New migrant caravans?leave Honduras?to pursue ‘American Dream’

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HONDURAS: Hundreds of?asylum seekers?are forming new migrant caravans in Honduras in Central America, planning to walk thousands of kilometres to the United States via Guatemala?and Mexico, in search of a better life under the new administration of President Joe Biden.

洪都拉斯：中美洲洪都拉斯成千上百的難民正在形成新的移民車隊(duì)，計(jì)劃行進(jìn)千里，穿過危地馬拉和墨西哥前往美國，希望在拜登政府下獲得更好的生活。

Caravan??n. /?k?r?v?n/ ?1.旅行拖車，宿營拖車（無發(fā)動機(jī)，由其他車拖動，多供度假時(shí)住宿用）?a caravan site/park 旅行拖車停車場；2.（供居住用的）有篷馬車，大篷車??a Gypsy caravan 吉卜賽人的大篷車；3.（尤指穿越沙漠的）旅行隊(duì)，車隊(duì)

Honduras /h?n?dj??r?s/ n. 洪都拉斯（拉丁美洲國家）

Asylum??n. /??sa?l?m/ ?

1.（政治）庇護(hù)，避難??to seek/apply for/be granted asylum 尋求╱申請╱獲準(zhǔn)政治避難2.精神病院

Guatemala /?ɡwɑ?t??mɑ?l?; ?ɡw?t??mɑ?l?/n. 危地馬拉（拉丁美洲國家）；危地馬拉人

A first group of some 300 people set out at dawn on Thursday from San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras, headed for Corinto, on the border with Guatemala, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest.

第一批難民約300多人是周四傍晚從洪都拉斯第二大城市San Pedro Sula出發(fā)，前往危地馬拉邊境城市Corinto，位于出發(fā)地西北部100多公里地方。

Traveling in small groups, some bearing the Honduran flag, most of the traveling migrants wore coronavirus protective face masks.

他們以小群體形式移動，有些還掛著洪都拉斯的國旗，大部分都戴著防新冠病毒的口罩。

According to social media pages, another 3,000 people are to meet at San Pedro Sula on Thursday evening to leave in the small hours for Corinto or Agua Caliente elsewhere on the border, some 260 km away.

根據(jù)社交媒體披露，另外3000人將于周四晚上在San Pedro Sula 會面，然后在凌晨離開，前往邊境城市Corinto或260公里外的另一個(gè)邊境城市Agua Caliente。

The migrants say they are fleeing poverty, unemployment, gang and drug violence, as well as the aftermath?of two violent hurricanes that hit the country last November.

這些難民說道，他們是逃離貧窮、失業(yè)、黑幫和毒品暴力、以及去年11月份兩場大型颶風(fēng)帶來的余波

Aftermath：n. /?ɑ?ft?m?θ/ （戰(zhàn)爭、事故、不快事情的）后果，創(chuàng)傷?? A lot of rebuilding took place in the aftermath of the war. 戰(zhàn)后進(jìn)行了大量的重建工作。

The US commitment to the "rule of law and public health" is not affected by a change in the administration, he stressed, and migrant caravans will not be allowed to make their way north in violation of national sovereignty and immigration laws.

Morgan強(qiáng)調(diào)，美國對“法治和公共衛(wèi)生”的承諾不會受到政府換屆的影響，在違反國家主權(quán)和移民法的情況下，移民車隊(duì)不會被允許北上。

"This is a deadly journey -– the US Border Patrol?recovered more than 250 bodies along the US-Mexico border last fiscal year. We saw two deaths just last week, when smugglers?abandoned dozens of migrants in a winter storm that dumped?two feet of snow near Big Bend, Texas," added Morgan.

他繼續(xù)說道：這是一次死亡之旅--美國邊境巡邏隊(duì)去年一個(gè)財(cái)政年度在美墨邊境收到了超過250具尸體。我們上周才發(fā)現(xiàn)兩具尸體，在德克薩斯州大本德附近，走私者在一場兩英尺厚的冬季暴風(fēng)雪中遺棄了數(shù)十名難民。

Patrol??/p??tr??l/ n. 巡邏；巡邏隊(duì)；偵察隊(duì)；vt. 巡邏；巡查；vi. 巡邏；巡查

smuggler /?sm?ɡl?(r)/?n. 走私者；走私犯；[法] 走私船

Dump?v. 傾倒；丟下；猛地放下；（向國外）傾銷；隨便堆放；與（某人）結(jié)束戀愛關(guān)系；（非正式）拋棄；（非正式）拋售；卸出（數(shù)據(jù)）；（內(nèi)存信息）轉(zhuǎn)儲。n. 垃圾場；廢渣堆；礦山廢石堆；（非正式）臟地方；軍需品臨時(shí)存放處；轉(zhuǎn)儲；（非正式）拉屎

More than a dozen migrant caravans have set off from Honduras since October 2018 -- at least four of them with 3,000 people each. But all have run up against thousands of US border guards and soldiers positioned on Mexico's southern border by the President Donald Trump's administration. Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras have an agreement with the United States to stop north-bound migratory flows from the south of the continent. - AFP

從2018年10月開始，已經(jīng)有超過10多支的難民車隊(duì)從洪都拉斯啟程前往美國。其中至少4支隊(duì)伍有3000人規(guī)模。但都遭遇了被特朗普政府布防在美墨南方邊境的邊境警衛(wèi)、士兵阻攔。危地馬拉、墨西哥和洪都拉斯三個(gè)國家與美國簽訂，阻止從大陸南部向北流動的移民。

原文鏈接：http://www.dailynews.lk/2021/01/16/world/238934/new-migrant-caravans-leave-honduras-pursue-%E2%80%98american-dream%E2%80%99

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