Mafia

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If you can hobble or wheel yourself onto the ferry, you may be lucky enough to join the mafia-like gangs trading in cheap clothes, alcohol and cigarettes.
如果你能跌跌撞撞地，或者坐著輪椅進(jìn)渡船，你可能會幸運(yùn)地看到類似黑手黨的一幫人，有賣便宜的衣服，也有賣煙酒的。
Large areas of Guatemala—including some of its prisons—are out of the government’s control; and, despite the efforts of its president, the government is infiltrated by the mafia.
危地馬拉的大部分地區(qū)——包括一部分監(jiān)獄——不受政府控制；黑手黨滲入了政府機(jī)構(gòu)，雖然總統(tǒng)竭力避免這種狀況。
He points to plans for yet more casinos and public buildings, including a Mafia museum that is now a symbol of the misuse of federal stimulus money.
他提到仍計(jì)劃興建更多的賭場和共用建筑，包括一座黑手黨的展覽館。但這座展覽館現(xiàn)在已成了濫用聯(lián)邦刺激方案資金的象征。

Italian police released the group, saying they did not find what they were looking for - leaders of the Russian mafia.
We're Coca-Cola and Pepsi, so we really don't want to have to bring the mafia in, Although maybe we do, I don't know.
我們是可口可樂和百事可樂公司,我們都不想將黑手黨卷進(jìn)來,可能也希望他們介入吧,誰知道呢
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It's the purpose of the mafia.
這是黑手黨的做法
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The Mafia is a criminal organization that makes money illegally, especially by threatening people and dealing in drugs.
You can use mafia to refer to an organized group of people who you disapprove of because they use unfair or illegal means in order to get what they want.