mafia
mafia 英 [ˈmɑ:fɪɑ:] 美 [ˈmɑfɪˌɑ]
n. 黑手党；（意）秘密政党
名词复数:mafias
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- n. 黑手党；（意）秘密政党
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1. It will be 'a decree to take the gold sector, ' which still remains in the hands of a 'mafia and smugglers, ' he said.
查韦斯说，这将是一项接管黄金产业的法令。 这一产业目前仍在黑手党和走私贩的控制下。
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2. If the mafia were to establish itself as an effective force in this country, it would do so by way of the waste disposal industry.
如果黑手党想让自己在这个国家里成为一股有影响力的势力，那么垃圾处理业是一个发家致富的好路子。
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3. He was charged with mafia collusion, tax fraud, false accounting, corruption and bribery of police officers.
他被警方指控犯勾结黑手党、税务欺诈、作假帐和贪污行贿的罪名。
- mafia (n.) 1875, from Italian Mafia "Sicilian secret society of criminals" (the prevailing sense outside Sicily), earlier, "spirit of hostility to the law and its ministers," from Italian (Sicilian) mafia "boldness, bravado," probably from Arabic mahjas "aggressive, boasting, bragging." Or perhaps from Old French mafler "to gluttonize, devour." A member is a mafioso (1870), fem. mafiosa, plural mafiosi.
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