Stricter Airport Security and Unusual Luggage: A Challenge for Smugglers
- After the September 11 attacks, airport security became stricter, making it more difficult for smugglers to bring illegal goods into countries.
- Instances of people carrying unusual luggage have been noticed, making it challenging even to pass with innocent souvenirs.
- Examples include a man from Australia who smuggled skinks, lizards, and geckos strapped to his chest, and an elderly man who carried historic cobblestones in his bag.
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日本語訳してください！お願いします！ After September 11, 2001, security at airports became much stricter. Workers at airports and border stations began noticing that people frequently carry unusual luggage. It would seem that it is getting more difficult not only to smuggle illegal things, but to get past officials with souvenirs that might have gone unnoticed years before. The smuggler has found it more difficult to bring illegal goods into countries. At an airport in Los Angeles, for example, officials saw a thin man on a security camera who had an unusually heavy body. When they searched him, the security officials got a big surprise. After removing his shirt, they found that eleven skinks, two lizards, and two geckos had been strapped to his chest. He had come all the way from Australia with these valuable creatures, which would be worth about \1,000,000 to exotic-animal collectors. Jim Hughes, a friendly, 77-year-old man from the States, probably could not be called a smuggler, but he was discovered with some extraordinary carry-on luggage. Officials noticed that he had trouble carrying his small bag, so they offered to help. They were shocked to find out how heavy it was. Inside, they discovered two large pieces of historic cobblestone from the surface of a road. Hughes cheerfully explained that he had picked them up on an old street in Boston. The airport official took them away and had the cultural treasures returned to the roads department.
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2001年9月11日以後、空港のセキュリティーは、ずっと厳しくなりました。空港と国境の駅の職員は、人々が変わった荷物をしばしば所持すると気がつき始めました。違法なものを密輸するだけでなく、数年前ならば気づかれずにすんだかもしれない土産物で当局を通過することがより難しくなっているようです。 密輸業者は、国に違法な商品を持ってくることがより難しいとわかりました。例えば、ロサンゼルスの空港では、当局は、異常に重い体重の痩せた男を防犯カメラで見つけました。彼らが彼を検査したとき、保安担当者は、とても驚きました。彼のシャツを脱がせた後、11匹のスキンク（トカゲ）、2匹のトカゲ、2匹のヤモリが彼の胸にストラップで固定されていたことがわかりました。彼はこれらの価値ある生きものを隠し持ってはるばるオーストラリアからやって来たのでした。そして、それは風変わりな動物のコレクターにとっては、約1,000,000円の価値があったでしょう。 ジム・ヒューズは、アメリカ出身の気さくな77才の男性で、多分、密輸業者とは呼べないのでしょうが、いくつか異常なキャリー・オン・ラゲッジ（機内に持ち込める荷物）を所持しているところを発見されました。係官は彼が小さなバッグを運ぶのに苦労していることに気がついたので、彼らは手伝うことを申し出ました。彼らは、それがどれくらい重いかわかってショックを受けました。その中に、彼らは道路の表面から取った舗装用の2個の大きな歴史的な玉石を発見しました。ヒューズは、彼がボストンの古い通りでそれらを拾ったのだと陽気に説明しました。空港の職員は、それらを押収して、道路部に文化財を返却しました。
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お願いします (5) Many of Cicero's speeches and essays have also survived. They tell us what he thought about friendship, education, law, patriotism, and loyalty―to name a few of his topics. In an essay on duty, he described what a gentleman should and should not do. According to Cicero, it was just fine for a gentleman to own a farm, but he mustn't do the actual digging, planting, or plowing himself. In fact, a true gentleman would never work with his hands.(6) Cicero was a snob. He looked down on workers―even shopkeepers. He said that“they couldn't make a profit unless they lied a lot. And nothing is more shameful than lying.” He disdained fishermen, butchers, cooks, poultry sellers, perfume makers, and dancers because their work appealed to the senses of taste, sight, and smell. What would he say about hairdressers, movie stars, and rock stars if he were alive today? (7) Cicero was born in 106 BCE in the small town of Arpinum, not far from Rome. He came from a wealthy family that was well known in the region. But because none of his ancestors had ever served in the Roman Senate, Cicero was considered a“new man”―an outsider, not a genuine aristocrat. (8) As a teenager, Cicero traveled and studied in Greece, North Africa and Asia. While in Athens, he began his training as an orator―a skilled public speaker―convinced that this would be important in his political career. He was right. He understood that an orator needs a good memory and a huge store of information. But he said that it wasn't enough just to spout off a string of facts. An orator should use an actor's skills to put across his ideas. The words of a speech,“must be reinforced by bodily movement, gesture, facial expression, and by changes in the voice itself.”
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お願いします (9) When the aspiring young politician finished his travels, he settled in Rome. Although he hated the corruption that he saw among the city's officials, he wanted to join their club. He hoped to become a magistrate and convince the others to govern once again with honor and justice―to forget their own ambitions and work for the common good. (10) Cicero wasn't a coward. He never hestitated to point ont the crimes that he saw, even if high-ranking officials had committed them. His first legal case pitted him against a top lawyer. Against all odds, he won. This victory made his reputation as the young man who beat an old pro. (11) In 75 BCE the people elected Cicero quaestor, an assistant to the governor of Sicily, when he was 30 years old―the youngest age the law allowed. Even though his ancestors had never held major office in Rome, Cicero climbed the ladder of success very quickly. He did it through hard work and innate brilliance. But Rome was like a boiling pot of trouble in Cicero's day, just as it had been when the Gracchi brothers were alive. Fierce battles still raged in the streets because so many people were hungry and jobless. (12) Riots and corruption had threatened Rome's security in the age of the Gracchi. Afterward, the situation greweven worse. German tribes moved south into Roman territory in southern Gaul modern France), where they defeated Roman armies in three frightening battles. This was the first time since Hannibal that foreign invaders had threatened Italy. Faced with new enemies, Rome desperately recruited soldiers. The consul Gaius Marius enlisted a new army, even accepting poor men who owned no land. Although soldiers usually supplied their own equipment, Marius gave uniforms and weapons to these new recruits.
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お願いします (21) During his own lifetime, Cicero was known as a great statesman, orator, and man of action. But he died a bitterly disappointed man. He had failed to do what he most wanted to accomplish: to save the Roman Republic. Not even Cicero's enemies, though, could doubt his love for Rome. Plutarch, writing many years after Cicero's death, tells a story about Octavian─after he had risen to great power as the emperor Augustus Caesar. The emperor found his grandson reading a book written by Cicero. Knowing that his grandfather had agreed to let Mark Antony's soldiers murder Cicero, “The boy was afraid and tried to hide it under his gown. Augustus...took the book from him, and began to read it.... When he gave it back to his grandson, he said,‘My child, this was a learned man, and a lover of his country.’”
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