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2016년 10월 20일 목요일

PE 10/11 Robert De Niro - NYU Tisch School of the Arts Commencement Speech


Now that you’ve made your choice, or rather, succumbed to it, your path is clear.
* succumb to: to stop resisting a stronger force; yield; die
ex> He succumbed to pneumonia two weeks later.
ex> By 11 o'clock I had succumbed to temptation and ate the chips.

You have to keep working; it’s that simple. You got through TISCH, that’s a big deal, or to put it another way, you got through TISCH, big deal.
* get through something: to endure to the end of a difficult task or period
ex> I didn’t get high grades in college, but I got through it.

* be a big deal: to be important or significant
ex> The award Mom has been nominated for is a big deal in her industry.

* Big deal. : That is unimpressive or unimportant.
ex> You bought a second-hand washing machine? Big deal.

On this day of triumphantly graduating a new door is opening for you. A door to a lifetime of rejection. It’s inevitable. It’s what graduates call the “the real world.”
* inevitable: unavoidable; certain to happen
ex> Cooler weather is inevitable, so we should be prepared.
* the real world: practical, day-to-day reality
ex> Your business idea would never work in the real world.

@ Well, it’s a start.  그래도 시작은 한 겁니다.
beginning. /first step. /jumping-off point.

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