Obituary
80. Omar Bongo
Jun 18th 2009 From The Economist print edition

Omar Bongo Ondimba, president of Gabon, died on June 8th, aged 73

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ON THE Atlantic coast of Gabon, white sand beaches slope out into the ocean. That sand, in which few tourists leave their footprints, was Omar Bongo's. Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles. Oil rigs and gas flares punctuate the horizon: his oil, 3.2 billion barrels in proven reserves. Eastwards, the silver carriages of the world's most expensive railway rattle five times a week through his hardwood forests between Libreville, the capital, and Franceville, in his homeland, carrying loads of his manganese or piled high with his okoume and ozigo logs, bound mostly for China.
Mr Bongo made no distinction between Gabon and his private property. He had ruled there so long, 42 years, that they had become one. It was therefore perfectly natural that an oil company, granted a large concession for coastal drilling, should slip him regular suitcases stuffed with cash. It was natural that $2.6m in aid money should be used to decorate his private jet, that government funds should pay for the Italian marble cladding his palace, and that his wife Edith's sea-blue Maybach, in which she was driven round Paris, should be paid for with a cheque drawn on the Gabonese treasury. Of the $130m in his personal accounts at Citibank in New York, it was probablethough Citibank never asked, and nobody ever managed to pin a charge on himthat much of it was derived from the GDP of his country.

A. 어휘
obituary 사망기사. slope 경사지다. buffalo 물소, 들소. stroll 한가롭게 거닐다.
leatherback turtles 장수거북[熱帶産(열대산) 바다거북]. oil rigs 석유 採掘(채굴)장비.
flare 너울거리는 불꽃. punctuate 句讀點(구두점)을 찍다, 강조하다.
horizon 수평선. proven reserves 증명된 매장량. silver carriages 은빛 열차.
rattle 덜컹거리며 달리다. hardwood 硬木(경목)〈참나무, 마호가니 등 〉log 통나무.
loads of 많은. load 짐, 積荷(적하). pile 쌓아 올리다. bound for ...行(행)의.
distinction 구별. private property 개인재산. rule 지배하다, 통치하다.
perfectly 완전히. grant 승낙하다, 下賜(하사)하다.
concession 採掘權(채굴권), 특권, 면허, 허용, 양보.
coastal drilling 沿岸(연안) 채굴. slip 살짝 쥐어 주다.
regular 定期的(정기적)인, 규칙적인, 일상의.
suitcases stuffed with cash 현금으로 채워진 가방. stuff 속을 채우다, 剝製(박제)하다.
decorate 장식하다. government funds 정부의 돈(자금). marble 대리석.
clad-clad-clad 淘金(도금)하다. palace 궁전. Maybach 독일제 고급 승용차.
draw 인출하다. treasury 國庫(국고), 財務省(재무성). account 計座(계좌).
pin on 책임(죄)을 씌우다. pin a charge on 고발하다. derive 끌어내다, 파생하다.

B. 구문
- carrying loads of his manganese . . . bound mostly for China.
cf. piled→being piled
[대부분 중국으로 가는 다량의 망간을 적재하고 있거나 아니면 okoume 와 ozigo 통나무가 높이 쌓여 있는 ]
- Mr Bongo made no distinction . . . they had become one.
[Bongo 대통령은 그의 나라 가봉과 그의 개인 재산을 구별하지 않고 하나로 생각하였다. 그는 너무 오래 동안(42년) 가봉에서 통치하였기 때문에 가봉과 그의 재산은 하나로 통합되어 버렸다.]
- the Italian marble cladding his palace
[그의 궁전을 덮고 있는 이태리 대리석]

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The suggestion of fiddling public finances flummoxed and infuriated him. Corruption, he once explained to a reporter, was not an African word. No more was nepotism: he simply looked after his family, supplying them with villas in Nice as well as the ministries of defence and foreign affairs. When French judges in 2009 froze nine of his 70 bank accounts, he was outraged. An attack on him was obviously an attempt to destabilise his country. He was equally indignant when in 2004, after a "Miss Humanity" pageant was held in Libreville, Miss Peru charged him with sexual harassment for summoning her to the palace and, he hoped, to his nifty behind-the-panelling bed. If something was in Gabon, by nature or chance, he evidemment had first dibs on it.
France, the ex-colonial power in Gabon, went along with this. Mr Bongo, though short, was every inch a Francophile, from his platform heels through the immaculate tailoring to his gravelly-but-grammatical French. Their bargain, too, was a neat one. He allowed the French to take his oil and wood they subsidised and protected him. At various times through his long political career, when opposition elements got brash or multi-party democracy, which he allowed after 1993, became too lively, the French military base in Libreville would turn out the paratroopers for him.

A. 어휘
fiddle 속이다, 허비하다, 바이올린. public finances 公金(공금).
flummox 얼떨떨하게 하다, 당황하게 하다. infuriate 激忿(격분)시키다.
corruption 부패. nepotism 緣故者(연고자) 登用(등용). looked after 보살펴 주다.
the ministries of defence and foreign affairs 외무부와 국방부.
freeze-froze-frozen 凍結(동결)시키다. bank accounts 은행계좌. outrage 격노하다.
obviously 분명히. destabilise 불안정하게 하다. equally 같은 정도로, 동등하게.
indignant 격분한. humanity 인간다움, 인간성, 인류.
pageant 퍼레이드, 야외극, 가장행렬, 구경거리. sexual harassment 성희롱.
summon 소환하다. palace 대통령궁, 왕궁. nifty 멋들어진. panelling 장식판자.
behind-the-panelling bed 장식 벽 뒤에 있는 침대. evidemment 당연히, 물론.
dibs 요구, 청구권, 돈, 잔돈. ex-colonial power 前 식민지 강국.
go along with 동행하다. though short=though he was short 키는 작았지만.
Francophile 親(친) 프랑스주의자.
platform heels 플랫폼 슈즈(구두 앞 부분에 도톰한 굽이 있는 스타일).
immaculate 티 하나 없이 깨끗한, 순결한. tailoring 양복 짓는 법.
gravelly 자갈이 많은. 귀에 그슬리는. bargain 거래, 매매계약. neat 깔끔한, 단정한.
subsidise 보조금을 주다. opposition 반대, 야당. elements 폭풍우, 자연력, 요소.
brash 성급한, 건방진. turn out 出動(출동)하다. paratrooper 공수부대.

B. 구문
- Corruption, he once explained . . . No more was nepotism.
[한번은 그는 어떤 기자에게 부패라는 단어는 아프리카의 말이 아니라고 설명하였다.
연고자등용이라는 말도 아프리카의 것이 아니었다.]
- when opposition elements got brash
[야당의 힘이 너무 거셀 때는]