课文翻译 英美报刊阅读教程中级精选本 第五版 端木义万 Lesson 7

尽管为富裕单身人士服务的购物中心里的

夜总会如雨后春笋般涌现。

In some cities, school buildings are crowded again, and small commercial districts are

rising from the dead.

在一些城市，学校建筑再次拥挤起来，小型商业区死而复生。

In

the

Washington

area,

non

-

families

have

outnumbered

married

-

with

-

children

households in most of the region’s biggest suburbs for more than a decade, and the

trend

intensified

in

the

1990s,

hi

the

region’s

outer

suburbs,

married

couples

with

children still dominate.

在华盛顿地区，

十多年来，

在该地区大部分最大的郊区，

非家庭家庭的数量超过

了已婚带孩子的家庭，

这一趋势在

20

世纪

90

年代加剧，

< br>在该地区的远郊，

已婚

带孩子的家庭仍然占主导地位。< /p>

The transformation of the suburbs reflects the arrival of a more diverse population and

changes in the lives of people already living there.

郊区的转变反映了人口多样化的到来，

以及已经生活在那里的人们的生活发生了

变化。

There

is

a

growing

singles

scene

of

young

people

who

want

to

live

near

suburban

workplaces,

an

increasing

number

of

unmarried

couples

buying

houses,

and

more

homes being rented to groups, including immigrants.

越来越多的年轻人想要住在郊区工 作场所附近，

越来越多的未婚夫妇在买房，

越

< br>来越多的房子被租给团体，包括移民。

At

the

same

time,

there

also

are

more

elderly

individuals—once

in

a

couple,

now

widowed—who want to remain in the neighborhoods where they raised their children.

与此同时，

也有 越来越多的老人

——

曾经是一对夫妻，

现在已经丧偶

——

愿意留

在养育子女的 社区。

“The

suburbs

increasingly

are

becoming

a

microcosm

of

America,”

said

demographer William H. Frey, the report’s co

-

author. “All the problems we associate

with

America

and

even

urban

America

are

suburban

problems

…

housing

affordability at the low end, senior services at the high end.”

该 报告的合著者、

人口学家威廉

·h·

弗 雷

(William H. Frey)

说

:“

郊区正日益成为美国

的缩影。

”“

所有我们与美国甚至美国城市联系在一起的问题都是郊区问题

……

低

端的住房负担能力，高端的高级服务。

The

growing

power

of

single

suburbanites

of

all

ages

could

foreshadow

political

struggles.

各个年龄段的郊区居民日益增长的力量可能预示着政治斗争。

“They

may

be

able

to

outvote

the

households

with

children

who

need

school

and

playgrounds,” said regional economist Stephen Fuller, who teaches at George Mason

University.

在乔治梅森大学

(George

Mason

University)

任教的地区经济学家斯蒂芬

·

富勒

(S tephen

Fuller)

说

:“

他们可能会在投票中击败那些有孩子需要上学和玩耍的家

庭。< /p>

”

There are now 12.8 million non

-

family households in the suburbs of the nation’s 102

largest metropolitan areas, according to Frey’s analysis, and 11.7 million households

in the married

-

wi th

-

children category, in 1990, the situation was reversed.