동성애 관련
homosexuality <----> heterosexuality
(동성애) (이성애)
homosexuals <------> heterosexuals
(동성애자) (이성애자)
homophobia: 동성애 혐오
xenophobia: 외국인 혐오
sexual minorities: 성적 소수자
I am straight. (나는 이성애자입니다.)
I am gay[queer]. (나는 동성애자입니다.)
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to come out of the closet: 동성애자임을 밝히다.
to stay in the closet: 동성애자임을 숨긴채 살아가다.
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opposite-sex[heterosexual] couples(이성애자 결혼)
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civil unions (시민 결합)
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to defend traditional marriage: 전통적 결혼을 옹호하다.
to limit marriage to opposite-sex partners.
(결혼을 남녀간의 일로 제한한다.)
to ban same-sex marriage: 동성결혼을 금지하다
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They have no qualms about their sexual orientation.
(성적 취향에 대해 전혀 거리낌/스스럼 없다.)
Your sexual orientation is with you from birth.
(성적 취향은 태어나면서 타고 나는 것이다.)
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A much-talked about TV drama features a somewhat unlikely couple.
==> 많이 회자되는 드라마에는 다소 현실에서 마주 하기 힘든 커플이 등장한다.
A feature B: A(영화, 드라마)에 B(배우)가 나온다.
=== B star in A
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Controversy is arising over homosexuality in this society. Some point out that the drama glosses over negative aspects of love between the same sexes.
school history textbooks glossing over the Japan's wartime aggression.
(일본의 침략 전쟁을 유야무야하며 호도하는 학교 역사 교과서)
to avoid considering something, such as an embarrassingmistake, to make it seem not important, and to quickly continue talking about something else:She glossed over the company's declining profits.The documentary glossed over some important issues
===> 어물쩍 저물쩍 넘아가다.
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cast[shed] light on ~: ~을 조명하다,
~을 생각하게 만들다.
It presents an opportunity to think about homosexuality.
As it is, homosexual couples have no choice but to be a minority group because of Korea's social mores.
(한국의 사회적 풍토 때문에)
As it is: 그렇듯이, 이와 같이
the traditional customs and ways of behaving that are typical of a particular (part of) society: 풍습, 관습middle-class moresthe mores and culture of the JapaneseThe novel examines the mores of nineteenth-century Boston society.
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Given Koreans' conservative bent,
===> 한국인의 보수적인 기질을 고려해보면