해리포터 작가, J.K. Rowling <Part-2>
해리포터 작가, J.K. Rowling <Part-2>
For the next 2 years, she wrote in the café while the baby slept in the stroller <접을 수 있는> 유모차. She sent the manuscript 원고 out to 12 publishers. They all rejected it. Then one company offered her $4,000 and some advice. “He said to me, now remember, you’re not gonna make much money. There’s not much money in children’s books.”
The rest, the books, the movies, the fame, even the recent revelation 뜻밖의 새 사실 that the wizard of Hogwarts is gay is a story everyone knows. “J.K Rowling!” This year, with the long-awaited publication 출판, 발행 of the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, her story was over.
She had transformed 바꾸다, 전환하다 the ordinary milestones 이정표 of a child’s life, loneliness and loss, friendship and the struggle to grow up into a story that captivated ~의 마음을 사로잡다, 매혹하다 the world. And that for us, makes J.K. Rowling, the most extraordinary 훌륭한, 멋진, 드문, magical and fascinating person of 2007.
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Our next story is one that seems to defy 감히 도전하다, 무시하다 medicine and logic 논리, 이치. A man working on a skyscraper 초고층빌딩, 마천루 plunges 떨어지다, 추락하다 47 stories. And he’s now well on his way to a full recovery. How can it be? Here’s ABC’s John McKenzie.
No one, not even his doctors can explain it. How can someone plunge 47 stories and survive? But Alcides Moreno not only survived, he’s now talking and will soon walk again. “I don’t know what adjective <문법> 형용사의 you’d care to use. Unprecedented 전례가 없는. Extraordinary. If you are a believer in miracles, this would be one.” “I don’t know what to tell you. I’m still at awe. I’m still in shock.”
Moreno, a 37-year-old window washer was working alongside his brother last month when their tiny scaffold <건축용의> 발판 gave way 무너지다, plummeting <똑바로> 떨어지다 all the way down to this terrace. The 2 were found only feet apart. His brother had died.