(윤강로 영어)영어를 우리말 처럼~(스포츠외교소통: 제91편)

<우리말 사자숙어를 영어로~>

 

1) -Having a big haul at a single cast of the net

    -A wholesale arrest

    -A roundup

  -일망타진

2) -Perfect order

   -Being shipshape

   -Thorough consistency

  -일사분란

3) -Rapid advance

   -Torrential eloquence

  -일사천리

4) [Killing] two birds with one stone

  -일석이조
5) [Cutting] two trees with one saw

  -일톱 이목
6) Utter ignorance

  -일자무식

7) -Merits and demerits

   -Strength and weakness

  -일장일단

8) A delicate [touch-and-go] situation

  -일촉즉발

9) Daily progress and monthly advance

  -일취월장

10) Dashing off with one stroke of a brush

  -일필휘지

11) Making a big fortune on a single occasion [with one swoop]

  -일확천금

12) Pre-harvest sale of rice crop

  -입도선매

13) -A guilty conscience

     -A feeling of self-accusation

  -자격지심

14) Self-sufficiency  

  -자급자족

15) The natural consequences of one's own deeds

  -자업자득

16) -From the beginning to the end

    -From start to finish

    -All the details

    -Full particulars

  -자초지정

17) Self-abandonment

  -자포자기

18) -To blow one's own trumpet/horn

     -To ring one's own bell

  -자화자찬

19) Superior talents and inferior virtue

  -재승덕박

20) The thief turns on the master with a clue.

  -적반하장

21) The survival of the fittest

  -적자생존

22) The right man in the right place

  -적재적소

23) A bolt of lightening

  -전광석화

24) The unprecedented [unparalleled] in history

  -전무후무

25) -Every cloud has a silver lining.

    -A misfortune turning into a blessing

  -전화위복
(*새옹지마: the irony of fate)
(*인간만사 새옹지마: -Inscrutable are the ways of Heaven.
                         -An evil may sometimes turn out to be a blessing in disguise.)

26) -Swindling by a clever trick

     -The confidence game

   -조삼모사

27) Being unable to sit comfortably

  -좌불안석

28) Having a free hand

  -좌지우지

29) Spending the days in the field and the nights at one's books

  -주경야독