美語情景對話 第160期:邁阿密 Miami
Todd: So, Alexandra, you said that you were born in Miami.
Alexandra, 你說你生於邁阿密。
Alexandra: Yes, I was.
是的。
Todd: And you still live there?
你還住在那兒嗎？
Alexandra: Yes, I am, I do live there, now.
是的，我現在確實還住在那兒。
Todd: Has the city changed a lot?
那所城市有很大變化嗎？
Alexandra: Actually it has.
事實上是有的。
As a young kid, there was a lot more freedom as a child to just run around your neighborhood or ride your bike, go to school without being escorted by a parent or going on a bus, you could walk to school or ride your bike to school.
一個小孩子是有很多自由的，你可以四處拜訪你的鄰居或者你可以自己騎車去上學，而不一定要讓家長護送，也不一定就非得乘公交上學。你可以走着去也可以騎車去。
Now there are so many more people in the city and the demographics have changed due to a hurricane we had about ten or twelve years ago, and so it's, the parents now have to be more vigilant with their children.
現在這個城市的人口越來越多，而且由於十或十二年前的一場颶風，人口統計數據在改變，而且正是因爲這個，家長們對孩子的安危會更加警惕。
Be more careful. There's more people.
更加小心。人口又多了。
Todd: You said a hurricane changed the demographics.
你說一場颶風改變了人口統計數據。
Alexandra: Yes, in, Hurricane Andrew had come into Florida, lower, southern Florida, and had completely demolished this south of Miami, a city called homestead,
是的，颶風來的時候，安德魯已經到了佛羅里達州，南佛羅里達,而且已經完全拆除了邁阿密南部的一個叫家園的城市。
and all those residents moved up to Miami, and many of the residents in Miami that had damage from the hurricane moved up to the next county up.
而且所有的居民都搬到了邁阿密，而且很多邁阿密的居民又因受到這場颶風的影響搬到了另外的一個城市。
So you have a completely different demographic coming in.
那麼人口結構也就變得完全不同了。
Many people from other parts that were affected in South Florida also moved up, and also the people that are originally in Miami, some even moved out of the state.
很多住在南佛羅里達州的居民也因受到颶風的影響而搬到了邁阿密，而有些原本住在邁阿密的人，卻搬了出去。
They had enough of hurricanes.
颶風太強了。
You get a category five which is probably the strongest hurricane there is, blow through and completely destroy your home, you really don't want to stick around anymore for another taste,
那是一場五級颶風，應該算是最強的了。風強的足以颳倒你的房屋，從另一個角度來說，你真的就不會再想着再在那兒住下去了。
so and also Miami has become a very popular place to come and live and work, so you have an increase in population, and different types of population.
然而邁阿密也是個很適合居住和工作的地方，那麼就會有更多的人，會有更多種族的人。
As I said before there's many different people's from different countries and every so often you have a new wave of immigrants coming in, so it changes things.
正如我之前說的，這裏會有很多不同的人來自不同的國家，而且每年都會有移民潮，所以事物也就會隨之改變了。
