직장 회식 문화(an office drinking session, a boozy office dinner)
heavy drinkers = hard-core drinkers
binge drinkers(폭음하는 사람), binge drinking
at a sitting, in one sitting(한 번 앉으면)
at one time; during one period. (Usually refers to an activity that takes place while a person is seated.)
The restaurant could feed only sixty people at a sitting.
I can read about three hundred pages at a sitting.
if you do something at one sitting, you do it during one period of time without stopping
I read the whole book in one sitting.
during a short period of time
A month's supply of that drug taken at one sitting would kill you.
I read the book in one sitting and couldn't get to sleep after I finished it
drink late into the night(밥 늦게까지 마시다).
I'm pretty high.(벌써 취했다),
I'm feeling a bit tipsy.(약간 알딸딸하다)
I blacked out last night(지난 밤에 필름이 끊겼다.)
I suffered from a hangover.(숙취에 시달렸다)
직장회식: staff dinner after work, an off-the-clock office dinner
a boozy office dinner, an office drinking session after work.
staff dinner after work.
arrange an office dinner / attend an office dinner
a booze year-end party,
My employer demands more off-the-clock hours(overtime).
(회사가 추가근무를 요구한다.)
overtime pay(추가 근무 수당)
pass a glass over to other people(술잔을 돌리다.)
take a laid-off coworker out for a consolation drink.
(잘린 동료에게 위로주를 사주다.)
a boilermaker(beer cocktail)(폭탄주)
/ go easy on beer(맥주 좀 작작 마셔라)
The corporate drinking culture has reached a dangerous situation.
(직장 내 음주문화가 위험수위를 넘어섰다.)
One survey shows that about half of the office workers polled
(설문에 응답한 사람의 절반정도가)
responded that they didn't want to attend office drinking sessions after work because they were pressed to drink more they could handle.
Worse, such events never end in the first round of drinking sessions but goes into a second and even third round, leading almost all participants into binge drinking.
Who in the world would have the nerve not to ~
어느 간 큰 회사원이 불참을 하겠는가?
I don't have the nerve to defy him.
(감히 그 사람에게 덤빌 자신이 없다._
a second economic crisis(미래의 가능성)