Chloe Kim
Korean-American Chloe Kim just won gold in the Winter Olympics in a snowboarding event and suddenly two countries, the US and Korea, both Koreas, are in love with her. She is only 17 years old and she definitely talks like an American teenager. One of her favourite subjects is food and here she talks about not having enough to eat before winning her gold medal. Yes, she used the word “hangry”, a word I had never heard before.
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snowboarding (noun) a winter sport where a person moves over the snow standing on a wide board
hangry (adj) hungry + angry; feeling unhappy or even a little angry because you haven’t eaten for a long time
miserable (adj) very unhappy or uncomfortable ทนทุกข์, เป็นทุกข์, เดือดร้อน,
clementine (noun) a type of sweet orange
system – digestive system (noun) the series of organs inside the body that digest food (stomach, intestines, etc.) ระบบย่อยอาหาร
Well, I mean I guess I’m always hungry for food, but ah, yes, I was a little hangry, I was, you know, I actually ate probably 20 minutes ago, so I’m feeling a lot better now.
OK, I was miserable this morning because I woke up at six. We got sandwiches in our fridge, right. Someone delivered sandwiches to us. I didn’t finish mine (be)cause it was cold and I, like, had a few bites of it and I was like, you know what?, I’m not that hungry. I’ll be fine. Had a few bites of the sandwich, um, and a little clementine and I thought I’d be fine and then at, like, eleven I was like “OOOH”. Why didn’t I finish that sandwich?”
But yeah, I’m glad I got some pizza into my system and a latte and I’m feeling good. Ready to go.
Words to remember
hangry: unhappy or irritated because you are hungry. This is a fun type of word that you might want to teach your friends.
Don’t bother me – unless you have food. I’m hangry.
miserable: This can be used in a serious sense or it can be used to exaggerate (to make something seem bigger or more serious than it really is) a situation.
Life for the Rohingya in the Bangladesh refugee camps is truly miserable and it will get worse in the rainy season.
What a miserable day. Will the rain ever stop?
