mafia是什么意思

双语例句

(1)Members of the mafia gradually faded out of the sight of public.

该帮派的成员逐渐淡出了人们的视线。

(2)The Mafia is a secret social organization that originated in Italy.

黑手党是发源于意大利的一个秘密社会组织。

(3)The mafia was arrested by the police in the border area.

这个团伙在边境地区被警方一举抓捕。

(4)A Mafia Museum was inaugurated in Corleone.

一座黑手党博物馆在科莱奥内举行落成典礼。

(5)The Mafia is by no means ignored by Italian television.

黑手党是意大利电视绝不会放过的关注对象。

(6)The gunman had been hired by a rival Mafia family to do the dirty deed.

该杀手被敌对的黑手党家族雇来干这件卑鄙的勾当。

(7)Several local officials are in jail on charges of colluding with the Mafia.

几位地方官员因涉嫌串通黑手党而锒铛入狱。

(8)He speaks with rage of insinuations that there's a "gay mafia" in Hollywood.

他愤怒的放言影射好莱坞有一个“同性恋黑手党”。

同义词

n. 黑手党；秘密政党

释义

n.

an organized international body of criminals, operating originally in Sicily and now especially in Italy and the US and having a complex and ruthless behavioural code

黑手党（有组织的国际犯罪集团，原在意大利西西里活动，现多在意大利和美国活动，定有复杂而严酷的帮规）。

(一般作mafia)any similar group using extortion and other criminal methods

（使用敲诈等犯罪方法的）黑手党式犯罪组织。

(一般作mafia)a group that is regarded as exerting a hidden sinister influence

（被认为能施加危险的潜在影响的）秘密社团，无形集团

the British literary mafia.

英国文学秘密社团。

词源

" Italian （Sicilian dialect）, originally in the sense ‘bragging’. "

(1)What do you think? I think we've got the mafia here.

你觉得呢？我觉得这简直是黑手党的行径。《The Good Wife Season 5》《傲骨贤妻 第五季》

(2)Oh, well, it's really cool. You fly to Moscow, they take you out to Kazakhstan, and then you get into a Russian Soyuz rocket which shoots you into a low earth orbit. Or just sits there on the launch pad because the Kazakhi mafia sold the rocket fuel on the black market.

这个过程就酷了，你先飞到莫斯科 然后他们带你去哈萨克斯坦，然后你再登上一个俄罗斯联盟号火箭，直接冲上低空地球轨道，又或是你只能呆坐在火箭发射台上，因为哈萨克黑手党把火箭燃料都拿到黑市上去卖了。《The Big Bang Theory Season 5》《生活大爆炸 第五季》