chain gangs

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chain gangs

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N-COUNT (尤指美国旧时)锁在一起服劳役的囚犯
In the United States, a chain gang is a group of prisoners who are chained together to do work outside their prison. Chain gangs existed especially in former times.

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Not surprisingly , although three quarters of the white population of Alabama supports chain gangs , only a small number of black people do .

阿拉巴马虽有3/4的白人支持带镣服刑，却只有很少一部分黑人赞同这样做，这就不足为怪了。
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Six out of every ten prisoners in chains are black , which is why the chain gangs call up images of slavery in centuries gone by , when black people were brought from Africa in leg irons and made to work in plantations owned by white men .

用铁链串在一起的犯人60%是黑人，正因如此，这些带镣铐和囚犯想到了几个世纪前的奴隶制下的种种景象，那时黑人带着脚镣从非洲带来，被近在白人的种植园里干活。