15.다음 글의 제목으로 적절한 것은? Currency debasement of a good money by a bad money version occurred via coins of a high percentage of precious metal, reissued at lower percentages of gold or silver diluted with a lower value metal. This adulteration drove out the good coin for the bad coin. No one spent the good coin, they kept it, hence the good coin was driven out of circulation and into a hoard. Meanwhile the issuer, normally a king who had lost his treasure on interminable warfare and other such dissolute living, was behind the move. They collected all the good old coins they could, melted them down and reissued them at lower purity and pocketed the balance. It was often illegal to keep the old stuff back but people did, while the king replenished his treasury, at least for a time.

어휘 · 표현이 문항에서 챙길 9개

• debasement가치 저하·품질 저하상

  다른 뜻 · debase = 값어치를 떨어뜨리다

  Currency debasement of a good money by a bad money version occurred via coins of a high percentage of precious metal.좋은 화폐가 나쁜 화폐로 바뀌는 화폐 가치 저하는 귀금속 함량이 높던 주화를 통해 일어났다.

• dilute묽게 하다·희석하다중

  reissued at lower percentages of gold or silver diluted with a lower value metal값싼 금속을 섞어 금이나 은의 비율을 낮춰 다시 발행된

• adulteration불순물 섞기·품질 저하상

  This adulteration drove out the good coin for the bad coin.이 불순물 섞기가 좋은 주화를 몰아내고 나쁜 주화를 남겼다.

• drive out몰아내다·쫓아내다중

  This adulteration drove out the good coin for the bad coin.이 불순물 섞기가 좋은 주화를 몰아냈다.

• circulation유통·순환중

  다른 뜻 · (신문의) 발행 부수 · 혈액 순환

  the good coin was driven out of circulation and into a hoard좋은 주화는 유통에서 밀려나 쌓여 갔다

• hoard쌓아 둔 것·비축상

  다른 뜻 · (동사) 사재기하다

  the good coin was driven out of circulation and into a hoard좋은 주화는 유통에서 밀려나 쌓여 갔다

• interminable끝없는·한없이 계속되는상

  a king who had lost his treasure on interminable warfare끝없는 전쟁으로 재물을 잃은 왕

• dissolute방탕한상

  a king who had lost his treasure on interminable warfare and other such dissolute living끝없는 전쟁과 그 밖의 방탕한 생활로 재물을 잃은 왕

• replenish다시 채우다·보충하다상

  the king replenished his treasury, at least for a time왕은 적어도 한동안은 국고를 채웠다