In the One State, citizens had numbers instead of names.
유일국에서 시민들은 이름 대신 숫자를 가졌다.
Day 3 · 목표 ⭐
D-503 lived in a glass city where every hour was scheduled by the Table of Hours, and where the concept of privacy had been officially abolished in the name of happiness.
D-503은 유리로 된 도시에 살았으며, 그곳에서는 모든 시간이 '시간표'에 의해 정해지고, 행복이라는 이름 아래 사생활이라는 개념이 공식적으로 폐지되었다.
2Reading· 오늘의 본문
We · Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924
In the One State, citizens lived by numbers, their identities reduced to mathematical designations. D-503, the novel's protagonist, was no exception — his very existence governed by the precise calculations of the State. He resided in a transparent city of glass, where every action from waking to sleeping was dictated by the unyielding Table of Hours. In this world, privacy was considered an archaic and dangerous illness, surgically removed in the name of collective happiness and perfect order. D-503 had never questioned this arrangement. To him, the Table of Hours was not a prison but a comfort — a perfect mathematical solution to the chaos of human desire. Yet somewhere beneath his ordered mind, something was beginning to stir — something the State had no name for, and no surgery to remove.
B2 · 128 wordsavg 25.6 w/s
Zamyatin's One State presents a society where individual identity has been systematically replaced by numerical designation, stripping citizens of the very language of selfhood. D-503, the mathematician-protagonist, inhabits this world not as a prisoner but as a true believer — a man who has so thoroughly internalized the State's logic that freedom appears to him as chaos. D-503 lived in a glass city where every hour was scheduled by the Table of Hours, and where the concept of privacy had been officially abolished in the name of happiness. The glass walls that ensure total transparency are not merely architectural — they are ideological instruments, making interiority itself a form of crime. What makes We uniquely disturbing is that D-503 is not a victim who resists — he is a true believer who must learn, painfully, that the soul cannot be abolished by decree. Zamyatin understood that the deepest revolutions begin not in the streets but in the private, unscheduled moment when a person first thinks a thought that belongs entirely to themselves.
C1 · 170 wordsavg 34.0 w/s
3Vocabulary· 핵심 어휘 & 연습
scheduled
예정된, 시간표에 따라 계획된
Every minute of a citizen's day is meticulously scheduled by the State.
concept
개념, 관념
The concept of personal freedom is alien in the One State.
privacy
사생활, 프라이버시
The glass walls ensure there is no privacy for any individual.
officially
공식적으로
Individualism was officially declared a mental illness.
abolished
폐지된, 철폐된
The old world's chaotic emotions have been abolished for stability.
collective
집단적, 공동의
The State values collective happiness over individual desire.
Activity 1 · 빈칸 채우기5 questions
1. Every hour of D-503's life was carefully ____ by the Table of Hours.
2. The ____ of privacy did not exist in the One State.
3. Individual names were ____ and replaced with numbers.
4. The glass walls guaranteed there was no ____ for citizens.
5. The State was ____ declared to represent perfect happiness.
Activity 2 · 듣고 고르기5 questions
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Activity 3 · 단어 배열하기3 questions · 점진적 난이도
Easy · 5 words
정답: People lived by numbers.
livedPeoplenumbersby.
Medium · 10 words
정답: Citizens had numbers instead of names in the One State.
hadinsteadCitizensnamesthenumbersofStateOnein
Hard · 13 words
정답: Privacy had been officially abolished in the name of collective happiness.