Speeches & Storytelling

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The Youngest-Ever Female International Master

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

booster seat: 어린이용 보조 의자
At just ten years old, Bodana Sivanandan is so small she needs a booster seat to see the board.

trounce (someone): 완파하다
The fifth grader from the UK regularly trounces adult champions, decades her senior, and is now the youngest ever female international master – the game’s second highest rank.

secondhand: 중고의
When Bidana was just five, her father brought home a secondhand chess set.

coach: 과외 교사
Within weeks, she was beating her dad, learning to master the game, not from a coach, but from lessons on YouTube.

veteran: 전문가
And today, videos of her defeating veteran players regularly go viral.

pressure: 압박
Do you ever feel like it’s too much pressure?

ancient: 고대의
An ancient game where a kid can be a queen.

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Son Heung-Min on Change of Culture Playing in the U.S.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

overseas: 해외
After they paid a record $20 million transfer fee to bring him in from overseas.

jersey: (운동 경기용) 셔츠
athlete: 운동선수
The general manager for the club says since you signed with LAFC, you sold more jerseys than any other athlete in the entire world.

grateful: 고마워하는
I’m so, so grateful that everybody looking for my name on my shirts.

immediate: 즉각적인
And his impact has been immediate.

transition: 이행
pastime: 취미
And as part of the transition to America, we watched him practice America’s pastime.

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TikTok CEO: You Need to Be Global and Local

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

gigantic: 거대한
prominent: 눈에 띄는
Most of the large Chinese technology, companies, let’s say Alibaba, Baidu, and Tecent, they have gigantic market values, and they’re very prominent in China.

by contrast: 반대로
TikTok, by contrast, is not in China, but it’s gigantic outside of China, in the United States, and everywhere.

challenging to build (something): (무언가를) 구축하기 어려운
We think it’s challenging to build a global company in general.

adapt: 적응하다
But the best ones we’ve seen so far are ones that take very consistent global learnings and adapt them to the local countries they are operating in.

for example: 예를 들어
at this point: 이 시점에서
For example, here in the US, we have a very sizable team here in New York and Austin, in LA at this point.

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How I Raised $1 Million for 20 Percent of Amazon.com

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

raise money: 모금하다
When I raised money for Amazon, I had to raise a million dollars.

take (a) meeting: 회의를 열다
So, I had to take 60 meetings to get 20 “yeses.”

walk through (something): (어떤 것을 배울 수 있도록) 설명하다
The first question was always, “what’s the internet?” And, I had to walk through that.

fast forward to today: 오늘로 빨리 이동하다
And, so did I anticipate, you know, fast forward to today and the current version of (Amazon)? No.

one foot in front of the other: 도전과 어려움 속에서 한 걸음 한 걸음 앞으로 나아가다
It has been one foot in front of the other and I think that is true for most businesses.

double down on (something): (무언가에) 전념하다
You have a success and you kind of double down on that success.

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Telling Stories With Data in 3 Steps

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Vocabulary & Expressions

fictional: 허구적인, 지어낸
It could be fictional, but it’s a reality you’ve created for the story.

indexed to: ~에 맞춘
…these home prices are indexed to 2005.

steadily: 꾸준히
…home prices rose steadily in most places in the world for 30 years…

bifurcate: 두 갈래로 나뉘다
…something different happened this time…the market’s bifurcated.

generic: 일반적인
…a generic title about global real home prices, which is boring and not helpful…

seamless: 아주 매끄러운
…it almost looks seamless, as if I’m just showing you one chart that changes state.

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Now This Is How You Captivate an Audience

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Vocabulary & Expressions

tragedy: 비극
…the death of one man is a tragedy, and the death of a million is a statistic.

defend oneself: 자신을 보호하다
…and we see a proud people standing up to defend themselves…

blotter: (경찰의) 사건 기록부
She went online onto the blotter and found out that that 18-year-old girl had died.

specific: 구체적인, 특정한
When you tell a story about a specific person, you feel it way more…

flat fee: 정액 요금
If they did flat fee we’d all be fine.

relate: 관련시키다
…and people will relate their experience to the Joneses, not to the 55 houses you’ve sold…

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Body Language Tips From a Public Speaking Champion

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Vocabulary & Expressions

vital organ: (심장·뇌 등의) 생명 유지에 필수적인 기관
When you get nervous, you try to cover your vital organs…

as opposed to: ~와 반대로
…connect with the speaker better, as opposed to showing the back…

move about: 움직이다, 돌아다니다
…when you’re comfortable on the stage that you’re speaking on, your body is freer to move about…

feel foreign: 이질감을 느끼다, 낯설다
constrict: 위축되다
…and if you feel foreign on that stage, what happens is your body language starts to constrict…

rest: (어떤 것에) 받치다, 기대다
Don’t rest your hands on the podium. 
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Obama Addresses Disinformation in Speech at Stanford

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Vocabulary & Expressions

impediment: 장애물
…one of the biggest impediments to doing all of this…

blur: 흐려지다, 모호해지다
distortion: 왜곡
subtle manipulation: 미세한 조작
No one tells us that the window is blurred, subject to unseen distortions, and subtle manipulations.

quackery: 엉터리 수법
misogynist screed: 여성 혐오에 대한 장황한 글 
…flow alongside lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, white supremacists, racist tracts, misogynist screeds…

at the end of the day: 결국 가장 중요한 것은
At the end of the day, tools don’t control us…
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A New Year’s Message From the U.S. President

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Vocabulary & Expressions

tough:  강한 
This virus has been tough, but we’ve been tougher.

first responder: 응급의료요원, 긴급 구조원
front line: 최전선, 최전방 
We’ve seen that in the dedication shown by the doctors…first responders, and all front line and essential workers.

stand guard: 지키다, 보호하다
We’ve seen it in the courage of our service members and military families who stand guard over our freedom…

at (one’s) best:  최선을 다해  
At our best, we’ve taken every crisis we’ve faced and turned it into an opportunity to be a stronger and a better nation.

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Jeff Bezos on Executive Decision-Making

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Vocabulary & Expressions

prioritize: 우선으로 두다, 우선순위를 매기다
I prioritize it unless I’m travelling different time zones.

get paid to (do something): (~을 하기 위해) 돈을 받다
As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high quality decisions.

arithmetic: 산수, 연산
If I did that arithmetic wrong I am sorry.

grouchy: 기분이 나쁜, 불평이 많은 …because you’re tired or grouchy any number of things?…

quarter: 분기, 4분의 1
bake: 만들어지다(‘굽다’라는 bake를 사용해서 구워지다 즉, ‘만들어지다’로 사용)
But what I’m really thinking is that quarter was baked three years ago.

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