时间:2018-11-27 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第四册


英语课

  Lesson9 Police Life

The average citizen in the United States has very little personal contact with the police. Contacts most frequently occur in two contexts: Americans sometimes approach a policeman to ask for street directions; and police sometimes stop a motorist for speeding or some other traffic violation 1. Neither of these situations is usually violent or life-threatening.

However, the life of a policeman in a large American city can be both violent and life-threatening almost on a daily basis. This is especially true for police assigned to patrol the poorest sections of the city where most violent crimes take place. Here police routinely come in contact with drug dealers 2, armed robbers, muggers and the like.

If a policeman is exposed for too long a period of time to these types of people from the lowest level of society, they run the risk of being injured or of developing a prejudice against all the residents of the poor districts of the city. For this reason, the police chief regularly changes policemen's assignments so that they can escape from the tension and danger of patrols in the ghetto 3. These other assignments might be deskwork or controlling traffic.

patrol 巡逻

mugger 行凶抢劫者

ghetto 少数民族聚居的地区,贫民区

警察生活

美国普通民众很少与警察有私人接触。大多数接触经常发生在两种情境下:找警察问路时,和因驾车超速或违反其他交通规则被警察拦停时。

通常这些情形都不会有暴力发生,也不会危及生命。

然而,美国大城市里的警察生活几乎每天都面临暴力和生命危险。对于负责巡逻暴力犯罪多发的城市最贫穷地区的警察来说,尤其如此。这里和警察日常打交道的都是毒品贩子、带武器的抢劫犯、走私犯和诸如此类的人。

如果一个警察太长时间置身于这类来自社会最底层的人员之中,他们会有受伤或对城市里贫困街区的居民形成偏见的危险。正因如此,警察局长定期调整警察的任务,让他们远离巡逻贫民区的压力和危险。其他任务有可能是文书工作或交通监管。



1 violation
n.违反(行为),违背(行为),侵犯
  • He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说,那是违反规则的。
  • He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。
2 dealers
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败,与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
3 ghetto
n.少数民族聚居区,贫民区
  • 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。
学英语单词
account of exchequer
achyranthine
acl-deficient
active bias circuit
acute bleedingerosive gastritis
adenopathies
Alexanderite Lasers
alpine goldenrod
american society mechanical engineers
amplitude-modulation communication system
arabness
bastinite (hureaulite)
be sadly mistaken
beps
beryllium ethide
BNOC
body-snatchers
camshaft gear and servomotor
chondrogenic zone
clavie
Clitorido
congenital microphthalmus
Cripps Corner
datively
decidabe subclass
dendrium
dinelli
Discovery Sound
Disraeli, Benjamin
DMC (digital microcircuit)
do the agreeable
e-knee
economic indices of hydropower station
encite
export market development programme
Faddoi
field emission electron image
finger wear
glacial retreat
gm-cfc
Goyaesque
Gånghester
hemp canvas
in-plane vibration
inspection of accounts
kebob
Kevin Mitnick
lammiela
linfante
lobotomization
lockedseam
long haul fare
mannoheptitol
mechanostable
momentary gods
mosaic soil
motor vehicle accident
move apart
National Television Standards Committee
np product
occluded gas
open end roll
overflow check program
P-V state
Pangutaran
parakaliella venusta
partial polarized light
port administration
positional operators
primary dermal leishmaniasis
principal program path
raise the hoof
reales
receiving notice
reflecting element
ring traveller
Roman blind
rotor motor
runs by
scare the hell out of
self guidance
Software Modeling
solid state software
spawn kills
spooled input processing
Stewart, Mt.
stricture of common bile duct
subnasal points
take out after
telepalhine
temperature error
Terpieol
Thompson machine
timberjack
times have changed
total reproduction rate
unrefuted
value on exchange
white glove test
wurtewale
yoks
zazzy