EBS 파워잉글리쉬 2014년 9월 2일 화요일 Arianna Huffington Speech - Part 1

Arianna Huffington Speech - Part 1

I remember, for example, in my 20s, when I fell in love with a man whom I had not met. I fell in love with his writing. His name was Bernard Levin, and he was writing for the London Times. I would literally cut out his columns, underline them, and learn them by heart. When I finally met him, I was petrified and tongue-tied. Nevertheless, he invited me to dinner, and I prepped for the date not by going to the hair dresser but by reading everything he was writing. I read every detail about Northern Ireland. Of course, Northern Ireland never came up on the date… and we ended up being together for seven years. Then I hit 30 and I desperately wanted to have children. He wanted to have cats. So I did something that I was terrified to do: I left the man I deeply loved. And basically everything that's happened in my life—my children, my books, The Huffington Post, the fact that I'm here speaking in front of you today—is because a man wouldn't marry me.

Remember that, okay? In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right. Or as Max Teicher, who is graduating today, put it to me last night: he was bumped from an art class he really wanted to be in because there were already too many kids enrolled, but because of that he ended up in a philosophy class he really loved. So, to quote Max, “by getting unlucky, I actually got lucky. ”  

[Vocab Tips]

* petrified - 겁에 질린

* basically - 기본적으로

* desperately - 몹시

* philosophy - 철학

[Expression of the day]

I was petrified and tongue-tied.

저는 겁에 질리고 말문이 막혔습니다.

I was petrified and  speechless.

I was petrified and at a loss for words.

I was petrified and ​​dumbstruck.