영어 초급자 stand 활용법 3개 표현에 대해서 알아 봅니다. 영어를 공부하는 초중급자가 꼭 알아야 할 stand의 활용법이니 잘 배워봅니다.
1. I can’t stand ~. ~를 못 참겠어 / (견디기 힘들정도로) 정말 싫어.
2. My offer still stands. 아직 내 제안은 유효해.
– I’d love to join you for a drink if the invitation still stands.
3: Time stands still. 시간이 멈춰버린 것 같아.
1. stand (특히 부정문에 쓰여서 싫어함을 강조) 참다, 견디다
-Collins 사전: If you cannot stand something, you cannot bear it or tolerate it.
-Collins 사전: If you cannot stand someone or something, you dislike them very strongly.
Come on, hurry.
I can’t stand the smell.
<고수의 향을 못 참을 정도로 안 좋아함>
I can’t stand cilantro.
A: Why did you leave in the middle of the meeting?
B: I just couldn’t stand his condescending tone.
-캠브릿지 사전 condescending: treating someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them
*condescending 거들먹거리는, 잘난체하는
I didn’t mean to be condescending.
She can’t stand Tennessee.
I can’t stand her.
I can’t stand this new system. I can’t find anything.
2. stand (이미 했던 제안, 결정 등이 아직도) 유효하다/변함없다.
-Collins 사전: If a decision, law, or offer stands, it still exist and has not been changed or cancelled.
My offer still stands.
*on the table (상정이되어 있는 것처럼) 논의, 고려대상인
-캠브릿지 사전: being discussed or considered
That offer is still on the table.
Is that offer still on the table? 그 제안 아직도 유효해?
Everything is on the table at this point. 모든 가능성을 다 열어두고 있다.
*off the table 논외/고려 대상이 아냐
-macmillan 사전: If a proposal or offer is off the table, it is no longer officially available or is not being considered.
Let’s take that off the table for now.
I’d love to join you for a drink if the invitation still stands.
My former comment still stands.
Well, my former comment still stands.
Now, that position still stands.
A: Well, my former comment still stands.
B: Then let’s just agree to disagree.
*~still stands ~는 아직 유효해/여전히 변함 없어.
3. Time stands still 시간이 멈춰버린 것 같아.
-캠브릿지 사전: When time stands still, everything around you seems to stop.
*still 가만히 있는, 정지한
-캠브릿지 사전: staying in the same position: not moving.
Now, stay still. 움직이지 마세요.
A: You’ve been working for eight hours straight.
B: I know, I feel like time stands still when I’m really focused on work.
I’m a little fuzzy.
I’ve been working 72 hours straight.
I’m working on a design, time stands still.
A: How was the seminar?
B: It was so boring that I felt as if time stood still.
It’s just that moment where time stands still.
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