Smart about series) Money a rich history

나는 Smart about series를 꽤나 좋아한다. 가장 먼저는 유익한 내용을 담고 있고, 두번째로는 독자들에게 논리적 글쓰기를 간접적으로 알려주기 때문이다. 예를 들면, <Money a rich history>에서는 Bill이라는 가상의 아이가 자신의 관심분야 중의 하나로 Money를 선택한다. 그리고 그가 Money를 주제로 선택한 이유, Money의 정의, 옛날 사람들은 어떤 물건들을 money로 사용 했는지, 그 물건들이 어떻게 바뀌었는지, 왜 바뀌었는지, coin & bill은 어떤 이유로 등장했는지, 낡은 지폐를 어떻게 처리하고, 어떤 사람들이 지폐에 그려져 있는지, 현재와 미래의 money는 어떤 형태인지를 설명해 준다. 이런 책을 읽으면 딱딱한 내용을 이렇게 간결하고 재미있게 풀어 쓰는 작가의 능력에 감탄하고, 나는 왜 이런 책들을 어렸을 때 읽지 않았을까 반성하게 된다.

 

What made you pick your topic? & Did you learn anything that really surprised you?

 

*coat of arms: a special shield or shield-shaped pattern that is the sign of a family, university, or city

 

In case you don’t remember mine, here it is again.

 

I make money walking dogs, mowing lawns, running errands, shoveling snow… you name it!

* you name it! 그 밖에 무엇이든지, 전부, used to say there are many things to choose from:

 

I am going to be a billionaire when I grow up.

 

What is money, anyway? Money is what people use to buy the things they want.

 

What did people do before there was money? Before people had money they used to do something called bartering. Bartering means trading one thing for another. … The problem with bartering is that each person has to own something that the other person wants.

* barter 물물교환, 물물교환을 하다

 

That’s why people invented money!

 

People who lived in the same area got together and picked something that they all agreed was valuable.

* get together 조직하다. 만나다.

 

It was also good for keeping meat from spoiling as well as making food taste better.

 

In different parts of the world, at different times in history, people used all sorts of things as money. There were problems with this kind of money, though.

 

Can I entrust you to guard my royal chocolate fortune?

* entrust 맡기다, 위임하다.

 

But all over the world there was one thing people agreed was VERY valuable – Gold.

 

It didn’t rust like iron, turn green like copper and bronze, or tarnish like silver.

* tarnish 손상하다, 더럽히다.

 

* pharaoh /ˈfer.oʊ/

*threw them into deep wells 깊은 우물

 

When explorers first came to the American Southwest, they were looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola, which supposedly had so much gold that the streets were paved with it.

* explorers /익스~/

 

The largest gold nugget ever was found in Australia in 1869.

* nugget 덩어리

 

The coins were made from a mixture of gold and silver.

The process of making coins is called minting, and the place where coins are made is called a mint.

* cupronickel /ˈkuːprənɪkl/ 쿠프러니컬

 

When the coins are brand-new and in perfect shape they’re said to be in mint condition.

 

After a while, people began to use the slips of paper as money. That’s how paper money started!

 

If you got your hands on all of the money that’s out there you would have: $539,890,223,079

*get your hands on something ~을 찾다. 얻다.

 

As long as there has been money, there have been people who have tried to make fake money.

It’s called counterfeiting.

*make phony money