brittle: 잘 부러지는, 불안정한,
: easily broken or cracked
: not strong : easily damaged
: sharp in sound
wreak havoc (with something)
to cause a lot of trouble with something; to ruin or damage
something.
Your bad attitude will wreak havoc with my project.
The rainy weather wreaked havoc with our picnic plans.
Storms wreaked havoc on both coasts of the United States.
Strikes have wreaked havoc on businesses here.
salient: 가장 중요한, 핵심적인; 가장 두드러진, 현저한
: very important or noticeable
- Then there were those who doubted the need for radio in the first place, since the telegraph was already ubiquitous. Marconi's salient achievement was to realize that radio waves could be transmitted across vast distances, an incalculable step forward in mass communications. —Kevin Baker, New York Times Book Review, 5 Nov. 2006
- A 2002 study conducted at the University of Illinois by Diener and Seligman found that the most salient characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment to spending time with them. —Claudia Wallis, Time, 17 Jan. 2005
cajole: 꼬득이다, 회유하다.
to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by making promises or saying nice things
ludicrous: very foolish, 터무니없는
detailed meanings.
: amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity meriting derisive laughter or scorn as absurdly inept, false, or foolish
- <the ludicrous sight of their teacher in a Halloween costume>
- <a ludicrous and easily detected attempt to forge his father's signature on a note to school>
- Some of this censorship is trivial, some is ludicrous, and some is breathtaking in its power to dumb down what children learn in school. —Diane Ravitch, The Language Police, 2003
