[Early Reader] Horrid Henry’s Christmas presents

영국식 표현이 많고, 어휘도 어려운 것들이 있어서 쉽지 많은 않다. 그러나 표현이 너무도 익살스럽고 재미있어 독자를 몰입시키는 힘이 있다. 재미있는 책을 찾는 사람들에게 꼭 추천하고 싶은 책이다. (체감 난이도는 reading level: 2점대 후반)

표현

Horrid Henry sat by the Christmas tree and stuffed himself full of the special sweets he’d nicked from the special Christmas Day stash when Mum and Dad weren’t looking.

*stuff oneself: 실컷먹다

*nick 훔치다. =steal

*stash: 숨겨둔 장소

 

Horrid Henry was feeling delighted with himself and with the world.

 

Mum dashed into the sitting room, wearing a flour-covered apron and looking frantic.

* sitting room: 영국식 영어에서의 거실

* frantic: 걱정 때문에 엄청난 감정의 통제를 거의 잃은

 

She held out a cardboard box brimming with tinsel and gold and silver and blue baubles.

* brimming with ~으로 가득찬

* tinsel: 반짝거리는 가짜 금속실

* bauble: (영국) Christmas tree에 다는 공 모양의 장식

“Tough,” said Henry, draping Peter in tinsel.

*drape: 천 등으로 감싸다.

 

“Henry’s hogging all the decorations. And he’s putting tinsel on me.”

*hog: 독차지 하다.

 

“Don’t put it there,” said Henry, yanking it off. 홱 잡아당기다.

“Mum! He’s wrecking my design” screeched Henry.

* wreck 망가뜨리다

 

Whose turn is it to put the fairy on top?

*누가 ~할 차례지?

 

“Why can’t we do what I want to do? I never get to have what I want.”

*get to ~에 이르다. 도달하다.

*get to have 누리다(?)

*whimper: 흐느껴 울다.

“I’ve had enough of this,”

“Have you finished wrapping your Christmas presents?”

 

The moment he’d been dreading for weeks had arrived.

*dread 두려워하다.

 

Could he help it if the chocolates had called his name so loudly that he’d been forced to eat them all?

 

Surely it would have been very unkind to give her chocolate.

And eating chocolate would have just made Pimply Paul’s pimples worse.

*raid 습격

 

Horrid Henry sprang at Peter.

* spring at sb ~에게 달려들다. 

*gnash his teeth 이를 갈다.

 

Horrid Henry rummaged under his bed and found a recent copy.

*rummage 물건들을 이리저리 뒤척이며 어떤 것을 찾다.

 

Don’t be glum. 침울해 하지 마.

 

Horrid Henry nipped into the bathroom.

 

True, it had been used once or twice, but a bit of smoothing with his fingers would sort that out.

*sort sth out 해결하다

 

Henry had heard that artist got paid loads of cash just for stacking a few bricks or hurling paint at a white canvas. Being an artist sounded like a great job, since it left so much time for playing computer games.

*hurl 던지다.

*get paid 보수를 받다.