쉐도잉 연습: 我一直以為同事討厭我，直到她離職那天告訴我真相｜Learn English Through Story - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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The first time I met Claire, I was sure she didn't like me.
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She didn't say anything rude.
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That would have been easier.
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Instead, she did something much harder to understand.
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She was polite.
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Very polite, but never warm.
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On my first day, my manager introduced us.
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This is Emily.
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She'll be joining the project team.
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Claire looked up from her laptop.
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She smiled for maybe half a second.
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Nice to meet you.
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Then she looked back at her screen.
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That was it.
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I told myself not to overthink it.
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Maybe she was busy.
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Maybe she was shy.
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Maybe that was just her personality.
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But over the next few weeks, I started noticing things.
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When I made a joke in the break room, everyone laughed.
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Claire didn't.
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When I asked if she wanted to join us for lunch, she usually said, thanks, but I brought something.
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When I shared an idea in a meeting, she would sometimes pause before saying, I don't think that's going to work.
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She wasn't mean.
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She was just cold.
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And somehow, that felt worse.
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One afternoon, I gave my first big presentation to the team.
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I had spent three nights preparing for it.
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When I finished, my manager said, Great job, Emily.
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This is exactly what we needed.
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A few people nodded.
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Someone said, Nice work.
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I looked at Claire.
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She was staring at one of my slides.
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Then she said, You might want to double -check the numbers on page 12.
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My stomach dropped.
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I opened the slide.
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She was right.
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One number was wrong.
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It wasn't a huge mistake.
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But suddenly, that was the only thing I could think about.
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After the meeting, I heard two co -workers talking near the printer.
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One of them said, Claire catches everything.
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The other laughed.
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Yeah, nothing gets past her.
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I walked back to my desk, feeling stupid.
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Claire sat across from me.
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She didn't say anything.
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Neither did I.
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From that day on, I became nervous around her.
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Every time I sent an email, I checked it three times.
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Every time I spoke in a meeting, I wondered whether she was judging me.
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If she looked serious while I was talking, I assumed I had said something wrong.
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If she gave me a short answer, I assumed she was annoyed, and if she disagreed with me, I took it personally.
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The strange thing was, I didn't feel that way around anyone else.
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Only Claire.
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A few months later, we were put on the same project.
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When I saw our names together, I actually sighed.
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My co -worker Megan heard me.
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What?
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Nothing.
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She looked at the screen.
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Oh.
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Claire.
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I looked at her.
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So it's not just me, Megan laughed.
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What do you mean?
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I don't think she likes me.
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Megan raised an eyebrow.
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Did she say that?
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No. Did she do something?
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Not exactly, Megan smiled.
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Then maybe don't write the whole movie before you've seen the trailer.
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I laughed, but I didn't really listen.
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Working with Claire was exactly as uncomfortable as I expected.
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Her emails were short.
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Please revise this.
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Can you check the source?
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Let's discuss tomorrow.
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No smiley faces.
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No exclamation marks.
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No hope you're having a great day.
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Just information.
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One night around 6 .30, she sent me a message.
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Your section needs more detail.
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I stared at it.
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That was all she wrote.
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I was exhausted.
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And suddenly I was angry.
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I typed, I've already revised it twice.
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What exactly is missing?
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I almost added, if you don't like my work, you can just say that.
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But I didn't.
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A minute later, Claire applied, call.
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I didn't want to, but I clicked the button.
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Her face appeared on my screen.
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She looked tired too.
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She said, I think we're talking past each other.
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I waited.
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Then she shared her screen.
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For the next 20 minutes, she explained exactly what the client was asking for.
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And she was right.
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Again.
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At the end, I said, okay, I understand now.
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Claire nodded.
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Then she said something unexpected.
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Your main idea is good, I looked at her.
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What?
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The idea.
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She pointed at my document.
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It's good, I just think it needs more support.
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Oh, that tiny compliment stayed with me for the rest of the night.
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I hated that it mattered so much.
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Over the next year, our relationship stayed almost exactly the same professional useful distant we
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could work together we just couldn't seem to become friends then one morning i walked into the office
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and saw a card on the table near the kitchen it
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said good luck claire i stopped i picked it up inside
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were messages from half the team we'll miss you best of
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luck in the new role don't be a stranger i turned to megan claire's leaving.
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Megan looked surprised.
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You didn't know.
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No. Friday's her last day.
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I looked across the office.
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Claire was sitting at her desk like it was any other morning.
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For some reason, the news bothered me.
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I should have felt relieved.
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The person who made me nervous for two years was leaving.
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No more overthinking her emails.
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No more wondering what her expression meant.
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No more feeling like I was constantly being graded.
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But I wasn't relieved.
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I felt strange, almost disappointed.
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That afternoon, I signed the card.
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I wrote, good luck with your next chapter.
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Then I stared at the sentence.
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It sounded like something you'd write to someone you barely knew.
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Maybe that was exactly what we were.
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On Friday, the team had a small farewell lunch.
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There was pizza, cake, a few speeches.
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Our manager said, Claire has been one of the most reliable people on this team.
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Everyone nodded.
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I did too.
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Because whatever else I thought about her, that part was true.
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Claire thanked everyone.
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Then she looked around the room.
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For a second, her eyes stopped on me.
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Then she looked away.
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After lunch, people started leaving early.
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Around 4 .30, I was packing my bag when Claire walked over to my desk.
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Do you have a minute?
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My first thought was ridiculous.
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She's leaving in 30 minutes and I'm still somehow in trouble.
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I said, sure.
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She pointed toward an empty meeting room.
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Can we talk in there?
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That made me even more nervous.
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We sat down.
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Claire closed the door.
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Then she placed a small envelope on the table.
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This is for you.
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I looked at it.
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What is it?
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Nothing dramatic.
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I smiled.
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That sounds dramatic.
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For the first time in two years, Claire actually laughed, not politely, really laughed.
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Then she looked at me and said, I owe you an explanation.
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I felt my stomach tighten. About what?
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Claire looked down at her hands. About me.
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I didn't say anything.
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She took a breath.
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I know I've probably seemed cold to you.
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Probably?
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I almost laughed.
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Instead, I said, a little.
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She smiled.
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That's generous.
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Then she became serious again.
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I need you to know something.
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She looked directly at me.
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I never disliked you.
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I stared at her.
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I wasn't prepared for that sentence.
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She continued.
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Actually, it was almost the opposite.
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I didn't understand.
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Clara leaned back in her chair.
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When you joined the team, I had already been here for six years.
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I had applied for a promotion twice.
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I didn't get it.
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I was angry, mostly at myself.
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Then she looked at me.
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And then you arrived.
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I stayed quiet.
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You were new, but people listened to you.
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You were comfortable speaking in meetings.
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You asked questions I was afraid to ask.
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You connected with people quickly.
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And everyone seemed to like you.
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I almost interrupted her, because that was not how I remembered my first few months at all.
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I had felt nervous every day.
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I had gone home replaying conversations in my head.
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I had spent entire meetings afraid someone would realize I didn't belong there.
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Claire shook her head.
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See, I didn't know any of that, she continued.
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All I saw was someone doing things I wished I could do more easily, and I started comparing myself to you.
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There it was, the truth I had never imagined.
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Not dislike, comparison.
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Claire said, every time you did well, I felt worse about myself.
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She paused.
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And I'm not proud of that.
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I didn't know what to say.
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So you really were judging me?
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She gave a small smile.
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Sometimes I laughed.
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Great, but not in the way you thought.
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She looked embarrassed.
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I wasn't thinking Emily isn't good enough.
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I was thinking why can't I be more like Emily?
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That sentence hit me harder than I expected.
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For two years I had walked into meetings worried Claire thought I wasn't good enough.
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And across the table Claire had apparently been wondering the same thing about herself.
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I said, you know what's crazy what i was intimidated by you claire blinked by me yes why
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because you always knew the answer she laughed no i didn't
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you looked like you did well you looked confident i wasn't
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we both stared at each other then we started laughing two
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grown women sitting in a meeting room realizing we had spent
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two years being intimidated by each other claire wiped under one eye this is ridiculous us.
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Very.
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Then she became quiet again.
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There was another reason I kept my distance.
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I waited.
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I knew I was probably going to leave.
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She told me she had started looking for another job more than a year earlier.
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She hadn't told anyone except her manager.
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I didn't want to get too attached.
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I frowned.
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That's a terrible strategy.
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I know.
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You worked here for seven years.
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I know.
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You were already attached she smiled also true then she pushed
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the envelope toward me open it later i picked it up
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before we left the room i asked her something why tell
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me all of this now claire thought for a moment
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because i don't want you to remember me as someone who
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hated you i didn't answer immediately then i said i don't
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think i will anymore her eyes softened good at five o 'clock Claire picked up her box.
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People hugged her.
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I did too.
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It felt strange.
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But not uncomfortable.
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Right before she left, she said, Don't let them make you doubt yourself.
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I smiled.
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You either.
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She nodded.
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I'm working on it.
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Then she walked out.
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I opened the envelope after I got home.
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Inside was a small card.
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Claire had written, Emily, you were never the problem.
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I just didn't know how to deal with what you brought out in me.
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You reminded me of the person I wanted to become.
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I'm sorry if my insecurity ever made you feel small.
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I hope you never make yourself smaller just to make someone else comfortable.
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I read that last sentence three times.
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Then I thought about all the moments I had misunderstood.
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The short emails, the serious expressions, the corrections, the lunches she didn't join.
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Some of those things really were distance.
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Some of them probably were insecurity, and some of them were simply Claire being Claire, but I had taken every little piece and built one big story around it.
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She doesn't like me.
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Once I believed that story, everything became evidence.
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A short email meant she was annoyed.
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A correction meant she wanted to embarrass me.
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A serious face meant I had done something wrong.
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I had never asked.
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I had just decided.
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And Claire had done something similar.
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She saw my presentation, my jokes with coworkers, my ideas in meetings, and she built her own story.
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Emily is confident.
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Emily has everything figured out.
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Emily doesn't struggle the way I do.
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Neither story was true, or at least neither story was complete.
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That's something I thought about many times since Claire left.
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We spend so much time trying to understand what other people think of us, but most of the time we don't actually know.
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We see a face, a message, a silence, a tone of voice.
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Then our minds fill in the missing pieces.
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Sometimes we're right.
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Sometimes we're completely wrong.
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And And sometimes, the person we think is judging us is standing on the other side of the room judging themselves.
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That doesn't mean you should ignore bad behavior.
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If someone treats you badly, you have every right to protect yourself.
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But not every quiet person is angry, not every disagreement is personal, not every bit of distance means rejection, and not every cold -looking person feels cold inside.
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Sometimes, asking one honest question can save you months or even years of guessing.
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Claire and I probably won't become best friends.
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We don't need to.
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But we still text sometimes.
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A few months after she left, she sent me a picture from her new office.
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Under it, she wrote, I spoke in a meeting today without rehearsing the sentence ten times first.
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I laughed.
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Then I replied, Look at you.
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She sent back, still terrifying.
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I wrote, Do it anyway.
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A minute later, she replied, That's what I'm learning.
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Maybe that's what I learned too you never really know what battle someone is having with themselves.
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So don't automatically turn their silence into rejection.
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Don't turn their confidence into proof that your own isn't enough.
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And don't make yourself smaller because you imagine someone else wants you that way.
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Sometimes the truth is much simpler.
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Two people can be standing in the same room, each secretly wondering if the other one is better.
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If you enjoy stories about real life, real feelings, and natural English, subscribe to Fluent Trail English.
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There are more stories waiting for you.
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See you in the next story.
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실생활 시나리오: 직장에서의 복잡한 인간관계
이 비디오는 직장에서 동료와의 미묘한 관계를 다루고 있어 영어 학습자에게 매우 실용적입니다. 에밀리가 클레어에게 느끼는 차가운 태도에 대한 걱정, 팀 미팅에서의 피드백, 그 사이의 오해 등은 일상에서 흔히 겪을 수 있는 상황이죠. 이런 대화를 통해 영어로 감정을 표현하는 방법뿐만 아니라 직장에서의 커뮤니케이션 방식도 배울 수 있습니다.
외워두면 유용한 구문과 어휘 조합
- overthink it: "너무 생각하기 쉬워"라는 뜻으로, "Don't overthink it"처럼 사용해요. 스트레스 받을 때 자주 쓰이는 표현이에요.
- double-check the numbers: "숫자를 다시 확인하다"는 뜻으로, 업무에서 필수적인 구문이죠. IELTS 스피킹에서도 실생활 예시로 자주 활용할 수 있습니다.
- nothing gets past her: "그녀를 지나치는 게 없다"는 뜻으로, 누군가가 세심하다는 것을 강조할 때 사용해요. 영어 발음 교정할 때도 이런 구문의 리듬을 연습하면 좋아요.
- felt stupid: "바보 같았다"는 느낌을 표현해요. 감정 표현에 자주 쓰이며, 쉽게 외울 수 있는 조합입니다.
당신의 쉐도잉 챌린지! 지금 바로 해보세요
영어 쉐도잉은 발음과 리듬을 빠르게 향상시키는 최고의 방법입니다. shadowspeaks나 shadow speech와 같은 방식으로 연습해보세요! 이번 챌린지에서는 비디오에서 "You might want to double-check the numbers on page 12"라는 구문을 선택해요. 다음 단계로 진행해주세요:
- 원본을 2-3번 듣고 발음과 강세를 주의깊게 살펴보세요.
- 1초 뒤에 따라 말하기 시작해요. 리듬과 억양을 최대한 비슷하게 따라하세요.
- 녹음해서 원본과 비교해보세요. 영어 발음 교정이 필요한 부분을 찾아 다시 연습하세요.
이렇게 5분씩 매일 연습하면, IELTS 스피킹에서도 자연스러운 발음과 표현을 사용할 수 있을 거예요. 작은 발전이 큰 결과를 만듭니다! 지금 시작해보세요!
이 영상의 문법
화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
|---|---|
| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | was annoyed · were put · was exhausted |
| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | you've seen · I've already revised · has been |
쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법
쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.