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[00:08.25]14 贵族歹徒
[00:16.51]Listen to the tape then answer the question below
[00:19.24]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:21.97]How did Hawkwood make money in times of peace?
[00:28.25]霍克伍德在和平时期是如何挣钱的?
[00:34.53]There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago
[00:37.71]曾经有一个时期,芝加n的店主和商行的老板们
[00:40.88]had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection'.
[00:44.46]不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取"保护"
[00:48.04]If the money was not paid promptly,
[00:50.12]如果交款不及时,
[00:52.19]the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop.
[00:55.58]歹徒们就会很快捣毁他的商店,让他破产
[00:58.96]Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime.
[01:01.69]榨取"保护金"并不是一种现代的罪恶行径.
[01:04.42]As long ago as the fourteenth century,
[01:06.55]早在14世纪
[01:08.68]an Englishman,Sir John Hawkwood,
[01:11.01]英国人约翰.霍克伍德爵士
[01:13.35]made the remarkable discovery
[01:15.12]就有过非凡的发现:
[01:16.88]that people would rather pay large sums of money
[01:19.20]人们情愿拿出大笔的钱
[01:21.53]than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.