무게와 깊이가 있는 장편 소설로 유명한 가즈오 이시구로가 의외의 유머 감각을 보여주는 단편 Come Rain or Come Shine을 읽어봅니다.
Back then, Emily was slim and beautiful, and if she hadn’t settled on Charlie so early in her university career, I’m sure she’d have had a whole bunch of men competing for her. But she was never flirty or tarty, so once she was with Charlie, the other suitors backed off.
“That’s the only reason I keep Charlie around,” she told me once, with a dead straight face, then burst out laughing when I looked shocked. “Just a joke, silly. Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling.”
워크샵에서는 주요 표현과 어휘를 살펴보고 글에 대한 감상도 함께 나눕니다. 위의 글을 사전 없이 읽고 (모든 단어를 이해하지 못하더라도) 아래 질문에 답할 수 있다면 아테나의 부엉이와 함께 영어 원서 읽기를 시작해 보세요!
Q. What does Emily jokingly say is the reason for keeping Charlie around?
Athena's Owl 