新概念第三册经典句子 第14课:A Noble Gangster

1、 There was a time when theowners of shops and businesses in Chicagohad to pay large sums of money to gangsters in returnfor ‘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"。

2、 If the money was not paid promptly,the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business bydestroying 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

3、 As long agoas the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir JohnHawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather paylarge 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.
这里是 rather…than.. 的搭配而不是would rather

4、 He soon madea name for himself and came to be known to the Italiansas Giovanni Acuto.
他很快就使自己出了名，而且渐渐地以Giovanni Acuto这个名字为意大利人所熟悉。

5、 …, wouldoffer to go away if protection money was paid to them.
   然后提出,如向他们缴纳保护金,他们便主动撤离。