EBSe 생활영어 시즌4 - 609

Unit 609. Commercials were part of the TV experience.

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Now with being able to watch TV online, it's actually really easy.

English On The Go

Television has changed so much in the last few years.

I was just thinking about this the other day, actually, because you can watch TV online now.

So there are websites where, that you can use to watch television shows and movies.

And I was thinking, when I was younger and we had to watch everything just on TV and they'd have commercial breaks.

And I remember we'd be watching a TV series that we'd …

it's like a new episode, haven't seen it yet, waiting all week for it to come out.

Finally it's on TV. Sitting down watching it with my sister.

And then the ad break comes on and then we want to, like, run to the bathroom,

run and get snacks, do everything you want to do.

And you're just trying to get back in time before the series starts back, because you don't want to miss anything.

And it was always this really, like, intense race of “Are you going to make it back before the commercial finishes?”

And I was just, like, we don't have that anymore now

because you can watch TV online and pause it whenever you want to go do anything.

And I kind of miss that.

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commercial 상업적인, 광고

break 휴식 시간

ad  광고 advertisement

intense 치열한, 강도 높은

 

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* the other ~  :  얼마 전의 ~

1) 저는 며칠 전에 감기에 걸렸어요.

I caught a cold the other day.

2) 몇 주 전에 우리는 점심을 같이 먹었어요.

The other week we had lunch together.

* make it ~ before ~  :  ~전에 도착하다

1) 그녀는 비가 오기 전에 집에 도착할 거예요.

She'll make it home before it rains.

2) 저는 기차가 떠나기 전에 역에 도착했어요.

I made it to the station before the train left.

 

< 알쏭달쏭 한마디 >

그 광고가 머릿속에서 맴돌아요.

That ad is stuck in my head.