단어

captivity : 감금 listless : 힘없는 pace up and down : 서성거리다 anthropoid : 유인원 reverence : 숭배 courtship : 교제, 구애 tedium : 지루함 philanthropist : 자선가 bestow : 부여하다 fructify : 열매를 맺다 stultifying : 멍청하게 만드는 enliven : 더 재미있게 만들다 giaety : 흥겨움 unfettered : 제한받지 않는 titillations : 간질임

문장

Possibly anthropoid apes may resemble us in this respect, as in so many others, but having never lived with them I have not had the opportunity to make the experiment.

유인원들이 많은 방면에서 우리를 닮은 것 처럼, 이러한 부분에서도 우리를 닮았을 수 있다.

Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another.

하루하루를 구별할 수 있게 해 줄 그런 사건

In like manner no one has ever yawned during his maiden speech in the House of Lords, with the exception of the late Duke of Devonshire, who was reverenced by their Lordships in consequence.

데본셔 공작을 제외하고 누구도 첫 연설중에 하품을 하지 않았는데, 데본셔 공작은 하품을 했고 그 결과로 존경을 받았다.

They were not allowed to read, or to leave the room, because the theory was that at that period their father conversed with them, which must be a pleasure to all concerned.

It must have been boredom as much as anything that led to the practice of witch-hunts as the sole sport by which winter evenings could be enlivened.