An american Marriage p8-11

Jerry Seinfeld / 미국의 코미디언, Seinfeld라는 시트콤

- Not that there was anything wrong with~ / 자주 사용하는 표현 중 하나

White people say, "It beats digging a ditch"; black people say, "It beats picking cotton."

beat v. ~보다 훨씬 낫다

Fresh milk beats powdered milk anytime. 생우유가 분유보다 단연 낫다

it beats doing sth ~ 하는 것보다 훨씬 낫다(편하다, 쉽다)_

We have the newspaper delivered to us- it beats having to go out and buy one.

우리는 신문을 배달시켜요. 나가서 사오는 것보다 훨씬 편하니까요.

nothing beats sth ~만한 것이 없다

- a button-down corporate type : 회사원 타입

- pedigree (역사, 업적 등의) 내력 / (상류층 등의) 가계 / (개, 말 등의) 혈통

patent leather 에나멜가죽

the luck of the draw : 운(우연)의 결과, lucky

she was a genius with needle and thread

= she's good at sawing

- a glass-bottom cabana

- fro : afro hair style

- paper anniversary : 1st anniversary

- Cascade Road : 아틀란타에 있는 유명한 도로명

p10

- pop the question 청혼하다

- get jacked : get robbed

- frisson

- 99.997 percent : almost but not always

- her flute of pink champagne

- the bubbly : 샴페인

p11

produced a shiny foil pack = a rubber

the fire was still burning blue hot = hottest

it's a challenge being 2.0. : version 2.0

A Different World : Where Are They Now? : TV program

birthday suit : naked

- shooter marble 구슬

profile : a side view of someone’s head

multilingual young