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What was it like when you were in school?

학교 다니실 때 어떠셨어요?

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I experienced a little bit playground bullying at school.

[학교에서 놀이터에서 왕따 당한적은 있지.]

He used to rough-handle[rough me up] , maybe give me a punch in the gut or something.

to ​hit and ​kick someone, usually to ​frighten or ​threaten them

==> rough up

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I was kind of the oddball ethnically because I lived in a really homogeneous area, so I was the one Asian.

It worked to my benefits at the same time, because I was different, so people wanted to be my friend

[그래도 좋은 점도 있었어 왜냐하면 나만 다른 사람이라서 사람들이 나랑 친구가 되고 싶어 했거든.]

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I was the kind of person to stick up for those who were being bullied.

[나는 왕따 당하는 사람 편에 서려고 하던 편이었어.]

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They pick up on[notice] the minutest details. If something is different, then they pick on that.

[사소한거 보고 그게 좀 자기랑 다르다 싶으면 그걸로 시비걸지.]

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Not doing so well at school, they need to stand out in other ways and try to gain popularity because nobody wants to be friends with the underdog.

[학교에서 잘 못 지내니까 다른 방법으로라도 돋 보이고 싶었고 그걸로 인기 좀 있으려고 하는 거지 왜냐하면 아무도 약해 빠진 사람들[별로인 사람이랑] 친구되고 싶지 않잖아.]

can't stand injustices: 불의를 참지 못 하다.

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tar·paulin : 방수포

a while back ==> 예전에, 

a while ago. Some time in the past, as in

 I ran into Barbara a while back but didn't get her new 

address

John wrote me a while ago about his new baby

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Have you ever seen the number of cases of cyber bullying increasing on the news these days?

[요즘 cyber-bullying 사건[사례]가 늘어나고 있는 거 최근에 봤어?]

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It's much easier because no one is going to know who did it. They can't put a face to it.

to remember the name of someone who you recognize

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You maybe start out just playfully teasing someone, then others join in, and when it's on a social network site or something like that, it can get out of control and snowball really quickly.

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You've gotta hold people accountable so that they don't do it again in the future.

to monitor younger children and their use of the Internet.

[아이들이랑 인터넷 사용에 대해 감시를 

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 to ​leave an ​insulting ​message on he internet in ​order to ​annoy someone:Getting trolled is one of the most ​annoying things about ​buying​stuff on the internet.
a ​message that someone ​leaves on the internet that is ​intended to ​annoy ​people:A well-constructed troll will ​provoke ​irate or ​confused ​responses from ​flamers and ​newbies.

Do you believe in life after death,Karma, Reincarnation?

[사후 세계, 업보, 환생이 있다고 믿어?]

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tingle: 따끔거리다(stinging) 라는 뜻도.

tingle: shiver, creep

My ​fingers and ​toes are tingling with the ​cold.[손가락이랑 발가락이 취위 때문에 얼얼했다.]There's a ​line in that ​poem that makes my ​spine tingle every ​time I ​read it.[ 그 시를 읽을 때마다 나의 온 몸[척추]를 흠칫하게 하는 행이 있다.]
She tingled with ​fear as she ​entered the ​dark ​alleyway.[ 그녀는 어두운 복도를 들어가면서 두려움 흠칫했다.]

I have had sort of a tingling.

You had an impersonal experience with a ghost?

impersonal: indifferent, supernatural

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I could sort of sense something in the room. I don't like the dark.

[방에 뭔가가 있다고 느낄 수/감지할 수 있어. 나는 어두운 거 싫어해.]

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 someone, ​especially a ​child, who is ​easily ​frightened:Come on, scaredy-cat - it won't ​bite you!

I was such a scaredy pants[scaredy-cat].I was not very good with scary stories but I stayed and listened to it.

be good with = deal with well.

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And, suddenly, things started getting a little weird. Once again ,just a sensation.

[그런데 갑자기 뭔가/분위기가 싸해 지는 거야 / 이상해지는 거야. 느낌이..]

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He seems to be good with faces and names.

[너는 사람 얼굴이랑 이름을 잘 외우는 거 같아.]

I had a strong impulse to shout and run

He had an impulse to get out of there.

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Some scientists are studying hotspots form paranormal activity.

doing the usual: 평소에 하는 것을 하다.

hotspot => 전쟁/분재이 일어날 가능성이 높은 지역

             인기있는 장소, Wi-fi 가능한 곳

to vibrate the jelly[eyeball] in people's eyes => 

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막걸리 => rice wine.

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a crystal ball  => 수정 구슬 

(서양의 점쟁이들이 점을 칠 때 사용하는 것.)

Have you ever been to one of the fortune tellers on the street?

[길거리에 있는 점쟁이한테 가 본 적 있어?]

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I think more so here than other places, especially for deciding if your mate is correct. Or choosing the names for your babies. 

[한국은 특히 많이 그런는 것 같아.~~~]

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That’s important. I think in general, a lot of females go to these fortune tellers.

Yeah. I don’t think men really care that much about it.

They get dragged along by their girlfriends.

남자들은 여자 친구들한테 끌려 가지.

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It’s fun, sometimes, when the reading turns out to be really positive.

reading: 점[점쟁이가 말해주는 것]

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<Korean fortune tellers get your name, birth date etc..

to interpret them and tell you your fortune.>

Exactly, and your name as well. Like you said, the time is 

really important. A lot of mothers or future mothers-in-

law go and secretly get this done *behind their son’s 

backs. I found that funny.  

[많은 엄마들이랑 시어머니가 될 사람들이 아들 몰래 가서 

점을 많이 본다고 하더라고. 그거 웃기더라고. 

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fortune teller => palm reader, spiritualist, psychic

reading => review, interpretation.

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We dragged Tina into a fortune teller.

Last weekend, I was on a drag-along with my friend to a 

club.

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I was flirting with a girl, and she wanted to read my palm.

I held out my hand and then she started tracing the lines on my hand. 

She started telling me things about my future like, “Oh you have such a long life line!” 

I have a bad feeling about today.

I have a strange feeling about this room.

I am not a very superstitious person.

[나는 그렇게 미신을 믿는 사람이 아니야.]

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But the first thing I saw as I walked out of the house was a black cat. That got to me. 

[내가 집을 나오자마자 제일 본 게 검은색 고양이었어. 그게 계속 신경 쓰여.]

If you walk under a ladder, you'll have bad luck.

[That's an American thing.] 

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It's just a bunch of religious, superstitious mumbo-jumbo.

You are not supposed to whistle at night in Korea because it will bring out snakes.

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시험 관련 미신: 미역국, 엿 

If you have seaweed soup just before an exam, it’ll make you slip and fail. And if you have something chewy like toffee or taffy, it’ll help you pass the exam.

  엿

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태몽과 관련된

I think I’ve heard of… dreaming of a dragon or a tiger, (that) you’ll have a baby boy. But that’s not always the case. What about pig dreams?

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mumbo-jumbo => meaningless, nonsense.

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For some reason, we all had a good feeling about the project.

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get to => affect negatively

His voice really gets to me.

Her whining really got to me.

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Pouring alcohol to elders with two hands is a Korean thing. [한국적인 것]

Guys will never understand because it’s a girl thing.

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I think superstition is a way of controlling people's behavior more than based on reality.

People used to say that cats were the familiars of witches so a black cat crossing your path was considered bad luck

the familiars of witches => 마녀를 연상시키는 것.

Hey what's your (zodiac, star) sign? You know, that was the biggest pick-up line of the 1970s?

[너는 별자리가 뭐야? 그거 1970년도에 썼던 흔한 작업 멘트 였지.]

You got me worried for a second.

[야 놀랬잖아. (순간 걱정을 함.)

(She thought that that was really a pick-up line.)

What sort of personality trait do they have usually?

[그 별자리인 사람들은 어떤 성격이야?]

left-brained / right-brained 

==> refer to people who mainly use one side of their brain.

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All of my signs are meant to be bold, ferocious,brave.. extroverted

Are you those things?

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I am meant to be, a party-goer, out-there personality type of person, Are you (a) blood type O? 

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Do you find much interest in reading your horoscope?

I just read it for fun.

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It's interesting to see the love compatibility and what to watch out for in the day. But it's just for fun.

love compatibility: 궁합, 사랑 운세

sexual compatibility: 속궁합

what to watch out for in the day: 그 날 조심해야 할 것.

오늘의 운세를 보다: read one's horoscope.

charismatic: appealing, alluring, magnetic, 

ferocious: cruel, fierce, relentless

out-there : eccentric, (돌아이 느낌..)

adj. 1. crazy; mentally deranged; scatter-brained, loony. 
2. so extremely individualistic so as to appear mentally unstable. 
3. Not conforming to mores, accepted norms, or standards.

I tried to reason with Chris, but he's out there. 

compatibility: harmony in relationship.

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He has the devil in his heart. 

She has the devil in her angel eyes.

--> 강인함, 냉정함. 이런것.. 

Guess what blood type I am.

=> 내 혈액형 맞추어 봐!~

There's a funny anecdote. (재밌는 일화가 있다.)

He hands out horoscopes to everyone.

He says, "Each of these horoscopes is specified to you."

Do you think people can communicate with their minds?

I was letting my mind communicate with yours.

Do you believe in telepathy?

my friends were twins. They used to communicate without even talking to each other. 

non-verbal communication

It was so surreal. 

They were in different locations, and they happened to think the same thing.

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It's supposedly something you've experienced before that you are re-experiencing. But I think it's more just a trick of the mind. 

I've heard perceptions like smells or sounds trigger these memories.

I feel like I have been here before.

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subtle = delicate, mysterious, slight 

surreal = dreamlike.

impend = approach

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We communicated with our eyes.

We always think the same things. That's why we are best friends.

When I was a kid, I had a dream about walking into a room, seeing a very specific light fixture, a certain color on the wall, certain furniture arranged in the room and playing a game with a friend of mine, a very specific game I had never played before.

A week later I went to my friend's house.

There was the light fixture, there was the color wall, there was the same furniture, there was the same game we played