[오늘의 한문장] To Kill a Mockingbird

At a safe distance he called, "He’s nothin’ but a nigger-lover!" - P105

You’ve perpetrated a near lib...

You’ve perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. - P86

Soft taffeta-like sounds and muffled scurrying sounds filled me with helpless dread. - P88

Miss Maudie’s tin roof quelled the flames. Roaring, the house collapsed; fire gushed everywhere, followed by a flurry of blankets from men on top of the adjacent houses, beating out sparks and burning chunks of wood. - P90

A network of tiny lines criss-crossed her palms, brown with dirt and dried blood. - P94

I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be. - P95

"The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again." - P96

"Because I could never ask you to mind me again. Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning." - P96

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said. - P96

"This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home." - P97

Jem, educated on a half-Decim...

Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books. As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me. - P14

Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk. Someone inside the house was laughing. - P54

How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible. - P59

There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. - P59

The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dogs. - P74

[오늘의 한문장] To Kill a Mockingbird

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. - P44

˝Hush your mouth! Don’t matte...

"Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em—if you can’t act fit to eat at the table you can just set here and eat in the kitchen!" - P34

"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—" "Sir?" "—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." - P40