이번주 시사영어 강의 기사 : 중국의 남미 광물 자원 확보 노력과 암초

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이번 주에는

미국이 남미에 소홀한 틈을 타서, 중국이 남미에 관심을 쏟고 있지만, 암초에 부딪치고 있다는 내용을 가지고
영어훈련하겠습니다.

글쓴이의 세련된 영작을 저와 함께 감상하시죠.

[빨간색 부분은 강의 듣기 전에 먼저 고민해 보셔야 할 중요한 표현입니다. 치매 예방에 큰 도움이 될 것입니다^^]

[영어훈련 하면서 글쓴이의 논리를 감상하시면, 여러분의 논리력도 강해집니다]

A Drug Gang Stole 3 Tons of Gold in a Scam So Perfect It’s Still Going

Miners are plundering one of the biggest mother lodes of gold in Latin America, led by gunmen who seized tunnels from a Chinese mining giant

By Juan Forero

Some 700 yards deep in Colombia’s richest gold mine, private security guards crouch behind sandbags, trapped in a failing battle with a drug-trafficking gang that has commandeered 30 miles of tunnels worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The air below ground is hot, humid, sometimes toxic, and the work is dangerous—defending claustrophobic passageways against tossed explosives and gunfire from AK-47 assault rifles. Two guards were killed and several others wounded last year. On the other side, braving their own dangers, are an estimated 2,000 illegal miners.

The scale of plunder is stunning. Mine owner Zijin Mining Group, a Chinese state-controlled company, estimated that last year it lost more than 3.2 tons of gold, worth around $200 million and equal to 38% of the mine’s total production. The illegal mining, a slow and laborious process that continues largely unpoliced by authorities, is a war “we are losing,” a Zijin security official said.

중략...........