大学英语自学教程 下册 un04

[10:52.96]doesn't solve the causes of crime,
[10:54.94]解决不了犯罪的诱因,
[10:56.93]such as poverty or disaffection within society.
[10:59.20]如社会的贫穷或不满.
[11:01.47]What it does is punish prisoners for the ills of society.
[11:04.01]这样做就是因为社会的病态而惩罚罪犯.
[11:06.54]They say the practice takes the United States back to the Middle Ages,
[11:09.17]他们说这种行为会把美国带回中世纪,
[11:11.79]and that it is a shame to American society.
[11:13.97]这是美国社会的耻辱.
[11:16.15]But that's not an argument likely to win favour
[11:20.52]among many people in the Deep South of the United States.
[11:22.84]但这种争论不大可能记得美国南方腹地人们的支持.
[11:25.17]Alabama's experiment is to be widened to include more prisoners,
[11:27.96]阿拉马州的实验(这种惩罚方式)将要被推广到更大多囚犯向上.
[11:30.76]and other States,such as Arkansas and Arizona,
[11:33.28]其他州,诸如阿肯钯州和亚利桑那州,
[11:35.80]will very probably introduce their own chain gang schemes.
[11:38.37]很可能要推行他们自己的为囚犯锁上铁链的计划.