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新概念英语3--(一天学一篇)---课14

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226. There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.'8 A, x3 ^8 U9 q; M$ i2 m6 @( i
        曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取'保护'。
( e1 t' }% D$ @! ^/ g$ L227. If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop.
- D2 O  `, D! @) [4 w0 d        如果交款不及时,歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,让他破产.
; E$ d3 O: Z' `# k4 s) L4 e228. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime.
  U  B) d; G& X. Z7 P. B        榨取'保护金'并不是一种现代的罪恶行径.5 i- q2 P8 b4 M' {  h9 }+ Y) h; R1 q
229. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery4 _3 Q2 r$ F! h% K3 H6 V% r& L
        早在14世纪,英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现:* w9 Y. R. l3 j' o( O
230. that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.4 S2 m$ T8 u$ I* Z( ]# N
        '人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.& I! `3 Q6 k- I9 m6 k  }9 I
231. Six hundred years ago, Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence.3 f8 k5 A$ D# z! R4 E. q; j
        600年前,约翰.霍克伍德爵士带着一队士兵来到意大利,在佛罗伦萨附近驻扎下来,
9 Y6 K2 ]# d1 M0 W2 K' n/ D9 a232. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto.! v5 l0 ]( O4 j6 U, ]+ _
        很快就出了名.意大利人叫他乔凡尼.阿库托.
) d$ c, V9 A* ~$ g- }( O233. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other,' E/ H* d/ o0 h% p
        每次意大利各城邦之间打伏,
0 M. N8 O+ L' Y$ r- s$ u234. Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded., M: P0 j! `& [/ |
        霍克伍德把他的士兵雇佣给愿给他出高价的君主。0 \6 r8 d  f$ e7 K
235. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and,
' u2 l+ _8 X; P/ s% Z        和平时期,当生意萧条时,霍克伍德便带领士兵进入某个城邦,
1 t' E1 \! A/ t2 B) h236. after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them.; A) W! C/ K' C9 W' O4 p! m8 w
        纵火烧毁一两个农场,然后提出,如向他们缴纳保护金,他们便主动撤离。7 y9 j- v7 _, C9 k8 v# n
237. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way.
. J9 I9 s% w/ K1 s0 G        霍克伍德用这种方法挣了大笔钱.
3 I0 [- N, e0 c$ n. d238. In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero.: t# v7 s8 I  i( G; ?" l. B
        尽管如此,意大利人还是把他视作某种英雄。
$ M& Q" r. z5 X0 o( T0 Z239. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral
( Y9 |# p7 a( P% A        他80岁那年死去时,佛罗伦萨人为他举行了国葬,- q/ l2 V0 A% \0 a, {
240. and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.'% Z5 c3 p. ?# I* l; ~
        并为他画像以纪念这位'骁勇无比的战士、杰出的领袖乔凡尼.阿库托先生.'
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