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.
音標:?l14(1)：? ?n??bl ?g??st?
ee? w?z ? ta?m w?n ei ???n?z ?v ??ps ?nd ?b?zn?s?z ?n ???kɑ?g?? e?t tu? pe? lɑ?? s?mz ?v ?m?ni tu? ?g??st?z ?n r??t??n f?? pr??t?k??n.' ?f e? ?m?ni w?z n?t pe?d ?pr?mptli, e? ?g??st?z w?d ?kw?kli p?t ? m?n a?t ?v ?b?zn?s ba? d?s?tr???? h?z ??p. ?b?te?n?? pr??t?k??n ?m?ni ?z n?t ? ?m?d?n kra?m. ?z l?? ??g?? ?z e? ?f???ti?nθ ?s?n??ri, ?n ???gl??m?n, s?? ??n Hawkwood, me?d e? r??mɑ?k?bl d?s?k?v?ri e?t ?pi?pl w?d ?rɑ?e? pe? lɑ?? s?mz ?v ?m?ni e?n h?v ee? la?f w??k d?s?tr??d ba? ?g??st?z.
任務配置:L0+L4
知識筆記:1.gangster/?g??st?/歹徒遭殉，強盜
2.Chicago/???kɑ?g??/芝加哥(美國城市)
3.protection保護
4.promptly/?pr?mptli/及時地
5.in return for…作為…的報答講
6.out of business倒閉赶掖，破產(chǎn)
7.as long ago as 作“追溯到”、“早在”講
8.remarkable不尋常的
band幫剿涮，團伙
練習感悟:1.聽Scalers cast練習朗讀英文的過程中照弥，對其重新定義铛绰，有人學英文學進去出不來。學習一種語言产喉，開啟認識視角的新認知。
