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TOPIC 05 23만 달러에 팔린 경호견
Guard dog

sells for $230,000

한 경호견이 엄청난 가격에 거래되었다는 뉴스입니다. 독일산 셰퍼드 줄리아가 다른 경호견들의 평균
시세보다 훨씬 더 높은 가격에 거래된 이유가 무엇인지 잘 듣고 이야기해 봅시다.

Pre-study Three-year-old German shepherd Julia is anything but
your typical guard dog. To begin with, she was trained
뉴스 내용을 잘 듣고,
따라 읽어 보세요. to be an “executive protection dog” for three years in
Germany and then sent to South Carolina to receive
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additional “family dog” training. But most astonishing
of all, she came with a price tag of $230,000.
Harrison Prather, the president of Harrison K-9
Security Services, is an expert in training guard dogs,
and he used to sell his highly trained animals to elite
military units like the Navy Seals and the British Special
Forces. However, he discovered that selling them to rich
people was a more lucrative business. On average, his
trained pedigree dogs sell for $40,000 to $60,000.

•guard dog 경호견
(= protection dog)
•anything but
(강조하며) 결코 ~가 아닌
•to begin with 우선
•executive
고급의, 특수한 용도의
•price tag 가격표
•highly trained
아주 잘 훈련된
•military unit 군 부대
•lucrative 수익성이 좋은
•pedigree 혈통