반응형 전체 글114 before he knew it 표현 In the beginning, LeMay’s headquarters ran the entire project, and it soon became so complicated he had more than the Russians with whom to deal. Before he knew it he found himself in the diplomacy business, for which he had considered himself so ill suited. (266) LeMay가 자신이 러시아 말고 처리해야할 많은 것들이 있다는 걸 알게 되었다. ‘그도 모르는 새에’ 그 자신이 외교 문제에 놓여 있다는 걸 알게 되었고, 그 외교 문제란 그 자신이 생각하기에 너무 자신이 잘 못하는 분야였다. - .. 2025. 10. 31. be not eager to~의 해석 The French, so recently overrun by the Germans, were not eager to be overrun by the Russians. (266) - overrun: 군대가 점령하다, 휩쓸다. 또는 어떤 세력에게 장악되다, 지배당하다. - 최근 독일에 의해 점령되었던 프랑스인들은 러시아에 의해 정말 점령당하고 싶지 않았다. - were not eager to~: ~하기 원치 않았다, 내키지 않았다. 2025. 10. 31. Curtis LeMay의 대학생활과 입대 *LeMay, Ohio State에서 4학년 말이 되어갈 때, Army Air Corps에 들어가는 데에 문제가 있다는 걸 알게 됨. 처음 두 해 동안 일하느라 아침 수업을 듣지 못했는데, 그때 못들은 것 중 an engineering course entitled Railroad Curves. 거의 깨어 있지 못했던… 여하간 그래서 졸업을 위해 필요한 학점중 15학점이 부족했다. He found those curves so soporific he flunked the course two semesters in a row.- soporific: 최면성의 He was an honor graduate in ROTC. And sometimes honor graduates could win regular Army.. 2025. 10. 20. Curtis LeMay의 유년 시절 Who was this suddenly famous but still perplexing and unexplained war hero whose fierce, unsmiling, cigar-speared face had begun appearing in all the newspapers and on the covers of magazines? - cigar-speared face에서 ‘speared’는 말 그대로 ‘창으로 꿰뚫린, 찔린’이라는 의미. 시가가 얼굴에 늘 붙어 있었음을 비유적으로 표현한 것. Platoon of men: platoon은 군대 조직 중 보통 2개 정도의 squad, section으로 구성된 수준을 말함. He had never been in any way a part of th.. 2025. 10. 20. 르메이, 핵폭탄, 일본의 항복 선언, 종전 For their charts and drawings they used the only thing they had on Guam, a two-foot-wide roll of butcher’s paper on a frame. Though their presentation seemed smooth enough, LeMay realized, when he looked around at General Marshall, that they had come on a bootless errand. The nation’s most powerful military man was asleep. (175)- Bootless = useless 워싱턴에서 떠나기 전에, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves를 만났음. .. 2025. 8. 27. 르메이의 일본 본토 지역폭격 [chapter 10][chapter 11]News of the unprecedented success of the Tokyo mission buoyed the spirits of Hap Arnold, […]- buoy: 기분을 좋게 하다 [a letter from Hap to Curtis] “. . . A study of the Tokyo attack of March 10 and knowledge of the fact that by July 1 you will have nearly a thousand B-29s under your control, leads one to conclusions which are impressive even to old hands at bombardment operation.. 2025. 8. 27. 르메이, 해군과 도쿄 공격에 협력, B-29 공군의 위기 [LeMay는 쓸모 있어 보이는 의견은 시도해보이는 것을 좋아함. 그게 누가 제안했든, 무엇이든.] 그 일화:One day a major in the aircraft maintenance section of the Twentieth Air Force went to headquarters to tell a superior officer he had figured out a better procedure of some kind.“I was standing with my back to the door,” ha later recalled, “all wound up and going strong. I noticed that the man I was talking to sort of stiffened. I look.. 2025. 8. 22. LeMay: 제트 기류 및 날씨 문제를 겪음 McKelway, who attended a farewell ceremony for Hansell, his departing boss, spent much of his time in bemused observation of LeMay, his new boss. “It was now known whether LeMay would be there in time for the ceremony, but he was. I wanted a photograph of LeMay shaking hands with Hansell and I so informed LeMay. [[He]] seemed surprised that anybody would want such a thing. He had kept in the bac.. 2025. 8. 22. 이전 1 2 3 4 ··· 15 다음 반응형