<우리말 속담/사자성어를 영어로~>

1) -Delicacies of all lands and seas.

    -Rare delicacies of all description.

    -Rich food of the earth and the sea.

  -산해진미

2)  -The three basic human relations between sovereign and subject, father and son, husband and    wife.

   -The three bonds.

  -삼강

3) Moral rules to govern the Five Human Relations.

  -오륜

4) -Breaking [tearing] asunder

(*asunder: 따로따로)   
-Disruption.

-삼분오열

5) By twos and threes.

  -삼삼오오

6) -The [holy, blessed] Trinity.

   -Consubstantiality.

   (Trinitarianism:~론)

  (Trinitarian:~론자)

  (Doctrine of trinity:~설=consubstantiality of the three persons of the Trinity)

  -삼위 일체

7) Even a mere child knows it.

  -삼척동자도 그것은 안다.

8) Feel a moment as if it were three years.

  -일각이 여삼추

9) Best two out of three [games].

  -삼판양승

10) The highest peak [summit].

  -상상봉

11)  -Convulsions of nature.

      -Cataclysm

     -Violent changes in nature.

(*as when mulberry fields turn to blue sea and blue sea turns to mulberry fields)
(*mulberry:봉나무, 오디)

  -상전벽해

12) -The three grades of good, fair and poor.

     -The first, the second and the third.

     -All three volumes [of a 3-volume set/책의 상중하]

     -A set of three volumes:3권(한질)

     -A three-decker novel: 3부작 소설

   -상중하

13) -The best plan to be thought of.

    -최상책

14)  -A blessing in disguise.

    -새옹지마

15) Inscrutable are the ways of Heaven.

   -인간만사 새옹지마

16) -Far-sightedness.

    -The gift of foresight.

    -Far-seeing wisdom.

   -선견지명

17) Slender [delicate] hands.

   -섬섬옥수

18) -The ethical view that human nature is evil.

     -The doctrine of original sin.

  -성악설

19) -The view that man is born good.

     -The doctrine of innate goodness.

   -성선설

20) -Helplessness.

     -Resourcelessness.

     -Being at a loss.

    -Being at one's wit's end.

  -속수무책



Posted by 윤강로 (Rocky YOON)