英语听力：探索发现 2014-04-23 Sex for Sale -16

 Even during America's bloodiest¹ conflict, if you could find one thing for sale, it would be sex. As the Civil War raged on, brothels bring up to sevious lonely soldiers who are far from their wives and sweethearts. Can you imagine what a brothel was like during the Civil War? -It would look very sexy and hopefully clean. -Disiplined decore, very tastful, very opulated, bottle testiles. -A lot cabin with a lot of naked women. -A lot of whiskey, you know a lot of weapons, you know blood, it's ugly you are back then. 

Even today, we are on covering new evidence of exactly what prostitution was like during the Civil War. In 1999, a sharking discovery was made in Washington D.C.. Revealling a hidden side of the brothel business that would be lost for over a hundred years. In 1860s, the Civil War pitted brother against brother, north against south. During that time, the war time economy went into over drive finding everything from weapons to battleships. But in Washington D.C., another business was boombing, the sale of sex.

1 bloodiest   

adj.血污的( bloody的最高级 )；流血的；屠杀的；残忍的

参考例句：

• The Russians were going to suffer their bloodiest defeat of all before Berlin. 俄国人在柏林城下要遭到他们的最惨重的失败。 来自辞典例句
• It was perhaps the bloodiest hour in the history of warfare. 这也许是战争史上血腥味最浓的1个小时。 来自互联网