(윤강로 영어)영어를 우리말 처럼~(스포츠외교소통: 제88편)

<우리 말 속담/ 사자성어를 영어로~>

1)일희일비: alternate hope and fear
 

2) Being prosperous in everything.

  -만사형통

3) Repenting of one's missing of a chance.

  -만사지탄

4) Unanimity.

  -만장일치

5) Steep mountains and dark valleys.

  -만학천봉

6) Luxuriant growth of all things in spring.

  -만화방창

7) Lamenting one's inability [to cope with a situation].

  -망양지탄

8) "Locking the barn door after the horse is stolen".

  -망양보뢰/소 잃고 와양간 고치기 

9) Abstraction, stupefaction, entrancement.

  -망연자실

10) A moment of relief from busy hours.

  -망중한

11) Passive resistance.

  -면종복배

12) A disaster that wipes out a whole family.

  -멸문지화

13) -Deep insight.

     -Far-sighted capacity.

  -명견만리

14) Mighty clans.

  -명문거족

15) Splendid mountains and rivers.

  -명산대천

16) Being as clear as the light.

  -명약관화

17) -Being unbearable to witness [see].

     -Being too pitiful to look at.

   -목불인견

18) An only daughter

(*marry an heiress: 무남독녀에게 장가들다)

  -무남독녀

19) Freedom from all [worldly] thoughts.

(*be free from distraction: 무념무상하다)

  -무념무상

20) -An idle life.

    -Eating the bread of idleness.

  -무위도식

21) -No-man's land.

     -An uninhabited region.

  -무인지경

22) Sworn friendship.

  -문경지교

23) Jack of all trades, master of none.

  -박이부정/팔방미인

24) Eradication of sources of evil.

  -발본색원

25) Blind following.

  -부화뇌동

26) Eternal youth and immorality.

  -불노불사

27) -Eternal youth.

     -Perennial [ageless] youth.

  -불로장생

28) Roads running [stretching] in all directions.

  -사통팔달

29) -Right will prevail in the end.

     -Wrong cannot last long.

     -Truth wins out in the long run.

  -사필귀정

30) -Fighting all sorts of hardships.

    -Being buffeted by the waves of adversity.

    -Tasting the sweets and bitters of life.

  -산전수전

("Go through hell and high water."

: 산전수전을 겪다. )