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2020
高考英语时事热点英语新闻外刊学英语
African migrants heading to U.S. in
record numbers
The
numbers
of
African
migrants heading to
the
U.S.
through
its
border with Mexico have more than
doubled in the past year, recent
data
from the federal government showed.
【译文
】美国联邦政府最近公布的数据显示，过去一年，通过墨西哥边境前
往美国的非洲移民人
数增加了一倍多。
【词汇】
⊙
head
朝（某方向）行进
to move in a
particular direction;
<
用法
>head to
<
用法
>
表示“……的数据”使用介词
from: data from
…
In 2019, about 5,800 African migrants
headed to the U.S. by way of
Mexico,
according to data cited by the Los Angeles Times
on Sunday.
【译文】“洛杉矶时报”周日援引的数据显示，
2019
年，约有
5800
名
非
洲移民经由墨西哥前往美国。
Last year, that figure was 2,700, the
report said.
【译文】报告称，去年，这一数字为
2700
人。
The
2019
figures
have
shown
a
significant
rise
since
2007,
when
Mexico
first
included
African
migrants
in
its
annual migration reports. That year,
the number of African migrants
was only
460.
【译文】
2019
年的数据
显示，自
2007
年墨西哥首次将非洲移民纳入年度
移徙报告以来，这一数字大幅上升。
2007
年，
非洲移民人数只有
460
人。
【词汇】
⊙
migration
迁徙
the movement of
large numbers of people from one
place
to another;
<
表达
>a
significant rise
显著
/
大幅上升
/
增加
Guerline
Jozef,
the
director
and
co-founder
of
the
Haitian
Bridge
Alliance, said she was surprised to
meet migrants from Haiti, Congo,
Cameroon, and Sierra Leone waiting to
enter the U.S. from Tijuana
back in
2016.
【译文】海地桥联盟的负责人兼联合创始人
Guerline
jozef
说，让她惊讶
的是，
2016
年，她遇到了来自海地、刚果、喀麦隆和塞拉利昂的移民，他
们正等待着从蒂华纳入境美国。
“
At the time, honestly, I
did not believe it,
”
she said.
“
Not,
almost
four
years
later,
we
have
thousands
and
thousands
of
black
migrants.
”
【译文】“当时，老实说，我不相信，”她说。“我不相信大约四年后，美
国
会有成千上万的黑人移民。”
【词汇】
⊙
migrant
移民者
migrate
vi.
迁移；迁徙；转移
1.
Most birds have to fly long distances to migrate.
大多数鸟类为了迁徙都不得不长距离飞行。
2. Birds usually migrate from north to
south.
鸟类通常从北向南迁徙。
3. a dam system that kills the fish as
they migrate from streams to
the ocean
导致鱼类在从溪流洄游到海洋途中死亡的水坝系统
4. Every spring they migrate towards
the coast.
他们每年春天都向沿海地区迁徙。
migration
迁移
Rebecca
Alemayehu,
a
California-based
immigration
lawyer,
said
despite
obstacles
African
migrants
faced,
there
was
no
evidence
their
numbers
were
slowing
down.
She
said
African
migrants
have
arrived at the Mexico-Guatemala border
every day.
【译文】加州移民律师
Rebecca
Alemayehu
表示，尽管非洲移民面临种
种障碍，但没有证据表明移民人数在减缓。她说，每天都有非洲移民抵达墨
西哥
-
危地马拉边境。
【词汇】
⊙
despite
prep.
尽管，不管
1. Despite
official denials, the rumours still
persist.
尽管官方予以否认，但谣言依然没有平息。
2. Despite strong principles he was
never censorious.
他尽管原则性很强，却从不吹毛求疵。