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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
        뉴스 듣기
                             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
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