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2013년 11월 22일 금요일

PE 11/21 The Gullah People

That's impressive considering how long they have been mixed into the American melting pot.
* melting pot: a place with a diverse mix of people from various races, cultures, etc.
ex> Because so many people who emigrated to the United States came through New York, it was considered American's melting pot.

It's a dark chapter in this country's history, but I guess every nation has some skeletons in the closet.
* dark chapter: a period in a person's life or civilization's existence in which very bad things happened
ex> Tom's time in a Mexican prison was a dark chapter in his life he would like to forget.
* skeletons in one's closet: ashamed or embarrassed about certain parts of one's history
ex> Her affair with her college professor was just another skeleton in her closet that her boyfriend didn't need to know.

Their "owners" fled the islands right after war broke out.
* break out: to begin suddenly; appear seemingly out of nowhere
ex> Two days before her wedding, Julia's face broke out with pimples.
ex> People fled to the south when the Korean War broke out.

Well, "all's well that ends well," I guess.
* all's well that ends well: an event that has a good ending is good even if some things went wrong along the way.
ex> Even though it took six years to get the economy on the right path, all's well that ends well.
ex> The groom was late for the wedding, but everything worked out all right. All's well that ends well.




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