Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with
images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.
This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into
the ocean.
바이올렛을 잘 아는 누구라도 그녀가 열심히 생각하는 중인 것을 구별할 수 있었는데, 왜냐하면 그녀의 긴 머리가 그녀의 눈에 들어가지 않도록 리본으로 묶여져 있었기 때문이었다. 바이올렛은 이상한 장치들을 발명하고 만들어내는데 진짜 재주를 가지고 있었는데, 그래서 그녀의 두뇌는 종종 도르래들, 지렛대들, 그리고 기어들의 이미지들로 채워져 있었고, 그녀는 결코 그녀의 머리카락처럼 시시한 어떤것에 의해 산만해지길 원하지 않았다. 오늘 아침 그녀는 당신이 돌멩이를 바닷속으로 던져 물수제비를 뜬 후에 그것을 되찾아올 수 있는 한 장치를 만드는 방법에 대해 생각중이었다.
* keep out of ~에 들어가지 않다
* knack 재주, 요령, ~하는 버릇
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up with a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wants to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you skipped it into the ocean.