神明難逃幫派利益
Alice and Jerry are watching news reports on TV.
愛麗絲跟傑瑞在看電視新聞。
Alice: It’s shocking that the statue of the four-faced god got burned down.
愛麗絲：四面佛神像被燒毀的新聞真是太震驚了。
it’s shocking that很震驚的是shocking(adj.)令人震驚的surprising驚喜的statue(n.)雕像burn down燒毀religion(n.)宗教Buddhism(n.)佛教Taoism(n.)道教Christianity(n.)基督教Islam(n.)伊斯蘭教
Jerry: What happened? Was it an accident?
傑瑞：那是一起意外嗎？
accident(n.)意外by accident不小心地、意外地=accidentally(adv.)
Alice: No, the report said it was a planned crime.
愛麗絲：不是，報導說是蓄意犯案。
a planned crime事先預謀的犯罪illegal(adj.)違法的break the law違法
Jerry: That’s too bad. I remember it was quite busy around there.
傑瑞：太糟糕了，我記得那附近很熱鬧。
that’s too bad太糟糕了、太可惜了quite(adv.)蠻、相當quiet(adj.)安靜的quit(v.)離開busy(adj.)繁忙、熱鬧
Alice: Yeah, there were a lot of shops, diners and private houses around the shrine.
愛麗絲：是啊，神舍附近有很多商家、小吃店、和住家。
diner(n.)餐館vendor(n.)攤販street food街頭美食private(adj.)私人的shrine(n.)神殿、神壇temple(n.)寺廟
Jerry: It must have been crowded there at the time of the fire. Did anyone get hurt?
傑瑞：那一定有很多人在附近，有人受傷嗎？
crowded(adj.)擁擠的crowd(n.)人群、群眾set a fire on sth.縱火start a fire生火
Alice: Luckily, no. Around 500 people escaped on their own, and 130 more were guided out by firefighters during the fire.
愛麗絲：很幸運地並沒有。火災現場大約500人及時逃出，還有130人被引導救出。
luckily(adv.)幸運地escape from從何處逃出on one’s own靠自己guide(v.)引導、領導(n.)導遊firefighter(n.)消防員
Jerry: I wonder why this kind of thing happened.
傑瑞：我真納悶這種事怎麼會發生？
I wonder +wh我很好奇、很納悶
Alice: The authorities said it was likely that local gangsters were involved for the money.
愛麗絲：相關當局說幫派勢力可能因為利益而牽涉其中。
the authorities相關當局gangster(n.)幫派份子gang幫派、一群朋友
Jerry: That makes things even more complicated.
傑瑞：這讓事情變得更複雜了。
complicated(adj.)複雜的