[오늘 한 영어]
- The art of money getting
- AVOID DEBT
- Young men starting in life shouold avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anthing that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get in, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his "teens," running in debt. He meets a chum and says, "Look at this: I have got trusted for a new suit of clothes." He seems to look upon the clothes as so much given to him; well, it frequently is so, but, if he succeeds in paying and then gets trusted again, he is adopting a habit which will keep him in poverty through life. Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself. Grunting and groaning and working for what he has eaten up or worn out, and now when he is called upon to pay up, he has nothing to show for his money; this is properly termed "working for a dead horse." I do not speak of merchants buying and selling on credit, or of those who buy on credit in order to turn the purchase to a profit. The old Quaker said to his farmer son, "John, never get trusted; but if thee gets trusted for anthing, let it be for 'manure,' becuase that will help thee pay it back again."
- chum: (명) 친구
- poverty: (명) 가난, 비곤, 부족
- despise: (동사) 경멸하다
- grunt: (동) 꿀꿀거리다. 끙 앓는 소리를 내다. (명) 저임금 단순 작업 노동자
- groan: (동) 신음하다. 낮게 탄성을 지르다. (명) 신음, 끙 하는 소리
- trust: (동) 신뢰하다. 믿다.
- thee: (대명사) you 와 동일한 의미의 방언
- manure: (명사) 거름 (동사) 거름을 주다
