Mafia

Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia.

赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党.

He swore to avenge himself on the mafia.

他发誓说要向黑手党报仇.

the Mafia and its offshoots

黑手党组织及其分支

He had passed his medical exams through the good offices of the most important Mafia chief in Sicily who had made a special trip to Palermo to confer with taza's professors about what grades they should give him.

他之所以医学考试及格，就是因为西西里最举足轻重的黑帮头头给他开后门。那个黑帮头头专程到巴勒莫去找塔查的老师谈判，看他们应该给塔查定个什么等级。

So regardless in the mafia the persons of the white way all heard his name and avoid to hate him very much.

所以无论在黑道白道的人都听过他的名字并且非常避忌他。

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

一个敌对的黑手党家族雇用了那个枪手来实施这一卑劣行动。

It would be surprising were the Mafia not to have muscled in.

如果黑手党不插上一脚，那反倒令人奇怪了。

A cabinet minister came under investigation for links to the Mafia.

一位内阁大臣因被怀疑与黑手党有关联而受到调查。

Mafia boss Vito Corleone, as played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather, has been named the greatest movie character of all time by US film critics.

由马龙·白兰度在影片《教父》中饰演的黑手党首领维多·柯里昂被美国电影评论家们评为有史以来最伟大的电影人物形象。

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

他含沙射影地怒称好莱坞有一个“同性恋黑手党”。

This wealth of evidence is perilous to the Mafia.

证据的之多让黑帮处于危险之中.

Politics is still dominated by the middle-class mafia.

政治仍然操纵在中产阶级帮派手中。

Detectives now believe the Mafia also had a stake in the plot and killed him when it went wrong.

侦探们现在相信黑手党在这个阴谋中也有利害关系，并在事败后杀了他。

Even if successful, they are unlikely to eradicate the Mafia.

就算成功了, 他们也不大可能根除黑帮.

They are well-connected with the south-based education-reform mafia.

他们同以南方为大本营的教育改革势力集团有着密切的联系。

The Mafia ordered the killing.

黑手党发出了杀人令.

That the word " Mafia " had originally meant place of refuge.

他还摸清了 “ 黑帮”这个词在意大利语里原来的含义是 “ 避难所”.

The Mafia is by no means ignored by Italian television.

意大利电视台绝对不会放过对黑手党的关注。

Jan Roberts weaves a compelling tale which traps a young woman in a world run by the Mafia.

简·罗伯茨编了一个引人入胜的故事，诱骗一位年轻女性进入了黑手党的地盘。

My friend a latest photo of me. She said it looks like a Mafia.

这是朋友为我拍的近照, 她说我看起来象个黑帮.

In the game of Mafia, dead are completely excluded.

杀人游戏之中, 死者就彻底退出游戏了.

" Rome they despised, the Mafia they feared, but not to submission"( Mario Puzo)

“他们鄙视罗马，害怕黑手党，但是绝不屈服”（马里奥·普佐）

Not that Cronenberg has stopped making new films; his Russian Mafia story Eastern Promises premiered at the opening night of the festival.

并非柯南伯格停拍新片了；他的俄罗斯黑手党故事片《巨塔杀机》（eastern promises）在电影节开幕当晚进行了首映。

The deadly Sicilian shotgun was the favorite weapon of the Mafia.

这种杀伤力很大的西西里土制滑膛枪,是黑帮喜爱的武器.

The town hall mafia will prevent this plan going through.

市政厅的幕后操纵集团将阻挠这一计画.

The person assassinated by the mafia shall turn over his card ( face up ) on the table.

被杀的人把他的牌翻过来 ( 面朝上 ) 放在桌上.

A mafia of well-connected wholesalers are now hoarding the crop.

如今，一个由各路关系硬的批发商组成的黑帮组织正在进行着粮食的囤积。

Denial of the Mafia's existence is nothing new.

否认黑手党的存在并不是什么新鲜事。

The mafia paid blood money to have that man killed.

黑手党拿出血腥钱将那人杀了。

And the Mafia cemented its power by originating the law of silence, the omerta.

黑帮采用缄默法, 即所谓守口如瓶的原则,加强了自己的权力.