“We had no money. And the price of his silence was that we work for him for nothing. We were slaves.”
我們沒錢。而換他閉嘴的代價,就是白白替他幹活。我們成了奴隸。
用三個短句把勒索說成一場交易,最後一句把一個體麵人打回原形。
The price of X was that we ...
講述被迫付出的代價時用;正式的陳述裡這樣講仍很有力。
His silence cost us everything we earned. / We paid for it with free work.
中性
We had no money 放慢加重,結尾 slaves 壓低聲。
The price of his help was that we worked all summer. 換他幫忙的代價,是我們幹了一整個夏天。
