이번주에는
백신 접종을 거부하는 수천만 명의 미국인들이 이기적이라는 내용을 가지고
영어 훈련하겠습니다.
'맨 꼴찌'를 영어로 뭐라 하는지,
같은 '승리'의 의미인 victory와 triumph의 차이,
A century later, the most remarkable part of this story is how unremarkable it was.와 같은 창의적인 영작과
100년 전의 영문법도 감상하기게 됩니다.
글쓴이인 펜실베니아 대학 교수의 치밀한 자료 조사와 설득력있는 논리도 재미있고,
교수의 글이면서 마지막이 '욕설'로 마무리된 것은 참신하게도 느껴집니다.
Baseball, vaccines and the triumph of selfishness
In April 1909, New York Highlanders‘ first baseman Hal Chase was hospitalized with smallpox near the team’s spring training site in Georgia. The rest of the squad -- which would be renamed the Yankees in 1913 -- took an overnight train to Richmond, Virginia, where they were scheduled to play an exhibition game against a minor league team before the regular season started.
But first, the players would need to undergo medical examinations to make sure they were not infected with the disease or at risk of spreading it to others. Informed about the Highlanders‘ situation, Surgeon General Walter Wyman sent Dr. Joseph Goldberger, a physician from the US Public Health Service, to Richmond “to pass upon the matter for the Government before the party be allowed to cross the Potomac,” as The New York Times reported.
The players, staff and accompanying newspaper reporters had already been vaccinated against smallpox. But the only way to know if a vaccination was effective was by examining the scar that it left. So “each man bared his arm,” the Times noted, “which revealed conditions to the medical experts.” Four players, a trainer and a journalist didn’t have visible scarring, so they were vaccinated again, along with two other players who had gone home and could not be examined by Goldberger.
A century later, the most remarkable part of this story is how unremarkable it was. As best as I can tell, nobody in the Highlanders organization resisted getting the vaccine. Nor did anyone on the Boston Red Sox refuse the following spring, when the team required players to be vaccinated against smallpox before the Sox went south for spring training.
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※ 시사영어 공부의 효과
1. 영어 훈련
잘못 알고 있는 단어 뜻을 익히며, 주요 문법과 주요 표현들의 반복 숙달
복잡한 문장 구조를 파악하는 연습
된장 냄새 나지 않는 영작 훈련
글쓴이의 창의적 표현 감상
2. 논리력 향상
글쓴이의 논리 전개를 감상하며 자신의 논리력을 향상시킵니다.
3. 시사 상식 확대
한국인이 미국인과 대화할 때 대화가 길게 이어지지 않는 것은
영어 실력이 부족해서이기도 하지만
사실, 시사 상식 부족으로 할 얘기가 없어서인 경우가 훨씬 더 많습니다.
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