n .
the sill of a doorway ; a house's or building's entrance ; any point of beginning or entering 문지방 ; 집이나 건물의 출입구 ; 시작이나 진입하는 시점

• No matter how many times I see home videos of a new groom dropping his bride when he tries to carry her over the _____, I still laugh.
• Ambrose hung a sheaf of grain over the _____ of his house to keep demons away ; to keep burglars away, he put a leghold trap just inside the door.
  앰프로즈는 마귀를 멀리 쫓기 위해 고물 한 다발을 집 현관 문턱 우에 걸어 두었다 ; 강도를 쫓기 위한 방법으로, 그는 문 바로 안쪽에 다리를 잡는 덫을 설치했다.
• The dean told the new graduates that they stood at the _____ of a great adventure ; what he didn't say was that for many of them the adventure would be unemployment.