Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a city without bikes or one without cars.
如果让我来决定我们要一个没有自行车的城市,还是要一个没的汽车的城市。
There was a tine when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago that to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.
曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取保护。