[YBM 톡톡 생활영어] artists should get their due. 예술가들은 노력한 대가를 받아야 한다.

◇오늘의 학습 주제

A: Did you misappropriate this flick off the Net?

B: I'm shocked that you'd think that I'd stoop so low.

A: I'm just asking. You wouldn't be the first or the last.

B: I support the arts and feel 예술가들은 노력한 대가를 받아야 한다.



◇해석 및 해설

A: 인터넷에서 이 영화 불법다운 받았니?

B: 내가 그 정도 밖에 안 된다고 생각하다니 쇼크 받았다.

A: 그냥 물어본 것뿐이야. 너만 그런 건 아니잖아. 다운 받는 사람들이 한둘이야?

B: 난 예술을 옹호하고, artists should get their due라고 생각하는 1인이라구.



◇부가표현

*Did you misappropriate this flick

Did you download this movie illegally / Did you steal this movie

*off the Net

from the Internet / through a link on the Internet / by way of the Net

*I'm shocked that you'd think that

I can't believe that you'd assume that / I'm appalled that you'd say that

*I'd stoop so low

I'd do something so wrong / I could do anything bad like that

*I'm just asking.

I just thought I'd mention it. / There's no harm in asking.

*You wouldn't be the first or the last.

If you had done that, you would not have been the only one.

*I support the arts

I do my best to help artists / I am willing to pay for the art I enjoy

*feel artists should get their due

believe that artists deserve to get paid / think artists earn their income