Rodriquez has encountered something more frightening than $4.50-a-gallon gasoline: the mean streets of L. A. , home of the nation's most entrenched car culture.

然而，30岁的罗德里格兹遭遇了比4.5美元一加仑汽油更可怕的事：美国汽车文化最为根深蒂固的洛杉矶的危险街道。

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But Brazilian women are making inroads into this male-dominated profession, not just policing Rio's mean streets but also occupying some of the highest ranks in the corporation.

然而，巴西的女性正跻身于这个以男性为主导的职业，不仅参与里约穷街陋巷的治安工作，还在企业中占据某些最高级别的职位。

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The young Jaxxon landed on Nar Shaddaa, and spent the next few years honing his streetwise survival skills and razor-sharp wit on the mean streets of the vertical cities.

年轻的贾克森来到纳沙达星球，之后，用了几年时间在垂直城市的穷街陋巷磨练自己的街头求生技能和随机应变能力。

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Now this does not mean that a person who doesn't have enough food, someone who is homeless on the streets here, gets an extra thousand or two thousand dollars a month-- that of course will make him or her much happier.

并不是说一个没有足够食物，一个无家可归，流落街头的人，每个月多有一两千美元-,那当然会让他或她更快乐。

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