영어 실력 향상을 위해 저작권 공개 사용이 가능한 내용물을 ‘필사’하는 글로써 구텐베르그에서 확인 가능.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Chapter 1

Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a log to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he desliked it, but he learend it painfully and thoroughtly to conteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton. There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, bieng very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym. He was Spider Kelly’s star pupil. Spider Keylly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighted one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds. But it seemed to fit Cohn. He was really very fast. He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanenlty flattened. This increased Cohn’s distaste for boxing, but it gave hime a certain satisfaction of some strange sort, and it certainly improved his nose. In his last year at Princetonhe read too much and took to wearing spectacles. I never ment any one of his class who remembered him. They did not evern remember that he was middleweight boxing champion.

thoroughly : 철저하게, 완전히

inferiority: 열등감, 하위, 낮은 수준

pupil: 학생, 제자

featherwegiths: 페더급 선수들(가벼운 복싱 체급)

distaste: 혐오감, 불쾌감

spectacles: (구어체) 안경

snooty: 거만한, 잘난 체하는, 건방진

Jew: 유대인