美国始于1929年的经济危机时期，经济不断恶化，失业者饱受饥寒之苦，他们在全国四处流浪，昔日繁华的大街上出现了用旧铁皮、纸板和粗麻布搭起的棚户区，人们把它叫做“胡佛村”，用来讽刺胡佛当局对付金融危机束手无策。
失业者居住的贫民区现在被称为“胡佛村”。
Shanty-towns of unemployed men were now called"Hoovervilles".
截至胡佛离职，25%的美国人失业，数十万人住在知名的胡佛村帐篷城里。
By the time Hoover left office, 25% of Americans were jobless and hundreds of thousands were living in tent cities known as Hoovervilles.
穷人住在城市垃圾场，盖起了所谓的胡佛村，甚至为争夺餐馆丢弃的残羹冷炙大打出手。
The poor lived in city dumps, in so-called Hoovervilles, and fought over garbage thrown out by restaurants.
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