| 歌曲 | Lesson 14 A noble gangster |
| 歌手 | 英语听力 |
| 专辑 | 新概念英语(第三册) |
| [00:01.080] | --- lesson 14 A noble gangster |
| [00:06.200] | --- Listen to the tape then answer the question below. |
| [00:12.000] | --- How did Hawkwood make money in times of peace? |
| [00:17.640] | 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'. |
| [00:28.200] | If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. |
| [00:36.800] | Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime. |
| [00:41.440] | As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery |
| [00:49.560] | that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.^ |
| [00:55.960] | Six hundred years ago, Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence.^600 |
| [01:04.160] | He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. |
| [01:11.800] | Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, |
| [01:15.400] | Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. |
| [01:22.040] | In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, |
| [01:29.800] | after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them. |
| [01:36.240] | Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way. |
| [01:40.320] | In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero. |
| [01:45.440] | When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral |
| [01:51.640] | and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue'. |
| [00:01.080] | guì zú dǎi tú |
| [00:06.200] | tīng lù yīn, rán hòu huí dá yǐ xià wèn tí. |
| [00:12.000] | |
| [00:17.640] | céng jīng yǒu yí gè shí qī, zhī jiā gē de diàn zhǔ hé shāng háng de lǎo bǎn men bù dé bù ná chū dà bǐ de qián gěi dǎi tú yǐ huàn qǔ' bǎo hù'. |
| [00:28.200] | rú guǒ jiāo kuǎn bù jí shí, dǎi tú men jiù huì hěn kuài dǎo huǐ tā de shāng diàn, ràng tā pò chǎn. |
| [00:36.800] | zhà qǔ' bǎo hù jīn' bìng bú shì yī zhǒng xiàn dài de zuì è xíng jìng. |
| [00:41.440] | zǎo zài 14 shì jì, yīng guó rén yuē hàn. huò kè wǔ dé jiù yǒu guò fēi fán de fā xiàn: |
| [00:49.560] | ' rén men qíng yuàn ná chū dà bǐ de qián, yě bù yuàn bì shēng de xīn xuè huǐ yú dǎi tú zhī shǒu. |
| [00:55.960] | nián qián, yuē hàn. huò kè wǔ dé jué shì dài zhe yī duì shì bīng lái dào yì dà lì, zài fó luó lún sà fù jìn zhù zhā xià lái, |
| [01:04.160] | hěn kuài jiù chū le míng. yì dà lì rén jiào tā qiáo fán ní. ā kù tuō. |
| [01:11.800] | měi cì yì dà lì gè chéng bāng zhī jiān dǎ fú, |
| [01:15.400] | huò kè wǔ dé biàn bǎ tā dí shì bīng gù yōng gěi yuàn gěi tā chū gāo jià de jūn zhǔ. |
| [01:22.040] | hé píng shí qī, dāng shēng yì xiāo tiáo shí, huò kè wǔ dé biàn dài lǐng shì bīng jìn rù mǒu gè chéng bāng, |
| [01:29.800] | zòng huǒ shāo huǐ yī liǎng gè nóng chǎng, rán hòu tí chū, rú xiàng tā men jiǎo nà bǎo hù jīn, tā men biàn zhǔ dòng chè lí. |
| [01:36.240] | huò kè wǔ dé yòng zhè zhǒng fāng fǎ zhēng le dà bǐ qián. |
| [01:40.320] | jǐn guǎn rú cǐ, yì dà lì rén hái shì bǎ tā shì zuò mǒu zhǒng yīng xióng. |
| [01:45.440] | tā 80 suì nà nián sǐ qù shí, fó luó lún sà rén wéi tā jǔ xíng le guó zàng, |
| [01:51.640] | bìng wèi tā huà xiàng yǐ jì niàn zhè wèi" xiāo yǒng wú bǐ de zhàn shì jié chū de lǐng xiù qiáo fán ní. ā kù tuō xiān shēng". |
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