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自学新三第14课:贵族歹徒

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　　Lesson 14 A Noble Gangster

　　第14课 贵族歹徒

　　There was a time

　　(when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago)

　　that to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.'

　　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"。

　　(这一句的结构应该怎么理解呢?请留言讨论)

　　If the money was not paid promptly,

　　the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop.

　　如果交款不及时,

　　歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,让他破产.

　　Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime.

　　榨取"保护金"并不是一种现代的罪恶行径.

　　As long ago as the fourteenth century,

　　an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood,(同位语做主语)

　　made the remarkable discovery

　　that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.

　　早在14 世纪,

　　英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现:

　　"人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.

　　Six hundred years ago,

　　Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy

　　with a band of soldiers

　　and settled near Florence.

　　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,

　　He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto.

　　很快就出了名.

　　意大利人叫他乔凡尼.阿库托.

　　Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other,

　　Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes

　　who were willing to pay the high price he demanded.

　　每次意大利各城邦之间打伏,

　　霍克伍德把他的士兵雇佣给

　　愿给他出高价的君主。

　　In times of peace, when business was bad,

　　Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and,

　　after burning down a few farms,

　　would offer to go away protection money was paid to them.

　　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,

　　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。

　　Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way.

　　In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero.

　　霍克伍德用这种方法挣了大笔钱.

　　尽管如此,意大利人还是把他视作某种英雄。

　　When he died at the age of eighty,

　　the Florentines gave him a state funeral

　　and had a pictured with as dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.'

　　他80 岁那年死去时,

　　佛罗伦萨人为他举行了国葬,

　　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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