伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day124L14-2 20190208

练习材料:

L14(2)：A noble gangster

Six hundred years ago,

Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence.

He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto.

Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other,

Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded.

In times of peace,

when business was bad,

Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and,

after burning down a few farms,

would offer to go away protection money was paid to them.

Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way.

In spite of this,

the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero.

When he died at the age of eighty,

the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a pictured painted with as dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：funeral/fjuːnərəl    dedicated/dɛdɪkeɪtɪd    valiant/væliənt   

练习感悟：比较长的一个篇幅，早上一大早朗读完毕，白天和同学去了外地旅行，晚间回来已经是比较晚了。头一回过了午夜12点才录制好音频。