Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomskyを読んでいます。
The China market was opened by the "poison trade" and the "pig trade," as they were called. The poison trade turned China into a nation of opium addicts; the pig trade brought kidnapped Chinese workers to the United States to build railroads and perform other hard labor. Profits from the narcotrafficking racket also covered the costs of the Royal Navy and its imperial role, the administration of India, and the purchase of U.S. cotton, which fueled the early industrial revolution much in the way oil does today.
"racket" に「大騒ぎ/大騒ぎする」の意味があることは前に覚えましたが、上に出てきた "narcotrafficking racket" は麻薬での大騒ぎではなく、麻薬取引を示しているようです。辞書で確認します。
・Macmillan Dictionary: an illegal activity that makes money: a smuggling racket
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a dishonest or illegal activity that makes money: They were jailed for running a protection/prostitution racket.
麻薬取引は不正な金儲けであるのは言うまでもないですね。
The China market was opened by the "poison trade" and the "pig trade," as they were called. The poison trade turned China into a nation of opium addicts; the pig trade brought kidnapped Chinese workers to the United States to build railroads and perform other hard labor. Profits from the narcotrafficking racket also covered the costs of the Royal Navy and its imperial role, the administration of India, and the purchase of U.S. cotton, which fueled the early industrial revolution much in the way oil does today.
"racket" に「大騒ぎ/大騒ぎする」の意味があることは前に覚えましたが、上に出てきた "narcotrafficking racket" は麻薬での大騒ぎではなく、麻薬取引を示しているようです。辞書で確認します。
・Macmillan Dictionary: an illegal activity that makes money: a smuggling racket
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a dishonest or illegal activity that makes money: They were jailed for running a protection/prostitution racket.
麻薬取引は不正な金儲けであるのは言うまでもないですね。
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