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
D-503's perfectly ordered world shattered the moment he met I-330. While recording the daily walk in his journal, he noticed her standing apart from the synchronized rows of other Numbers. She wore her uniform unbuttoned, a shocking violation, and smoked ancient cigarettes—a forbidden act. When her sharp, mocking eyes met his, D-503 felt a strange, terrifying sensation, like a crack appearing in the glass wall of his soul. For the first time, he experienced something his mathematical formulas could not explain. The encounter shook something loose in D-503 that no equation could name — a sensation the State had classified as pathological, and that he was only beginning to recognize as desire.
B2 · 128 wordsavg 25.6 w/s
The encounter with I-330 constituted not merely a meeting but an ontological rupture in D-503's consciousness. Her very presence—embodying asymmetry, irony, and deliberate nonconformity—acted as a corrosive agent upon the crystalline logic of One State. Where others moved with mechanical precision, she possessed a languid, almost feral grace; where speech followed prescribed patterns, hers was laced with subversive double meanings that awakened dormant cognitive pathways. D-503's subsequent journal entries betray a profound epistemological crisis, as he struggles to reconcile the irrational 'soul' she evokes with his axiomatic worldview. This initial collision with chaotic humanity foreshadows the irreversible disintegration of his integrated self, marking the genesis of his tragic rebellion. Day3 will explore how this nascent emotion manifests in his conflicted actions. In I-330, Zamyatin gives us the revolutionary impulse made flesh — dangerous precisely because she offers D-503 not ideology but experience, the one thing the State cannot schedule or abolish.
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.