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课文14 贵族歹徒
. n* [% d/ }- s: u; [$ G226. 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 x6 ^$ b4 c% m K0 }
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'。
" w" O. p8 Q, _227. If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop.
- c2 f: O7 o/ z7 a# t& R 如果交款不及时,歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,让他破产.8 N- E% O1 t4 x. E* H
228. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime.
2 ~3 y0 A/ G5 I; H7 c- [7 V/ J* G 榨取'保护金'并不是一种现代的罪恶行径.& W3 u! @5 U. ~& H( K7 b
229. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery: \) M4 G# I) i9 [+ }5 m: E. q
早在14世纪,英国人约翰.霍克伍德就有过非凡的发现:* }& D/ q- F4 p- Q# H* G
230. that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.! x0 ^6 u0 {" I7 u
'人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.% K7 \4 \9 Y4 l1 @) [! ^
231. Six hundred years ago, Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence.
! Z$ C! [; u: j) e4 W 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,4 U: S6 v) o# G3 u) Y% Z/ G
232. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto.) M2 N7 [& j& }* n
很快就出了名.意大利人叫他乔凡尼.阿库托.
1 \0 k' l$ f5 }$ W233. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other,
' k0 ^+ g! ]) n0 D! p 每次意大利各城邦之间打伏,/ D7 G3 C t# R4 a: M
234. Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded.; h% ^8 z" Q t! {* M9 I9 K0 i
霍克伍德把他的士兵雇佣给愿给他出高价的君主。' R% V) j7 H5 e1 r
235. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and,2 T% j4 e: S! \9 t3 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,( y( n1 N0 C8 Q/ F& }
236. after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them.' n" j) ?* o0 h1 A7 H% K* M5 l& p2 O- p
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。
3 j0 b/ w4 a; N237. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way.
8 L! v) f% V Q3 o* ]6 A 霍克伍德用这种方法挣了大笔钱.' T# E0 A4 u+ a; e f1 e& B# ]
238. In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero.- i8 N% E6 t- B, e. e. P( m* d+ D
尽管如此,意大利人还是把他视作某种英雄。
9 w. w, B- B! [- U( q) U' ]- T% L239. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral- e; u( |: h v6 p- ^
他80岁那年死去时,佛罗伦萨人为他举行了国葬,+ ^7 V0 N$ V J
240. and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.'
/ w9 }% Z' O0 p, D0 v. q 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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