어쩌다 보니 그렇게 된 거야.

2023. 11. 1. 09:05영어공부

A: Next week is my tenth anniversary at my job.
B: That’s an impressive accomplishment. Congratulations.
A: It wasn’t my long-term plan. 어쩌다 보니 그렇게 된 거야.
B: Some call it “destiny”. I call it “paying the bills”.

A: 다음 주면 지금 직장에 다닌지 10년째 되는 거야.
B: 인상적인 성과네. 축하한다.
A: 장기 계획을 세웠던 건 아니고, It just sort of happened.
B: 그걸 “운명”이라고도 하지. 난 “카드 값 내기”라고 하고.

[Additional expressions]
*Next week is my tenth anniversary at my job.
– Come next week, it will my tenth year where I’m working.
*That’s an impressive accomplishment.
– That’s pretty remarkable. / That’s a feat you can be proud of.
*Congratulations.
– Nicely done! / Well done! / Excellent! / Very cool!
*It wasn’t my long-term plan.
– That’s not what I originally planned. / I didn’t plan for things to go that way.
*It just sort of happened.
– The time just kind of passed by. / Time went by and that’s how it turned out.
*Some call it “destiny”.
– Some people might say it was your destiny. / To some folks, that’s “destiny”.
*I call it “paying the bills”.
– I think of it just as a way to survive. / I did it so that I could pay my bills.

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