TIME Monday, February 09, 2009
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Equal Opportunity Abe
58. What Would Lincoln Do?
By DAVID VON DREHLE / SPRINGFIELD

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Abraham Lincoln's marble temple in Washington is as familiar as the back of a penny. But the figure enthroned inside will always be above and apart, a demigod martyr, prophet, scourge and healer rolled into one. That he was killed on Good Friday with hosannas of triumph still echoing in his ears added a religious overtone to the grief of his countrymen and, from the hour of his death, guaranteed that Lincoln could never again fit into the frame of an ordinary man.
But he was a man, in ways as familiar as the guy next door. He liked sports, dirty jokes and being the alpha male. He flirted with pretty women and suffered occasional deafness when his wife was talking. He put his feet on the furniture, encouraged his sons to roughhouse and break things, suffered from bad digestion. And he spent a lot of his life thinking about money. Not that he was greedy quite the opposite but he had a poor boy's understanding of the fact that money is a powerful tool, the lever that makes ambition possible. 'The penniless beginner in the world,' he once explained, 'labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himselfthen labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.' This steady, gradual advance, Lincoln insisted, is 'the prosperous system, which opens the way for all gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.' We know it as the American Dream, and it certainly worked for him. Beginning with nothing, Lincoln managed to educate himself, raise a family in comfort and subsidize his history-shaping political campaigns all thanks to that useful instrument, money.

A. 어휘
bicentennial 200년의, 200년 記念祭(기념제). marble 대리석. temple 神殿(신전).
figure 인물, 形象(형상). enthrone ...을 왕위에 앉히다.
demigod 半神半人(반신반인), 神人(신인), 神처럼 숭앙받는 사람.
martyr 순교자. prophet 예언자. scourge 천벌, 災殃(재앙)의 원인. healer 치료자, 약.
Good Friday 부활절 직전의 금요일. hosanna 호산나, 열광적인 찬미.
overtone 함축적인 의미. guarantee 보증하다. fit into 맞추다, 適合(적합)시키다.
alpha male (동물) 우두머리 수컷. flirt with 시시덕거리다, 가지고 놀다.
occasional 가끔의. deafness 귀가 머는 것. roughhouse 야단법석을 떨다.
digestion 소화. not that...but that ...때문이 아니고...때문이다.
greedy 탐욕스러운. lever 수단, 지렛대. awhile 잠깐. surplus 나머지, 剩餘(잉여).
on his own account 그 자신의 비용으로. another while 또 얼마 동안.
at length 마침내. steady 끊임없는, 불변의, 차분한. gradual 漸進的(점진적)인, 완만한.
prosperous 알맞은, 번영하는, 성공하는. subsidize 보조금을 지급하다.
instrument 도구.

B. 구문
- But the figure enthroned ...rolled into one.
[그러나 神殿(신전)안의 王座(왕좌)에 앉아 있는 인물은 이 세상을 초월해서 다른 세계에 있는 神적인 인물 순교자, 예언자, 재앙의 원인과 치유의 힘이 한 덩어리로 뭉쳐져 있는일 것이다.]
- with hosannas of triumph still echoing in his ears
=while hosannas of triumph were still echoing in his ears
=hosannas of triumph being still echoing in his ears
=hosannas of triumph still echoing in his ears
=with hosannas of triumph still echoing in his ears
cf. with+N+ing/p.p→ 독립분사구문의 부대상황
[승리의 찬미가가 아직도 그의 귓전에서 울리고 있을 동안에]
- fit into the frame of an ordinary man.
[보통사람의 틀에 맞추다]

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This mundane fact may seem so obvious that it isn't worth mentioning in the middle of a flood of Lincoln hoopla. February marks the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Bookstore shelves are sagging under the weight of new Lincoln tomes. Museums, galleries and lecture halls across the country and around the world have scheduled Lincoln programs. New pennies are being minted, old controversies revisited. And this already keen interest has been further stoked by what Lincoln Bicentennial Commission executive director Eileen Mackevich calls an 'Obama wind.' The new President, another slender fellow from Illinois, has been busy reading about Lincoln, quoting Lincoln, evoking Lincoln. The Lincoln Memorial was among Barack Obama's first stops in Washington, and when Obama was sworn in last month it was, for many, the culmination of a long march that began with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Inevitably, the main focus of all this attention is Lincoln's views on race and equality, and his leadership during the cataclysmic Civil War. Yet given the fix we're in, Lincoln's economic ideas deserve some attention too. Long before he gave his first speeches about Union or slavery, Lincoln was a crusader on questions of economic development and banking. He cut his political teeth on conditions painfully topical for us today: an economic crash that left the young legislator struggling to shore up a failing bank while arguing for government spending on public works.

A. 어휘
mundane 세속적인, 현세의, 세계의. obvious 명백한. hoopla 법석, 과대선전.
shelf 선반, 砂州(사주). sag 축 처지다, 휘다. tome 큰 책. lecture hall 강의실.
mint [(화폐를)鑄造(주조)]하다, 박하(향료). keen 열중해 있는, 예민한, 날카로운.
stoke 불을 때다. commission 위원회. executive director 집행이사.
Obama 미국의 첫 흑인 대통령. slender 호리호리한. quote 인용하다.
evoke 喚起(환기)시키다. memorial 기념관.
swear-swore-sworn 선서하다, 맹세하다. be sworn in 취임을 위해 선서하다.
a long march 長征(장정). emancipation 해방. proclamation 公布(공포), 선언.
inevitably 불가피하게, 필연적으로. race 인종. equality 평등.
cataclysmic 대변동의, 激動(격동)의, 天災地變(천재지변)의. civil war 內戰(내전).
fix 困境(곤경), 난관, 상태. deserve ...을 받을만한 가치가 있다. union 연방.
crusader 개혁운동가, 십자군 용사. banking 은행업.
cut one's teeth on 젊을 때 ...을 배우다, 어릴 때부터...을 익히다.
topical 화제의, 시사문제의. painfully 아프도록. crash 파산, 추락, 파괴.
legislator 국회의원, 입법자. shore up 떠받치다, 버팀목을 대다.
public works 公共(공공) 토목공사.