"keep in touch" = "계속 연락을 취하다"

"keep in touch"는
"계속 연락을 취하다" 

라는 뜻을 가진 

이디엄입니다.

 

아래 대화를 통해 그 사용법과

다른 이디엄을 익혀봅시다.

 

 

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Linda: I've been trying to track down 

some old friends.

 

(track down: ~을 찾아내다)

 

 

 

Nancy: Haven't you kept in touch* with them?

 

 

 

Linda: No. We lost track of each other.

 

(lose track of someone:

~와 접촉이 끊어지다)

 

 

 

Nancy: Didn't you ever come across

any of them?

 

(come across someone:

~를 우연히 만나다)

 

 

 

Linda: A few. Some have settled down,

some are tied down, some are

living it up and others are in a rut.

 

(settle down: 정착하다)

 

(tied down: 가족 또는 일에 묶여 있다)

 

(live it up: 신나게 살다)

 

(in a rut: 틀에 박혀)

 

 

 

Nancy: I hope one day you'll all be able to

chew the fat together.

 

(chew the fat: 담소를 나누다)

 

 

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* keep in touch

 

=

 

to continue to talk to

or write to someone

 

(누구에게 계속

이야기하거나 글을 쓰다)  

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(예문)

 

Have you kept in touch with

your college roommate?

 

(당신 대학시절 룸메이트와

계속 연락을 취하시나요?) 

 

<자료: Merriam-Webster Dictionary>

 

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Excerse 1  Complete the sentences

with the correct idiom.

 

 

a) track down,  b) live it up,

c) settled down,  d) chew the fat,

e) tied down,  f) come across,

g) kept in touch,  h) in a rut,

i) lost track of them 

 

 

1. I like to meet old friends and ________.

 

2. My life is always the same. It never

changes. I'm ______________.

 

3. When you have children and dogs

and a house, you are ____________.

 

4. It's fun to take a vacation and _____.

 

5. He was a bachelor for many years,

but he found the right girl and _______.

 

6. When looking at old photographs,

you ______ a lot of memories.

 

7. Whatever happened to my former

schoolmates? I ___________.

 

8. She was adopted. Now she wants to

_______ her biological parents.

 

9. I telephone my former high school

friends today. I'm glad we _________.

 

 

 

Answers

 

1. d,  2. h,  3. e,  4. b, 

5. c,  6. f,  7. i,  8. a,  9. g

 

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Excerse 2  Rewrite the phrase in italics,

using the proper idiomatic expression.

 

 

1. She has three children, a sick mother

and a job. It's difficult for her to get away.

 

2. She goes to every party.

She likes to have a godd time.

 

3. Her son is an hour late for dinner.

She's calling his friends trying to find him.

 

4. He moved out of the country and

she had no contact with him. 

 

5. When he was younger, he was very wild.

Now he leads a very quiet life.

 

6. We had a friendly talk this afternoon.

 

7. I was so surprised. I met him accidently

in the surpermarket.

 

8. Kim moved back to Korea but she

and Barbara write to each other.

 

9. She never gets out and meets new people.

Her life is always the same.

 

 

 

Answers

 

1. She's tied down,  2. live it up,

3. track him down,  4. lost track of him,

5. he's settled down,  6. chewed the fat,

7. came across him,  8. keep in touch

9. She's in a rut