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*What happened(우연히 일어나다) was that Lily came to school with head lice

 

*What really stinks is when the school looks at the weather forecast and decides that the next day is gonna be a half day.

 

Everything takes half the time. That goes for detention too.

 

All the bullies in our school know that if they do something bad the day before a half day, they’ll only get half the punishment.

 

The next day, but then it snowed three inches.

 

I mostly remembered to keep that thing tucked(집어 넣어진) in my coat pocket on the walk to school

 

Now that the girls are in power, they’re not messing(fooling)(빈둥대다) around.

 

These new safety patrols are sticklers(까다로운 사람) for the rules.

 

I almost busted a kneecap(무릎 뼈를 부수다) on a fire hydrant(소화전) that was buried in a snowdrift(날려 쌓인 눈)

 

If you tell on(고자질하다) a kid for doing something wrong, then everyone says you’re a tattletale.

 

Snitching(고자질하다) is really frowned on in my school.

 

You can make money off(돈 좀 벌다) of being a tattletale(고자질쟁이).

 

He paired each kid up with their correct socks.(짝을 맞추다)

 

Me and Rowley didn’t have Gramma’s house to use as a pit stop(정차).

 

If they drop their bags off at their houses, that counts as being home.

 

*That meant we had a whole day of school with NO HEAT

 

She had a space heater cranked up(소리를 높이다) to the MAX

 

*It took a minute for the rest of us to figure out what Becky’s game was.

 

Most of us were freezing our butts off(너무 추워서 엉덩이가 떨어질 것 같다)

 

Kids made a run on the vending machines(자동판매기) in the hallways(hall)

 

At that point, people were trying to get their hands on anything that was edible.

 

There were any safety patrols this far out – 있다는 뜻일까 없다는 뜻일까

 

Those idiots lied about me throwing the snowball on the bus.

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Or if it was the other way around. - 또 다른 방법이 있다면

 

*I figured we’d stay in there just long enough for the Whirley street kids to leave, because we didn’t want to be in there any longer than we had to

 

*United airline says it’ll never again use police to forcibly remove(끌어내다) passengers from over-full flight.

 

*It’s how to entice people to give up(양보하다) their seats voluntarily.

 

*They think that the industry could be doing much better job(지금보다 훨씬 잘해야지).

 

*But it’s actually also a game if you look at it that way(어떤 측면에서 보면)

 

*It’s fair to say(이렇게 해도 틀리지 않을 겁니다) that United airlines did not play this game well.

 

I want that coffee mug. How much will you sell it to me for?

 

How much they would want in exchange(in return)

 

An analyst we talked to(인터뷰하다) said at least one airline is trying this with text messages.

 

He says airlines could get a lot more passengers in on(흐름에 동참하다) the game and willing to play if they are started with the high number, and work their way down(차근차근) from there.(work their way up – 차근차근 밟아 올라가다)

 

He pushed his way through the crowd to get her – 밀어가며 자신의 길을 만들어간다.

They hacked their way out of the bushes – 헤쳐 나가며 자신의 길을 만들어간다.

He bribed his way up the social ladder - (비유적으로) 뇌물 먹이면서 자신의 길을 만들어간다.