🌟 동토 (凍土)

Noun  

1. 얼어붙은 땅.

1. FROZEN LAND: A frozen land.

🗣️ Usage Example:
  • 동토 지대.
    Eastland.
  • 동토 지반.
    Copper soil ground.
  • 동토가 녹다.
    The soil melts.
  • 동토가 되다.
    Become frozen.
  • 동토가 형성되다.
    Copper soil forms.
  • 이렇게 땅이 차고 척박한 동토에서는 농사를 짓기 어렵다.
    Farming is difficult in this cold and barren winter soil.
  • 날이 풀리면서 한겨울 추위에 얼어붙었던 동토에도 새싹이 피어나기 시작했다.
    As the weather got warmer, buds began to bloom on the frozen winter soil.

2. (비유적으로) 인간의 자유를 몹시 심하게 억압하여 사상이나 행동이 자유롭지 못한 곳.

2. FROZEN LAND: (figurative) A place where one cannot act or think freely due to severe suppression of one's freedom.

🗣️ Usage Example:
  • 정치적 동토.
    Political winter solstice.
  • 동토가 되다.
    Become frozen.
  • 동토로 만들다.
    Make into frozen soil.
  • 독재로 얼어붙은 동토에서도 민주화의 바람이 불기 시작했다.
    The wind of democratization began to blow even in the frozen land of dictatorship.
  • 냉전이 종료되면서 억압되어 있던 동토에도 자유주의가 뿌리내렸다.
    Libertarianism also took root in the repressed land at the end of the cold war.

🗣️ Pronunciation, Application: 동토 (동ː토)

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