소설_영단어_Our Hideous Progeny

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Our Hideous Progeny

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저자

McGill C E

출판

HarperCollins US

출판일

2023.05.09

 

It caught upon every gilded title on the bookshelves, lighting up any polished ammonite like a mirror.

- page 7

Ammonite: US∙GB [ ˈæmənaɪt ] US [ ˈæmənaɪt ]
암모나이트(멸종된 연체동물의 화석)

But Mr. Jamsetjee, who spoke and dressed like a London gentleman, flummoxed them entirely.

- page 53

Flummox: [ˈfləməks]
informal
(be flummoxed)
perplex (someone) greatly; bewilder: puzzle, confuse, confound, baffle, mystify, bemuse
당황하게 [혼란스럽게] 만들다

I knew that the residents of Newport complained about the lascar sailors, their 'uncouth and lazy' ways.

- page 79

Lascar: [ˈlaskər]
(noun 명사) (dated 예전 시대에 쓰였던 단어) a sailor from India or Southeast Asia.
(외국선을 타고 근무하는) 동(東) 인도인 선원

Rebuking someone via monograph simply doesn't have the same panache, he said drily.
He gave a smile, insouciant, and pluked his papers from the desk.

- page 90

Panache: US∙GB [ pə|næʃ; pæ│næʃ ] US [ pə|nɑːʃ ]
flamboyant confidence of style or manner. 위풍당당 

Insouciant: US∙GB [ insú:siənt]
showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
무관심한; 태평한, 걱정 없는

I walked to one of the dormer windows and ran my hand across the glass, cold and whorled with age.

- page 142

Dormer:
[ˈdôrmər] a window that projects vertically from a sloping roof.
지붕창, 지붕창의 돌출 구조부

Whorl:
[(h)wôrl, (h)wərl]
a pattern of spirals or concentric circles. 와상문, 소용돌이무늬

 

We became veritable hermits.

- page 167

Veritable: [ˈvərədəb(ə)l]
진정한 (참된), 참으로, 실제로, 진짜 true, accurate, correct, precise, factual.
(강조의 뜻으로 쓰임 Used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor)

 

...books that spoke of quintessence and panaceas and aquae vitae.

quintessence: [kwinˈtes(ə)ns]
the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class. (무엇의 완벽한) 전형

panaceas:
US∙GB [ ˌpænəˈsiːə ] US [ ˌpænəˈsiːə ]
a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases. 만병통치약

aquae vitae:
an old term describing many different types of distilled spirits. 알코올; 독한 술 (brandy, whiskey 등)

 

abiogenesis:
Spontaneous generation of life. 자연발생 자생.