The Cubans had attached floats and propellers to a 1951 Chevy truck.
这些古巴人在一辆1951年的雪佛兰卡车上安装了浮筒和螺旋桨。
They said one of their planes spotted the Cubans more than half way through their journey and the coast guards could not believe their eyes when they saw the vessel.
他们说,旅途过半时,他们在其中一架飞机上发现了古巴人。当海岸警卫队看到这艘船时,他们简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。
Cubans could expect widespread shortages.
古巴人会面临普遍的短缺。
They will brighten the dreary lives of Cubans.
他们将照亮古巴人沉闷的生活。
The Castros are still revered by many older Cubans.
卡斯特罗现在仍然受到许多老一辈的古巴人的敬重。
Another is to let Cubans stay at tourist-only hotels.
另外一项建议是允许古巴人入住专为游客开设的旅店。
The Coast Guard says that 36 Cubans died at sea in April alone.
海岸警卫队表示仅在4月份就有36名古巴人死于海上。
"We've got Swiss and Germans dancing salsa like Cubans," she says.
“我们已经有瑞士人和德国人跳萨尔萨跳的像古巴人跳的那样,”她说。
To make ends meet, Cubans are forced to rely on a vast informal economy.
为了保证收支平衡,古巴人被迫要依赖于巨额的非正式经济。
Similarly, more Cubans are being allowed into the United States than in the past.
同样的,跟以前相比,越来越多的古巴人被允许进入美国。
He insists that he understands the problems Cubans face in their daily lives.
他坚持认为他很理解古巴民众在日常生活所面临的诸多困难。
The ticker made little visible impact on Cubans but became a tourist attraction.
这个电子告示牌并没有对古巴人产生明显的影响,反倒成了一处观光场所。
The sinking of the Maine did not matter nearly so much to him as the native Cubans.
缅因号的沉没对他和古巴人而言都无所谓。
I had given Causey and the National Guard strict instructions not to let the Cubans pass.
我已经给考西和国民警卫队下达了严格的指示,不允许他们放古巴人通过。
Most of the victims were Uruguayan, but there were also Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians and Cubans.
多数被害者是乌拉圭人,但也包括来自智利、玻利维亚、秘鲁以及古巴的人士。
Nobody has the right to deprive us Cubans on the island of what they enjoy quite naturally abroad.
没有人有权利剥夺我们古巴人在国外的权利。
Health and education are indeed the most prominent accomplishments most Cubans say they take pride in.
医疗及教育确实是大多数古巴人所引以为傲的显著成就。
In the past, Cubans made the crossing-just over 100 miles (160km) between Havana and Key west-in home-made rafts.
以前,古巴人乘自制木筏横渡大海——从哈瓦那到基韦斯特仅有100多英里(160km)。
Cubans grumble, too, that the monthly ration of staples only lasts 10-15 days, and many items are often unavailable.
古巴市民亦埋怨,每月配给的主食仅能维持10 - 15天,而且很多项目经常缺货。
The aim was to avoid a repeat of the summer of 1994, when tens of thousands of Cubans took to the sea in flimsy boats.
这样做的目的是为了避免重蹈1994年夏的覆辙。那时候上万古巴人就搭乘着弱不禁风的各式船只驶向大海。
Russia's support for Cuba ended abruptly with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, leaving Cubans bitter.
随着上世纪90年代初苏联的解体,俄罗斯对古巴的支持突然中断,这让古巴人感到不满。
In the case where Cubans exchange homes of equal value in a barter agreement, each side will pay 4% of the value of their home.
如果古巴居民根据交换协议互相交换等值的房屋,双方则需要缴纳房屋价值4%的费用。
At least 300, 000 Cubans have come to the United States since 1994, when an accord was signed granting 20, 000 American visas a year.
1994年,自从有协议规定每年只给古巴人办理两万张美国签证,至今,一共有超过30万人从古巴来到了美国。
Payment is also an issue. Americans cannot accept money from Cubans directly, so setting up a third-party payment procedure is necessary.
付帐也是个问题,美国人不能从古巴人手里直接收钱,于是有必要设立一个第三方付款程序。
Cubans even have a term for obtaining the things they need, legally or illegally: "resolver," which loosely translates as solving a problem.
古巴人甚至有个描述他们合法或非法地获得需要物资的词:“分解器”,这个词不是很精确的可以翻译为解决问题的意思。
Yet the spike in the number of Cubans seeking to leave may have as much to do with an increase in organised smuggling as with economic despair.
然而,寻求逃往美国的古巴人数量的剧增不仅源于人们对经济的绝望,还与有组织偷渡活动的增加有很大关系。
Yet the spike in the number of Cubans seeking to leave may have as much to do with an increase in organised smuggling as with economic despair.
然而,寻求逃往美国的古巴人数量的剧增不仅源于人们对经济的绝望,还与有组织偷渡活动的增加有很大关系。
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