Obituary
26. Mildred Loving
(May 15th 2008, From The Economist print edition)

Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68

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THEY loved each other. That must have been why they decided to get their marriage certificate framed and to hang it up in the bedroom of their house. There was little else in the bedroom, save the bed. Certainly nothing worth locking the front door for on a warm July night in 1958 in Central Point, Virginia. No one came this way, ten miles off the Richmond Turnpike into the dipping hills and the small, poor, scattered farmhouses, unless they had to. But Mildred Loving was suddenly woken to the crash of a door and a torch levelled in her eyes.
All the law enforcement of Caroline county stood round the bed: Sheriff Garnett Brooks, his deputy and the jailer, with guns at their belts. They might have caught them in the act. But as it was, the Lovings were asleep. All the men saw was her black head on the pillow, next to his.
She didn't even think of it as a Negro head, especially. Her hair could easily set straight or wavy. That was because she had Indian blood, Cherokee from her father and Rappahannock from her mother, as well as black. All colours of people lived in Central Point, blacks with milky skin and whites with tight brown curls, who all passed the same days feeding chickens or smelling tobacco leaves drying, and who all had to use different counters from pure whites when they ate lunch in Bowling Green. They got along. If there was any race Mrs Loving considered herself, it was Indian, like Princess Pocahontas. And Pocahontas had married a white man.

A. 어휘
must+have+pp→...했음에 틀림없다(과거사실에 대한 확신). certificate 증명서.
frame (그림, 사진을)액자에 넣다. save ...외에는(전치사). lock 자물쇠를 채우다.
nothing worth locking the front door. 앞문을 걸어 잠가야 할 만큼 가치가 있는 물건은 하나도 없다. nothing 앞에 there was 가 생략되어 있음.
turnpike 유료도로. dip 경사지다, 물에 담그다. dipping hills 경사진 丘陵地(구릉지). scatter 씨를 뿌리다. scattered farmhouses 흩어져 있는 농가들.
wake-woke-woken or wake-waked-waked 잠이 깨다. crash 轟音(굉음), 粉碎(분쇄).
torch 횃불. level 같은 높이가 되게 하다, 조준하다. law enforcement 법의 집행(관).
county 郡(군)[州(주)에 다음가는 행정구역]. sheriff 보안관(군의 치안책임자).
deputy 副官(부관), 보좌관, 補(보). jailer 교도관.
might+have+pp.→...했을지도 모른다(과거사실에 대한 추측).
in the act 현행범으로(체포하다). as it was 사실은.
a Negro head 털이 곱슬곱슬한 흑인의 머리. straight (머리털이) 곱슬거리지 않는.
wavy 波形(파형)의. tobacco leaves drying 건조되고 있는 담배 잎.
cf. Richmond는 담배생산지로 유명. Bowling Green 식당 이름.

26-2-112
The sheriff asked her husband: 'What are you doing in bed with this lady?' Richard Loving didn't answer. He never said much for himself, being just a country bricklayer with a single year of high school behind him. Mrs Loving had known him since she was 11 and he was 17, a gangly white boy who took her out for years and did the decent thing when he got her pregnant, by asking her to marry him. She thought he might have known that their marriage was illegal--a strange marriage, driving 80 miles to Washington, DC, to be married almost secretly by a pastor who wasn't theirs, just picked out of the telephone book, and then driving back again. But they hadn't talked about legalities. She felt lucky just to have him.
She told the sheriff, 'I'm his wife.' And Mr Loving, roused at last, pointed to the framed certificate above the bed. 'That's no good here,' Sheriff Brooks said.
Mrs Loving had said the wrong thing. Had they just been going together, black and white, no one would have cared much. But they had formalised their love, and had the paperwork. This meant that under Virginia law they were cohabiting 'against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth'. It was a felony for blacks and whites to marry, and another felony to leave Virginia to do so. Fifteen other states had similar laws. The Lovings had to get up and go to jail. 'The Lord made sparrows and robins, not to mix with one another,' as Sheriff Brooks said later.

A. 어휘
country bricklayer 시골 벽돌직공. gangly 호리호리하고 키가 큰.
decent 품위 있는. got her pregnant 임신을 시켰다. illegal 불법적인.
pastor 주임목사. legality 合法性(합법성). rouse 깨우다, 감정을 자극하다.
formalise 격식을 갖추게 하다, 형식화하다. paperwork 서류작성. cohabit 동거하다.
dignity 존엄. the Commonwealth 州(주)[미국], 연방(영국). felony 重罪(중죄).
the Lovings 러빙 부부. sparrow 참새. robin 붉은 가슴울새.

B. 구문
- their marriage was . . .then driving back again.
- [그들의 결혼은 불법이었다--Washington DC. 까지 80마일을 가서 그들 교회의 목사가 아닌, 전화번호부를 보고 선택한 목사에 의해서 거의 비밀결혼을 하고 다시 고향으로 돌아온 이상한 결혼이었다.]
-Had they just been going together→If they had just been going together.