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“If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do—oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”

At 7 o’clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.

("짐이 날 보자마자 기절초풍하지만 않으면," 델라는 혼잣말을 뇌었다. "나보고 코니 아일랜드 코러스 걸 같다고 그러겠지. 하지만 내가 뭘 어떻게 하겠어. 하! 1달러 87센트 가지고 뭘 어떻게 하겠어?"

7시 정각에 커피가 준비되었고, 프라이팬이 갈비를 요리할 수 있게 달구어져 스토브 위에 올랐다.)

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“If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes a second look at me,

("만약 짐이 보자마자 기절초풍하지만 않으면" 그녀는 혼잣말을 했다.)

✔before he takes a second look: 두 번째 보기 전에. 즉, 보자마자.

he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl.

("나보고 코니 아일랜드 코러스 걸 같다고 말하겠지.")

✔Coney Island: 당시 유명했던 놀이공원 이름. 이곳의 코러스 걸은 머리를 짧게 깎았다고 합니다.

But what could I do—

("하지만 내가 뭘 할 수 있었겠어-")

oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”

("하! 1달러 87센트로 뭘 할 수 있었겠어?")

At 7 o’clock the coffee was made

(7시 정각에 커피가 준비되었고)

and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove

(프라이팬이 뒤쪽 가스불 위에 올랐다.)

✔the back of the stove: 4구 가스렌지의 뒤쪽.

hot and ready to cook the chops.

(달구어져서 갈비를 요리할 준비가 된 채.)

✔chops: 두껍게 썬 돼지갈비 요리. 갈비가 붙어 있습니다.

“If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do—oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”

At 7 o’clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.

("짐이 날 보자마자 기절초풍하지만 않으면," 델라는 혼잣말을 뇌었다. "나보고 코니 아일랜드 코러스 걸 같다고 그러겠지. 하지만 내가 뭘 어떻게 하겠어. 하! 1달러 87센트 가지고 뭘 어떻게 하겠어?"

7시 정각에 커피가 준비되었고, 프라이팬이 갈비를 요리할 수 있게 달구어져 스토브 위에 올랐다.)

- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.

(40분도 채 안 되어 델라의 머리는 작고 짧은 곱슬머리로 덮였고, 이로 인해 그녀는 마치 개구쟁이 소년처럼 보였다. 델라는 거울 속에 비친 자신의 모습을 오랫동안, 세심하게, 비판적으로 바라보았다.)

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Within forty minutes

(40분 안에)

her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls

(그녀의 머리는 작고 짧은 곱슬머리로 덮였다.)

✔close: 머리카락이나 잔디가 짧게 깎인.

✔close-lying curls: 짧은 곱슬머리. 머리에 달라붙은 곱슬머리.

that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy.

(그녀의 모습을 참으로 개구쟁이 소년처럼 보이게 만든)

✔truant: 꾀부리는.

She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.

(그녀는 거울 속에 비친 자신의 모습을 오래, 세심하게, 그리고 비판적으로 바라보았다.)

✔reflection: 거울에 비친 모습.

✔critically: 비판적으로

Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically.

(40분도 채 안 되어 델라의 머리는 작고 짧은 곱슬머리로 덮였고, 이로 인해 그녀는 마치 개구쟁이 소년처럼 보였다. 델라는 거울 속에 비친 자신의 모습을 오랫동안, 세심하게, 비판적으로 바라보았다.)

- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.

(델라가 집에 도착했을 때, 도취감은 어느 정도 사라지고 대신 신중함과 분별이 마음속에 자리잡았다. 그녀는 컬링 아이언을 꺼내 가스불을 붙이고, 사랑에 더해진 관대함이 만들어 낸 이 참화를 손보는 작업에 돌입했다. 이런 일은 언제나 힘든 일이며, 엄청난 일이다.)

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When Della reached home

(델라가 집에 도착했을 때)

her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason.

(그녀의 도취감은 신중함과 합리성에 약간 자리를 내 주었다.)

✔intoxication: 도취감. 열광. 중독.

✔prudence: 신중함. 침착함.

✔reason: 합리성. 분별성.

She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas

(그녀는 컬링 아이언을 꺼내 가스불을 켜고)

✔curling iron: 고데기.

and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love.

(사랑에 더해진 관대함이 만들어 낸 그 참화를 손보는 작업에 돌입했다)

✔go to work: 작업에 돌입하다

✔work [-ing]: [-ing]하는 작업. 보통 work on [-ing]를 많이 씁니다.

✔repair: 수리하다. 수선하다.

✔ravage: 파괴 행위.

✔the ravages: 파괴된 자리. 참화.

✔generosity: 관대함. 너그러움.

Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.

(이런 일은 언제나 엄청난 일이다. 친구들이여, 매머드처럼 거대한 일이다.)

✔tremendous: 엄청난. 거대한.

✔mammoth: 매머드. 거대한. (mammoth라는 단어가 '거대하다'라는 의미로 쓰이게 된 것은 대략 1800년대 초반부터라고 합니다.)

When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.

(델라가 집에 도착했을 때, 도취감은 어느 정도 사라지고 대신 신중함과 분별이 마음속에 자리잡았다. 그녀는 컬링 아이언을 꺼내 가스불을 붙이고, 사랑에 더해진 관대함이 만들어 낸 이 참화를 손보는 작업에 돌입했다. 이런 일은 언제나 힘든 일이며, 엄청난 일이다.)

- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

ONE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name “Mr. James Dillingham Young.”

The “Dillingham” had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called “Jim” and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.

Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.

There was a pier glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.

Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.

Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. The other was Della’s hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty’s jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.

So now Della’s beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.

On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.

Where she stopped the sign read: “Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds.” One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the “Sofronie.”

“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della.

“I buy hair,” said Madame. “Take yer hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it.”

Down rippled the brown cascade.

“Twenty dollars,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.

“Give it to me quick,” said Della.

Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.

She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim’s. It was like him. Quietness and value—the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

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Where she stopped the sign read: “Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds.” One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the “Sofronie.”

“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della.

“I buy hair,” said Madame. “Take yer hat off and let’s have a sight at the looks of it.”

Down rippled the brown cascade.

“Twenty dollars,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.

“Give it to me quick,” said Della.

Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.

She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim’s. It was like him. Quietness and value—the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

(그들은 시곗줄 값으로 21달러를 가져갔고, 델라는 87센트를 들고 서둘러 집으로 돌아왔다. 이제 이 시곗줄을 달면 짐은 누구와 함께 있더라도 마음 놓고 시간을 궁금해 할 수 있을 것이다. 시계가 훌륭했던 만큼, 체인 대신 사용했던 낡은 가죽끈 때문에 짐은 가끔 남의 눈을 피해 시계를 보곤 했었다.)

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Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it,

(그들은 시곗줄 값으로 델라에게서 21달러를 가져갔고)

and she hurried home with the 87 cents.

(그녀는 87센트를 들고 서둘러 집에 돌아왔다.)

With that chain on his watch

(시계에 이 체인을 달면)

Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company.

(짐은 누구와 함께 있더라도 마음 놓고 시간에 대해 궁금해 할 수 있을 것이다.)

✔properly: 적절히

✔anxious about: ...에 대해 걱정하다

✔in any company: 누구와 함께하더라도

Grand as the watch was,

(시계가 대단히 훌륭했던 것만큼)

he sometimes looked at it on the sly

(가끔 짐은 남몰래 시계를 훔쳐보곤 했다)

✔on the sly: 남몰래

on account of the old leather strap

(낡은 가죽끈 때문에)

✔on account of: ... 때문에

that he used in place of a chain.

(체인 대신에 사용했던)

✔in place of: ... 대신에

Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

(그들은 시곗줄 값으로 21달러를 가져갔고, 델라는 87센트를 들고 서둘러 집으로 돌아왔다. 이제 이 시곗줄을 달면 짐은 누구와 함께 있더라도 마음 놓고 시간을 궁금해 할 수 있을 것이다. 시계가 훌륭했던 만큼, 체인 대신 사용했던 낡은 가죽끈 때문에 짐은 가끔 남의 눈을 피해 시계를 보곤 했었다.)

- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry