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chain gang

连锁帮派,连锁帮,连锁店,链条式团伙

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a group of convicts chained together, especially when working outside.

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Examples

  • On tour, Cooke’s bus was pulled over, and he and his band came upon an actual chain gang, Cooke taking a few minutes to speak to the men who were shackled to each other, like the men at the oars in the slave ships, only now upright.

  • How do you feel about Archer and the gang abandoning the cartel and returning to the office?

  • Gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.

  • The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.

  • Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the decline was a result of an effort to decrease gang violence.

  • You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.

  • She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?

  • Then he closed the spring with a snap, and she let him pass the chain over her hand once more.

  • When Michael needed fresh supplies, he was not long in gathering a gang of harpies about him.

  • I like sus-sus-pen-sheen bridges that fly from bank to bank, with one big step, like a gang-plank.

  • He captured two, whom he shot, and burned two or three houses whose owners had been harboring the gang.