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Handmaid's Tale

AWARDS - Man Booker Prize FINALIST 1986 The seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning, soon to be a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…. Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and literary tour de force.

저자

Margaret Atwood

출판

Anchor Books

출판일

1998.03.16

 

https://www.amazon.com/Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood/dp/038549081X
 
From: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Note b

 

Rendezvous, it says, terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever.

- page 153

Sibilants:
Sibilant: [ˈsi-bə-lənt]
: a sibilant speech sound (such as English \s\, \z\, \sh\, \zh\, \ch(=tsh)\, or \j(=dzh)\)
치찰음처럼 ‘쉬쉬’ 소리를 내는

I would steel myself.
I would pretend not to be present, not in flesh.

- page 160

Steel (동사):
: to overlay, point, or edge with steel. 뾰족한 코너 또는 모서리를 강철로 덧씌우기.
: to cause to resemble steel (as in looks or hardness). 강철처럼 강하게 하다 (겉모습과 그 강한 정도를). 
: to fill with resolution or determination. 결의나 투지를 갖다.

Adolescents are always such prudes.

Prudes:
prude: [ˈprüd]
: a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum especially.
: 특히 메너나 예의에 지나치게 세심한 주의를 기울이는 사람.
: a woman who shows or affects extreme modesty.
 : 극도의 겸손함을 보이거나 자신이 겸손한 사람이라는 걸 남이 알아주길 바라는
( 얌전한체 내숭을 떠는) 여자.

He's only my flag, my semaphore. Body language.

- page 181

Semaphore: [ˈse-mə-ˌfȯr ]
Semaphores:
: as in signaller. : 신호기(자) 처럼. 
: an apparatus for visual signaling (as by the position of one or more movable arms).
 (하나 이상의 가동 팔의 위치에 따라) 시각적 신호를 위한 장치.
: a system of visual signaling by two flags held one in each hand.
두 개의 깃발을 한 손에 하나씩 들고 하는 시각적 신호 체계.

Down there on the lawn, someone emerges from the spill of darkness under the willow,
stops across the light, his long shadow attached sharply to his heel.

- page 191

*** 이 문장에는 어려운 단어는 없지만  '자신의 기다란 그림자를 발꿈치에 뚜렷하게 단' 한 인물이
버드나무 아래,  그 나무의 어두운 그림자안을 벗어나
잔디밭 정원을 (이 때는 빛 속으로) 건너 걸어가는 모습의 묘사가 좋아서 노트했다.

 

And when we are keeling, heads bowed slightly, I can hear from all around us a susurration,
like the rustling of insects in tall city grass: a cloud of whispers.

- page 219

Susurration: [ sü-sə-ˈrā-shən]
: a whispering sound : MURMUR 속삭이는 소리
: as in whisper. 귓속말처럼 속삭이는

Certainly I am not dismayed by these women, not shocked  by them.
I recognize them as truants.

- page 235

Truants:
truant: [ˈtrü-ənt]
: one who shirks duty. 의무 회피자
(무단 결석생)