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enquire
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to ask for information
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outgoing
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1. (of a person) friendly and energetic and finding it easy and enjoyable to be with others
2. leaving a place, or leaving a job, having finished a period of time in it |
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precious
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very
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precious little going on that you would normally see on a university campus,
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rest in
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…에 원인이 있다
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The cello,resting in a corner of MIT's celebrated media laboratory- a hub of creativity-looks like any other electric classical instrument.
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celebrated
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famous for some special quality or ability
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worthy of sth
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deserving to be given attention, noticed,
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The aim is to build an instrument worthy of a great musician like Yo-Yo Ma that can understand what he is trying to do and respond to it.
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virtuoso
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a person who is extremely skilled at something, especially at playing an instrument or performing
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unleash
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to release suddenly a strong , uncontrollable and usually destructive force
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and unleash human potential is not a bad description of MIT as a whole.
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unite
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to join together as a group, or to make people join together as a group; to combine
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This unusual community brings highly gifted, highly motivated individuals together from a vast range of disciplines, united by a common desire: to leap into the dark and reach for the unknown
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leap into
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뛰어들다.
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common desire: to leap into the dark and reach for the unknown
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reach for
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손을 뻗다
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unifying
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통일[통합]하는, 통일적인.
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The result of that single unifying ambition is visible all around.
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hands-on
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adj.
1. Someone with a .... way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions 2. Someone who has ... experience of something has done or used it rather than just read or learned about it |
hands-on experimentation
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at a premium
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to be not common and therefore valuable
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Knowledge was at a premium, but it had to be useful
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down-to-earth
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practical and sensible
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be enshrined in
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If a political or social right is .... something, it is protected by being included in it
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This down-to-earth quality is enshrined in the school motto, mens et manus-mind and hand-as well as its logo,
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gowned
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가운(gown)을 입은
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gowned scholar
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ironmonger
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someone who sells tools for use in homes and gardens
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suffuse
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to spread through or over something completely
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That symbiosis of intellect and craftsmanship still suffuses the institute's classrooms,
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unconquered
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정복되지 않은
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augment
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to increase the size or value of something by adding something to it
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delight in
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to get a lot of pleasure from something,especially something unpleasant
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Wat MIT delights in is taking brilliant minds from around the world.
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forge ahead
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to suddenly make a lot of progress with something
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It is also forging ahead with alternative energies form solar to wind and geothermal,
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bury in
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…에 몰두하다[파묻히다].
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I spend my time with my head buried in the details of web technology,
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go down
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(of a website) stopped working
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mock
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made something or someone look stupid by saying unkind things or laughing at them
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Tayyip Erdogan mocked Twitter at a public rally.
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rally
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large public meeting of people of the same political opinion
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court ruling
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official decisions
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circulated
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shared; made available to lots of people
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alleged
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said or thought by some people to be the stated bad or illegal thing, although you have no proof
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There's the links I though to be alleged recordings of the prim minister's private phone conversations.
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