美国海岸警卫队表示:在过去八个月中,有3846位古巴人偷渡美国——在去年同期已很高的数字基础上又增加了7.5%。
The United States Coast Guard says that over the past eight months 3,846 Cubans have made the trip—a 7.5% increase on last year's already high figure for the same period.
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.
他在这里则是说那些偷渡到美国的人,要不就是通过row a boat(划船,和人名Roe同音),要不就是靠游到河对岸(wade是跋涉的意思))后来了解了更多的美国历史,我开始为自己是白人而有了负罪感。
Later on, I read so much about American history that I started to harbor white guilt.
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