벼락부자(상놈), 신문 스크랩, 요강 영어로? (원서 읽으며 표현 찾기) (G. Orwell, p.52-56)

In particular, he everywhere takes for granted the superiority of a “gentleman” to a “bounder” and of a “good accent” to cockney

1. bounder: 벼락부자, 벼락부자가 된 상놈, 망나니

The special thing that Merrick could do, and which no one else seems to have done, is to reproduce the atmosphere of low-class theatrical life: the smell of greasepaint and fish and chips, the sordid rivalries, the comfortless Sunday journeys, the lugging of suitcases through the back streets of unfamiliar towns, the “professional” lodgings presided over by “Ma,” the poky bedrooms with the rickety wash-hand-stand and the grim white chamber-pot under the bed (does Merrick ever mention the chamber-pot? Probably not: one just seems to imagine it), and the trudging up and down the Strand on worn-out boot-soles, the agents’ offices where women in dyed frocks sit waiting their turn, the forlorn collection of press cuttings, the manager who bolts in the middle of the tour with all the takings.

2. Greasepaint: a waxy substance used by actors
3. Sordid: 천박한, 야비한, 더러운
- 단어 sordid의 느낌을 잘 설명해 주는 이미지. 정말 안 좋은 뉘앙스의 단어다.

4. Trudge: 터덜터덜 걷다
5. Lug: 무거운 것을 질질 끌어 나르다
6. poky: small
7. Chamber-pot: portable toilet, 우리말로 요강에 가깝다.

8. Rickety: shaky, unsteady, 특히 가구 등이 흔들거리는
9. Press cutting: 신문이나 잡지 등에서 잘라낸 조각들, 신문 스크랩을 위해 잘라낸 조각을 생각하면 이해하기 쉽다.
10. frock: 작업복, 드레스, 가운
11. Forlorn: unhappy, miserable, alone
12. Bolt: 걸쇠로 잠그다, 빗장을 잠그다

Door bolt

13. taking: 공연, 서비스 등을 제공하고 받은 돈