바에서 술 주문하기 - 해설

#. 바에서 술 주문하기 - 해설

 

Do you have any specials today?

 

So the first area that I wanna look at today is about asking about drink specials.

There's a lot where they'll have something on a specific night. So if you learn that the bar around the corner always has cheap beer on Thursday, that kind of thing.

Yeah. I would say that most bars or pubs, or even clubs, that offer some kind of drink special will change the special very, very often.

 

Yup, we have a $5 cocktail special until 9 PM and $4 domestic pints and highballs all night.

> Okay. that sounds good.

 

So let's talk a little about drinks. There are so many different kinds of alcoholic beverages and so many specialized words that we use to talk about them.

In this conversation we heard about cocktail and we heard about a pint, and that would be a draft pint. Draft pint means on tap, and in this one they asked for a domestic pint, which means that it is something that was made in the country that you're in.

 

I'll have a pint of Canadian and I'll get a gin and tonic and a dirty martini for my friends.

 

Most people will know about martinis, but what is the difference between a martini and a dirty martini?

A dirty martini has olive juice in it, actually. Because a martini is gin and vermouth, very little vermouth. So dirty martini, they put just a little bit of olive brine, the juice that olives float in when you buy them in a jar.

 

All right! Okay, so that's $16.

> Here you go, and keep the change.

 

Okay, let's move on to the final part of the conversation that we'll take a closer look at today. And this is a cultural aspect. If you travel to North America, Canada or the US, you're going to have to tip when you visit a bar.

Tipping is leaving a small amount of money for the person who served you. So for example, a lot of service positions earn tips. In North America, we tip hairdressers.

Now the customer in our conversation used an interesting expression to indicate that he was leaving a tip. So he said, "Keep the change, keep the change." It means that the server or bartender should keep for themselves whatever they would usually give back as change.

Mmhmm. And this is a very common expression that you can use whenever you want to give a tip.

It could be to a taxi driver or a hairdresser, bartender, any time somebody is giving you some change but you need to tip, you can just tell them, "Keep the change" and that will suffice as the tip.

 

• specific  spəˈsɪfɪk   구체적인, 명확한, 분명한 (=precise)   특정한 (=particular)   특유의, 독특한 (=peculiar)

• So if  만일 그렇다면

• that kind of thing  그런 것

• vermouth   vərˈmuːθ  베르무트(포도주에 향료를 넣어 우려 만든 술. 흔히 다른 음료와 섞어 칵테일로 마심)

• brine  braɪn  (특히 식품 저장용) 소금물 (→briny)

• jar  dƷɑ́ːr   (아가리가 넓은) 병, 단지, 항아리 ,   (특히 잼 꿀 등을 담아 두는) 병 (→jam jar)

• indicate  ˈɪndɪkeɪt  (사실임·존재함을) 나타내다 [보여 주다]

• suffice  səˈfaɪs   충분하다   sufficient  səˈfɪʃnt  충분한 (↔insufficient) (→self-sufficient)