海地

My interest went beyond politics; I would come to love the Mexican and Puerto Rican sections of the city—the sounds of salsa and merengue pulsing out of apartments on hot summer nights, the solemnity of Mass in churches once filled with Poles and Italians and Irish, the frantic, happy chatter of soccer matches in the park, the cool humor of the men behind the counter at the sandwich shop, the elderly women who would grasp my hand and laugh at my pathetic efforts at Spanish.

我关心的不仅是政治；我渐渐喜欢上了城市里的墨西哥裔和波多黎各裔社区——在燥热的夏天夜晚，从公寓中传出萨尔萨舞曲和梅伦格舞（海地和多米尼加的一种交际舞）的有节奏的音乐；在肃穆的教堂中做弥撒时，有时会坐满波兰裔、意大利裔和爱尔兰裔；在公园里，足球比赛时的非常快乐的闲聊；在三明治商店里的柜台后的一个伙计讲的冷笑话；老年妇女拉住我的手，笑话我对西班牙裔做出的少的可怜的帮助。

But the ferocity of the temblors and the huge death tolls may be the only parallels between the two quake-stricken nations.

但同样遭受了地震蹂躏的海地和四川，唯一相似的地方却只有地震的残酷和巨大的伤亡。

But the ferocity of the temblors and the huge death tolls may be the only parallels between the two quake-stricken nations.

但是地震的无情和令人震惊的死亡人数可能是海地和中国这两个都被地震侵袭的国家仅有的相同点了。

But the ferocity of the temblors and the huge death tolls may be the only parallels between the two quake-stricken nations.

然而地震的无情和令人震惊的死亡人数可能是海地和中国这两个都被地震侵袭的国家仅有的相同点了。

The major earthquake that struck Haiti Tuesday may have shocked a region unaccustomed to such temblors, but the devastating quake was not unusual in that it was caused by the same forces that generate earthquakes the world over.

星期二的大地震沉重地打击了海地，震憾了罕见这样地震的地区。不过，世界各地由同样的力量引发的这种灾难性地震并不罕见。

As the secretary-general's executive jet flew in over Port-au-Prince, he would have been able to see the great expanses of tents and tarpaulins that a large proportion of the homeless population here are now living under after their houses collapsed.

秘书长的专机飞越太子港时，他一定看的到房屋倒塌之后大量无家可归的海地人的大面积的帐篷和防水衣。

There are more sailings at Shanghai, so we have chosen it as the unloading port.

因为上海地船次多，我们把这里定为卸货港。

In the sixteen hundreds Haiti's French colonizers cleared forests to plant sugar cane.

世纪，海地的法国殖民者砍伐森林来种植甘蔗。

In the sixteen hundreds Haiti's French colonizers cleared forests to plant sugar cane. In the nineteen fifties, forests were cut down for wood and other products.

16世纪，海地的法国殖民者砍伐了大片森林种植甘蔗。19世纪50年代，森林被砍伐用来生产木材和其他产品。

In Haitian culture, a person's belief in the deadly power of thewitch doctor "pointing the bone" can indeed cause death. But thereal killer is a sense of certainty --- the belief --- not thewitch doctor.

在海地人的文化中，人们深拥有&指出尸骨位置&这种死亡力量的巫医确实可以致人于死地，但真正的凶手是深信不疑的感觉，即信念，而不是什么巫医。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。