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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.
[01:23.96]也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.
[01:26.39]Six hundred years ago,
[01:27.92]600年前，
[01:29.44]Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers
[01:32.53]约翰.霍克伍德爵士带着一队士兵来到意大利,
[01:35.61]and settled near Florence.
[01:37.54]在佛罗伦萨附近驻扎下来
[01:39.47]He soon made a name for himself
[01:41.24]他很快就出了名.
[01:43.00]and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto.
[01:46.38]意大利人叫他乔凡尼.阿库托.
[01:49.77]Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other
[01:52.25]每次意大利各城邦之间打仗,
[01:54.73]Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes
[01:57.21]霍克伍德便把他的士兵雇佣给君主们,
[01:59.69]who were willing to pay the high price he demanded.
[02:01.87]他们情愿付出他所要的高价.
[02:04.06]In times of peace,when business was bad,
[02:06.29]和平时期,当生意萧条时,
[02:08.52]Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state,
[02:11.25]霍克伍德便带领士兵进入某个城邦,
[02:13.98]and after burning down a few farms,
[02:16.16]纵火烧毁一两个农场,
[02:18.34]would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them.
[02:21.17]然后提出,如向他们缴纳保护金,他们便主动撤离
[02:23.99]Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way.
[02:26.32]霍克伍德用这种方法挣了大笔钱.
[02:28.66]In spite of this,the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero.
[02:31.64]尽管如此,意大利人还是把他视作某种英雄.
[02:34.62]When he died at the age of eighty
[02:36.75]他80岁那年死去时
[02:38.88]the Florentines gave him a state funeral
[02:41.54]佛罗伦萨人为他举行了国葬,
[02:44.21]and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory
[02:46.87]并为他画像以纪念
[02:49.53]of the most valiant soldier and most notable leader
[02:52.17]这位"骁勇无比的战士、杰出的领袖乔凡尼.
[02:54.81]Signor Giovanni Haukodue'.
[02:57.03]阿库托先生".
[02:59.25]This is the analysis of the text.以下为课文讲解
[04:14.89]以下为课文讲解。
[05:30.53]Part 1
[08:10.19]Part 2
[11:04.74]Part 3