west.

    -Being terribly busy.

  -동분서주

12) To share the fate with others.

(*We are all in the same boat:우리는 모두~의 운명이다)

  -공생공사(하다)

13) The same surname and the same family origin.

  -동성동본

14) -Utter indifference.

     -Praying to deaf ears.

  -마이동풍

15) -A solitary life.

     -Confining oneself at home.

    -Staying indoors.

   -두문불출

16) Keeping the head cool and the feet warm [for health]

   -두한족열

17) -The [only] door to eminence.

     -An advance to fame.

     -A gateway to success.

     -An opening to honors.

  -등용문

18) One has to go abroad to get the news of home.

  -등하불명

19) -Being like preaching to the wind.

     -Turning a deaf ear to what one says.

    -마이동풍

20) -Nothing better and nothing worse.

     -Neck and neck.

    (A well matched contest: 막상막하의 열전)

    -There is little difference [little to choose] between the two:그둘은 막상막하이다)

    -The two are on a par with each other in skill:두사람의기술은 막상막하이다


21) Being imperishable, lasting forever.

   -만고불멸

22) Being unchangeable, staying the same forever.

   -만고불변


Posted by 윤강로 (Rocky YOON)