伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料:

L14(1)：A noble gangster

There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago that to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.'

If the money was not paid promptly,

the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop.

Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime.

As long ago as the fourteenth century,

an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood,

made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：gangster/gæŋstə   protection/prəˈtɛkʃən   promptly/prɒmptli   crime/kraɪm

练习感悟：今天重新恢复了五点起床，第14课第一部分课文不长，难度不大，搞定。