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Prison Break 1《越獄》1(精講之九)
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[ 2007-02-25 19:10 ]

影片對白  That makes it okay? I turned my back on him because I didn't want to make waves. It was just... easier... to look the other way... keep the plan safe.

我觀之我見  在這個(gè)弱肉強(qiáng)食的世界里,生存不僅要靠技術(shù)和手段,還要有堅(jiān)定的信念。無論是在監(jiān)獄內(nèi)外,這條道理都適用。

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3. Turn one's back on

"拒絕,忽略,背棄,拋棄"的意思,例如:I can't turn my back on my own daughter, no matter what she's done.

4. Make waves

"(詰問,拒絕接受已存在的事實(shí)因而)挑起事端,引發(fā)爭端"的意思,例如:We've finally settled our differences, so please don't make waves.

5. in a heartbeat
意為"without hesitation",例如:You'd better think over what I said. I can kill you in a heartbeat.

6. Yesterday's news

"昨天的新聞"會(huì)是什么樣的新聞?從時(shí)效性上來說,當(dāng)然是已經(jīng)過時(shí)的、無關(guān)緊要的了。Yesterday's news means "irrelevant",Gus 的意思是 Abruzzi從此和監(jiān)獄工廠再?zèng)]有關(guān)系了。

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Prison industry in the U. S. 美國的監(jiān)獄產(chǎn)業(yè)

Prison Break 1《越獄》1(精講之九)Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a system of "hiring out prisoners" was introduced in order to continue the slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else's land in exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery - which were almost never proven - and were then "hired out" for cotton picking, working in mines and building railroads. From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88% of hired-out convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93% of "hired-out" miners were Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts. The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972.

During the post-Civil War period, Jim Crow racial segregation laws were imposed on every state, with legal segregation in schools, housing, marriages and many other aspects of daily life. "Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex," comments the Left Business Observer.

Prison Break 1《越獄》1(精講之九)Who is investing? At least 37 states have legalized the contracting of prison labor by private corporations that mount their operations inside state prisons. The list of such companies contains the cream of U.S. corporate society: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more. All of these businesses are excited about the economic boom generation by prison labor. Just between 1980 and 1994, profits went up from $392 million to $1.31 billion. Inmates in state penitentiaries generally receive the minimum wage for their work, but not all; in Colorado, they get about $2 per hour, well under the minimum. And in privately-run prisons, they receive as little as 17 cents per hour for a maximum of six hours a day, the equivalent of $20 per month. The highest-paying private prison is CCA in Tennessee, where prisoners receive 50 cents per hour for what they call "highly skilled positions." At those rates, it is no surprise that inmates find the pay in federal prisons to be very generous. There, they can earn $1.25 an hour and work eight hours a day, and sometimes overtime. They can send home $200-$300 per month.

Thanks to prison labor, the United States is once again an attractive location for investment in work that was designed for Third World labor markets. A company that operated a maquiladora (assembly plant in Mexico near the border) closed down its operations there and relocated to San Quentin State Prison in California. In Texas, a factory fired its 150 workers and contracted the services of prisoner-workers from the private Lockhart Texas prison, where circuit boards are assembled for companies like IBM and Compaq.

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