왜 영어공부는 재미나면 안될까? 그저 영어책을 만화책처럼, 보고, 읽고, 웃고, 생각하면 안될까? 그렇게 한바탕 웃고 나면 잘 기억되는 영어는 없을까? 이 불가능해 보이는 도전에 리스코리아 편집진 모두가 팔을 걷어 붙였습니다. 그리고 그동안 발간된 책에 실렸던 그림들과 재미있는 대화들을 끄집어 내어 또 다른 책으로 묶었습니다. 추후에는 거기에다 더 재미있고 명쾌한 설명까지 덧붙일 예정입니다. 본 책 “Cartoon English” 에 실려 있는 영어는 단순히 재미로만 끝나지 않습니다. 아마 독자 여러분들은 아름답고 재미있지만, 정말 미국적인 정확한 영어를 경험하게 될 것입니다. 부디 독자 여러분들의 한바탕 웃음이 영어 실력의 향상으로 이어지기를 기대합니다.
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Introduction
Contents
1 What Is the Unifying Principle of Life?
2 Who Wins the Race?
3 Is Life Worth Living?
4 When Bad Habits Conflict
5 When Will the Storm Blow Over?
6 What Are the Proper Questions?
7 Accidents Do Happen
8 Acceptance versus Faultfinding
9 Which Do You Prefer, Darkness or Light?
10 When Animal Rights Get Personal
11 Think before You Act
12 A Clash of Musical Styles
13 Be Thankful for What You Have
14 Dancing to Dad’s Philosophy
15 What Happens When You Drop the Ball?
16 Fired by One’s Own Father
17 Be Satisfied with Yourself First
18 Relax and Enjoy the Rat Race
19 Helping the Down-and-Out?
20 Where Is Your Heart?
21 Finding Happiness with Simple Pleasures
22 When Stranded on a Desert Isle
23 Where a Dog’s Happiness Lies
24 It Is More Blessed to Give Than to Receive
25 Appreciating What Others Do
26 Dreaming of the Good Old Days
27 Competing with the Opposite Sex
28 The Case of the Agreeable Couple
29 A Shocking Display of Polite Behavior
30 The Groom with Second Thoughts
31 There’s Always Room for More Praise
32 Adventures of the Courageous Wife
33 Making Amends Is Expensive
34 When Wealth Is Impressive
35 You Don’t Have to Understand Women
36 Different Perspectives on the Wedding Day
37 Contrasting Styles of Parenting
38 Don’t Discipline in Anger
39 Eliminating the Vicious Circle
40 Let Mom Do Her Job
41 When Parents Teach Kids to Drive
42 I Won’t Get Caught Again!
43 When Kids Grow Up
44 Striking Out versus Hitting a Home Run
45 Instilling Confidence in Kids
46 A Day of Fun or a Day of Discipline?
47 A Bully Meets His Match
48 Hypocrites in Uniform
49 I Believe I Can Fly
50 Half-Empty or Half-Full?
51 A Solution Leads to a New Problem
52 The End of the Male Gender?
53 Have Realistic Expectations
54 Girl Watching
55 Be Proactive to Solve a Problem
56 Must We Balance Optimism and Pessimism?
57 The Optimist and the Realist
58 Opening a Door for Opportunity
59 No Pain, No Gain
60 Having a Little Is Better Than Nothing
61 Why Are We Here?
62 Overwhelmed by Mass Media
63 The End of Print Media?
64 Save Your Life, Don’t Take It!
65 Riding the Bus of Life
66 Another Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
67 How Much Weight Is Too Much?
68 On One’s Way to Rehabilitation
69 Recurring Tabloid Themes
70 It’s Never Too Early to Prepare for Retirement
71 The Astounding Power of Commercials
72 Reporters Thrive on Disasters
73 When Conscience Fails
74 Time for a True Confession
75 How Strict Is Your Conscience?
76 Conscience and a Good Night’s Sleep
77 What Part of NO Do You Not Understand?
78 Who’s Changed for the Better?
79 What Is the Best Religion?
80 When a Conscience Interferes with Life
81 When Things Don’t Work Out
82 Improving One’s Conscience?
83 Doing What Others Do
84 When a Mother-in-Law Acts as a Conscience
85 Conflicting Feelings about the Temperature
86 When Rescue Animals Take Over
87 A Soldier’s Turmoil
88 Replacing One Bad Habit with Another
89 Attitudes of the New Rich
90 Hypocrite Caught Red-Handed
91 Turning Vices into Virtues
92 Changing Your Appearance to Change Your Life
93 The Most Valuable Thing in Life
94 The Compassionless Contract
95 Boundless Parental Love
96 A Crooked Politician and His Accomplices
97 In God’s Hands
98 Up to Fate or in Our Hands?
99 Is Reincarnation Real?
100 A Generous Favor Goes Nowhere
101 A Deliberate Provocation
102 A Case of Indecent Exposure
103 Which Road Shall We Take?
104 Three Views on the Topic of Fate
105 Who Goes to Heaven?
106 Three Ways to Find Good Fortune
107 The Bandwagon Is Full
108 The Paradox of Health Insurance
109 When Religion and Science Cooperate
110 All about Designer Babies
111 Where Is the True Religion?
112 Married Clergy?
113 A Priest and a Scientist Talk about Life
114 The Bigmouthed Boss
115 When One Problem Leads to Another
116 The Materialistic Preacher
117 Religion and Science: A Necessary Union
118 Making Promises to God
119 Be Thankful for What You Have
120 All Paths Lead to God
121 How Is Government Like a Tree?
122 When Big Brother Takes Over
123 How Big Should Government Be?
124 The Myth of the Self-Made Man
125 Dealing with a Giant Government
126 Extreme Tax Collecting
127 Small Government versus Big Government
128 Two Types of Sausages: Conservative and Liberal
129 Just Print More Money!
130 The Case of the Patriotic Criminal
131 Don’t Tempt Fate!
132 Who’s Paying for the Air Conditioning?
133 The Difficulty of Predicting the Future
134 Nuclear Power Means Nuclear Waste
135 When Government and Business Join Hands
136 When Climate Changes before Our Eyes
137 Always Laugh at the Boss’s Jokes
138 Working versus Begging
139 A Device to End Gossiping?
140 We All Have Problems
141 All about Death and Taxes
142 Rights and Duties Go Together
143 Don’t Ask Why? Ask Why Not?
145 Doing Anything to Be Thin
146 How to Impress Women
147 Finding Real Beauty
148 Sharing the Workload
149 The Lamest Excuse Ever for DWI
150 You Can’t Always Look Young
151 Protecting One’s Beauty
152 Good Looks versus a Warm Heart
153 Outer Beauty versus Inner Beauty
154 The Narcissistic Mother and Child
155 Plastic Surgery for Free?
156 What Makes a Person Beautiful?
157 The Case of the Friendly Alien
158 No Need for Aliens to Destroy Earth
159 Leaving versus Staying
160 Women Astronauts: Better at Communicating?
161 When Fashion Dominates the Mind
162 When Aliens and Humans Cooperate
163 Focus on Maintaining the Earth
164 Insignificant or All-Powerful?
165 Why the Universe Keeps Expanding
166 Alone in the Universe?
167 Life on Other Planets?
168 Gravity Is All Around Us
169 The Ideal Global Language
170 The Need to Know English Culture
171 The Future Lingua Franca?
172 Which Is Better, a Comma or a Coma?
173 Is Coffee Compatibility Necessary?
174 Language for Singing, Language for Swearing
175 Does No Always Mean No?
176 Love and Faithfulness: Always the Same?
177 A Clear Case of Conflict of Interest
178 Real Promises, Fake Promises
179 Couples and Their Finances
180 Policing the Use of Language
