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Take a breath: 한 숨 돌리다.

Take a deep breath: 한 숨 크게 쉬다.

 Your breath is the air that you let out through your mouth when you breathe. If someone has bad breath, their breath smells unpleasant.

Smoking causes bad breath. (bad breath: 입 냄새)

 If you go outside for a breath of fresh air or for a breath of  air, you go outside because it is unpleasantly warm indoors.

--> go out for air , go out for some fresh air, 

go out and get some fresh air

A breath of fresh air: a refreshing change from what one is used to

 Angela's like a breath of fresh air when she comes to stay.

After all the criticism, his positive comments came as a breath of fresh air.

When you get your breath back after doing something energetic, you 

start breathing normally again.

 When you catch your breath while you are doing something 

energetic, you stop for a short time so that you can start breathing 

normally again.==> 뭔가 육체적으로 힘든 일을 하다가 숨을 고르다.

 If you hold your breath, you make yourself stop breathing for a few moments, for example because you are under water.

If something makes you catch your breath, it makes you take a short breath of air, usually because it shocks you.

Kenny caught his breath as Nikko nearly dropped the bottle.

 If you say that someone is holding their breath, you mean 

that they are waiting anxiously or excitedly for something to happen. (숨 죽이며 기다리다)

If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly,

for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.  => 숨이 가빠지고 힘들어지다.

 If you say something under your breath, you say it in a very quiet 

voice, often because you do not want other people to hear 

what you are saying.(얼버무리다)

Like most of us, you probably don't want to wait. Instead, you want more immediate results.

To be sure, future chapter will further discuss the strategies and tips generally described here.

(뒷 장에서 이 장에서 간략하게 설명된 전략들과 팁들은 나중에 더 자세하게 설명이 됩니다. 안심하세요.)

If you are reading a novel for your own pleasure, it's fine to just open the book and start reading, making little or no effort to focus or distribute your attention selectively.

The method is called SQ3R(Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review), and it reflects everything Robinson knew about the workings of the human mind.

working

(명사로  <기계, 조직, 시스템>의 작동, 운영방식 이라는 뜻이다.)

the -s의 형태로 많이 사용되는 듯...

an introduction to the workings of Congress

the machine's inner workings

Predictions about how the author's thoughts will unfold.

It helps to decrease forgetting right after reading.

Since Robinson created SQ3R, other systems have come along, most of them quite similar and distinguished only by the acronym, or initials, used to create the name.

Instead, divide assignments into manageable chunks of fifteen to twenty pages at most. That way, you'll maintain your concentration the entire time it takes to complete that chunk of the assignment.

Try to predict how the flow the author's thought will develop.

Robinson's thought was that whenever students finished a chapter section, they should look away from the book and briefly recite answers to the questions they had posed initially. Recitation was a way of monitoring, or checking, comprehension so that students couldn't trick themselves into thinking they had understood a text they really needed to read a second time.

As the author, I couldn't be happier that Reading for Thinking has earned another edition. Still, revising it was something of a balancing act.

Yet while keeping what worked,I also wanted to respond to suggestions from longtime users as well as current reviewers.

(별 문제 없는 부분은 그대로 둔 상태에서..~)

The purpose of these additions is to familiarize students with some of the words bound to appear in their textbooks.

(이런 부분들을 추가한 목적은~...)

Being able to organize new information into an overarching pattern makes it easier to store that information in long-term memory. 

 You use overarching to indicate that you are talking about something that includes or affects everything or everyone.

most ​important, because of ​including or ​affecting all other ​areas

1. Computer downtime is an overarching problem in all departments.
2. The overarching question seems to be what happens when the US pulls out?

(독자들은 더불어 이 '장'이 포괄적으로 되어서 책의 후반부에 설명되는 내용도 포함되었으면 좋겠다고 했다.)

Although experienced readers are likely to connect pronouns and antecedents without even noticing they are doing it, connecting pronouns to the nouns they stand for can be problematic for many readers.

An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.(선행된 사건, 문법에서는 선행사)

An underutilized resource: 충분히 활용하지 못하는 자원

Pages devoted to paraphrasing: paraphrasing에 할애된 페이지들

The perfect precursor to Reading for Thinking, Reading for Results lays the groundwork for all the skills introduced in its more advanced sister text.

groundwork: 기초작업, precursor: 전조, 선행하는 어떤 것.