You Are Here

by David Nicholls

Canal Street in New York

jeering at

getting in shape

I lost the thread

doubled over.

double over (갑자기 통증이 일거나 웃음이 터져 나와) 몸을 웅크리다[웅크리게 만들다]

it was important not to mock things that others enjoy.

indignantly,

fumble the timing.

타이밍이 어색했다. ... fumble 무엇을 찾느라 어설프게 더듬거리다, 말을 더듬거리다

a real petrol-head,

a public-transport-head.

South Lambeth Road,

breathlessness

she threw off her rucksack and wiped the vinaigrette from her eyes.

the air-punch moment

looked dutifully at the panorama.

a patched green plain unfurled towards the sea,

Scotland

Solway Firth.’

Isle o...

the Lumps,

snuck up.

sneak up (on something/somebody) (~에게) 살금살금[몰래] 다가가다

she saw the other man flinch.

Gravel Boy,

reverently

reverently 경건[겸손]하게

c...

cairn (돌을 쌓아 만든) 이정표, 돌무덤

he smiled at the yelps and groans

beck

sickle-shaped,

russet b...

The path was w...

reed bu...

fli...

skimmed s...

a treacherous court.

Since then, Anthony had watched him go through break-up and breakdown, had even visited him in hospital, and Michael wondered how that changed things, to see an adult in the aftermath of a catastrophe, stripped of the illusion of authority and control.

Best let the bunting go,

fared as a father.

scrupulously

motility.

‘broodiness’?

frivolous,

touching effusiveness

Regency novel,

Ennerdale Bridge!’

typed in the air.

pebble fetish.’

geology.’

cairn,

River Ehen,’

is that still a thing?