原版英语对话1000个:546 Gangs
时间：2019-02-06 作者：英语课 分类：原版英语对话1000个
Todd: Jeanie, you are from Philadelphia, correct?
Jeanie: Yep.
Todd: Now is Philadelphia a safe city? Do you have lots of crime?
Jeanie: Yeah, we've got lots of crime. Depending on the area where you are. Um, where I grew up, I lived in a black ghetto 1 where there was like gun shooting at least three times a week. Usually it was, it had to do with conflicts between African Americans and Jamacians, um, pretty territorial 2. Basically, the African Americans were there first and when the Jamacians moved in they decided 3 that they wanted to take over so lots of wars going on along with that.
Todd: That's pretty scary.
Jeanie: Yeah, so.
Todd: How did you get along? How did you survive or..?
Jeanie: Um, well, I've always been to myself for the most part. A lot of people in the neighborhood, thought I was very strange because anytime you ever saw me I was walking around reading a book or something like that. I didn't have any friends, because everyone would always say I was too smart to hang with them or something like that, so yeah, I basically just kept to myself. When people wanted to fight me, instead of mouthing off which is a very big part of it, I would just sit there and say OK, let's fight and they didn't understand that kind of thing. They felt like, no we have to argue first, so I didn't encourage arguing and so they would feel intimidated 4 just by feeling that maybe there was something more to me than they knew about.
Todd: Wow! You're brave. You were saying earlier though that there is also a serious problem with Asian gangs.
Jeanie: Yeah, in the neighborhood we moved into, I moved out of my old neighborhood when I was about 17, so my new neighborhood, we don't have so much of the African Americans versus 5 the Jamacains, we have Korean gangs, and they're often at odds 6 with the Hispanics.
Todd: Man!
Jeanie: Yeah, so not so much gun shooting. I don't really hear so much about guns in that area, but lots of knives and robberies and such things.
Todd: Now do you think you have a solution to solve the problem, that we can get rid of these gangs. Is it just the poverty, or?
Jeanie: It has a lot to do with the poverty, but a lot of it also is the image that these people are striving to achieve. They do rely heavily on Hip-hop, the Hip-hop culture. They feel like in order to be really cool, they've got to due this stuff that they see on TV.
Todd: Ah, so it's like a peer pressure thing. Not a peer pressure, it's an image thing.
Jeanie: Mm, very much an image thing.
Todd: Wow.
Jeanie: And sometimes the only way to survive is to actually join a gang so that you don't get hurt from just someone not liking 7 you.
Todd: Wow. Well, you have a very candid 8 views and stories to tell so thank you very much
Jeanie: No worries.
- Racism and crime still flourish in the ghetto.城市贫民区的种族主义和犯罪仍然十分猖獗。
- I saw that achievement as a possible pattern for the entire ghetto.我把获得的成就看作整个黑人区可以仿效的榜样。
- The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。
- They were not allowed to fish in our territorial waters.不允许他们在我国领海捕鱼。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- We try to make sure children don't feel intimidated on their first day at school. 我们努力确保孩子们在上学的第一天不胆怯。
- The thief intimidated the boy into not telling the police. 这个贼恫吓那男孩使他不敢向警察报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
- The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
- The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
- Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？
- The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
- I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。