1. โA challenging period.โ
Thatโs how Mark Zuckerberg described in a memo _____________ will be like for Meta employees after he announced the once-impervious social media company will cut another 10,000 jobs in the months ahead.
"์ด๋ ค์ด ์๊ธฐ."
๋งํฌ ์ฃผ์ปค๋ฒ๊ทธ๋ ํ๋ ๋ฌด์ ์ ์์
๋ฏธ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์
์ด ์์ผ๋ก ๋ช ๋ฌ ์์ 10,000๊ฐ์ ์ผ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๊ฐ์ถํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฐํํ ํ, ๋ฉํ ์ง์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ฏธ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ค ๋ชจ์ต์ผ์ง ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ค๋ช
ํ๋ค.
*once-impervious: ํ๋ ๋ฌด์ ์
ex) Once-impervious social media company is now on the brink of closure. ํ๋ ์๋๊ฐ๋ ์์
๋ฏธ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์
์ ์ด์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ซ์ ์๊ธฐ์ ์ฒํ๋ค.
2. The cuts to the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp come after it laid off about 11,000 employees in November, which at the time represented the companyโs first-ever workforce reduction. ______________________, Meta will have cut about 24% of its workforce, or one in four employees, in just about half a year.
ํ์ด์ค๋ถ, ์ธ์คํ๊ทธ๋จ, ์์ธ ์ฑ์ ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์
์ธ ๋ฉํ๋ ์ง๋ 11์์ ์ฝ 11,000๋ช
์ ์ง์์ ํด๊ณ ํ ๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ๋น์ ํ์ฌ ์ฌ์ ์ต์ด์ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ถ์ด์๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๊ฐ์๊ณผ ๋๋ถ์ด ๋ฉํ๋ ์ฝ ๋ฐ๋
๋ง์ ์ ์ฒด ์ง์์ ์ฝ 24%, ์ฆ ์ง์ 4๋ช
์ค 1๋ช
์ ๊ฐ์ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค.
* lay off: ํด๊ณ
ex) The company has laid off 150 workers in an effort to save money. ์ด ํ์ฌ๋ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ํด 150๋ช
์ ์ง์์ ํด๊ณ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
3. Meta, in particular, has been battling some of the most severe headwinds in Silicon Valley. The company has had to _______________ an ever-weakening digital advertising sector amid broader economic turmoil, Appleโs unforgiving new privacy policy, the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence technologies, and the seemingly unstoppable rise of TikTok.
ํนํ ๋ฉํ๋ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์ญํ๊ณผ ์ธ์ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๊ด๋ฒ์ํ ๊ฒฝ์ ํผ๋, ์ ํ์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฐ์ธ์ ๋ณด ๋ณดํธ ์ ์ฑ
, ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ธ๋ถ์, ํฑํก์ ๊ฑฐ์นจ์๋ ์์น์ธ ์์์ ๋์งํธ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ์ ์ ์ฝํ๋๋ ํ๋ฆ๊ณผ ์จ๋ฆํด์ผ ํ๋ค.
* has been battling ~ : ~์ ์ธ์ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค
ex) For the last decade, the landowner has been battling to keep trespassers out. ์ง๋ 10๋
๋์ ํ ์ง ์์ ์ฃผ๋ ์นจ์
์๋ฅผ ๋ง๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ณ ๊ตฐ๋ถํฌํด ์๋ค.
4. Nevertheless, the layoff announcements have naturally sent morale at the Menlo Park-headquartered company plummeting. The latest announcement, in particular, has left already anxious employees distressed and wondering whether they might be on ____________ in the near future.
๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ํด๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ก ์ธํด ๋ฉ๋ก ํํฌ์ ๋ณธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ ๊ณค๋๋ฐ์ง์ณค๋ค. ํนํ ์ต๊ทผ์ ๋ฐํ๋ก ์ธํด ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ถ์ํดํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ง์๋ค์ ์กฐ๋ง๊ฐ ํด๊ณ ๋์์ด ๋ ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋ค๋ ๋ถ์๊ฐ์ ํฉ์ธ์ฌ ์๋ค.
* morale - ์ฌ๊ธฐ, ์์
ex) The morale of the football team hit rock bottom. ์ถ๊ตฌํ์ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ณค์ต๋๋ค.
5. The bigger question moving forward is whether Meta can indeed exit this ____________ a stronger company โ or will instead continue in a slow decline as its primary products reach maturation while Zuckerberg chases the hope that one day his big bet on the metaverse will materialize.
์์ผ๋ก ๋ ํฐ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ๋ฉํ๊ฐ ์ด ๊ณ ํต์ค๋ฌ์ด ๊ตญ๋ฉด์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํ์ฌ๋ก ๊ฑฐ๋ญ๋ ์ ์์์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์ฃผ์ปค๋ฒ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฉํ๋ฒ์ค์ ๋ํ ํฐ ๋ฒ ํ
์ด ์คํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ํฌ๋ง์ ์ข๋ ๋์ ์ฃผ์ ์ ํ์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฉ์ถ๊ณ ๋๋ฆฐ ์ ํด๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ํ ์ง ์ฌ๋ถ๋ค.
* materialize - ๊ตฌ์ฒดํ๋๋ค[์คํ๋๋ค]
ex) The money we had been promised failed to materialize. ์ฝ์ํ๋ ๊ธ์ก์ ์คํ๋์ง ์์๋ค.
......
๋ต:
- what the near future
- Coupled with the new cuts
- grapple with
- the chopping block
- painful phase
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