【口语实战】为什么我更爱拉丁美洲胜过美国 · 美式英语地道表
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| 0:00 | I can't imagine myself living in the United States ever again, but I can imagine myself | 我无法想象自己再次生活在美国 但我可以想象自己 |
| 0:05 | spending the rest of my life in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲度过余生 |
| 0:07 | Here's why. | 这是为什么。 |
| 0:08 | First, let me introduce myself. | 首先,让我自我介绍一下。 |
| 0:09 | My name is Lau or Prof. Lau. | 我叫刘或教授 刘.. |
| 0:12 | I grew up in the United States. | 我在美国长大 |
| 0:13 | I lived there until I was 20, | 我住在那里直到我20岁, |
| 0:15 | and then I left and lived in Latin America for seven years approximately. | 然后我离开了,在拉丁美洲生活了七年左右。 |
| 0:19 | I lived in different | 我住的地方不一样 |
| 0:20 | countries, primarily in Ecuador, but I also spent time in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. | 国家,主要在厄瓜多尔,但我还在墨西哥、阿根廷和哥伦比亚度过了时间。 |
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| 1 | I can't imagine myself living in the United States ever again, but I can imagine myself | 我无法想象自己再次生活在美国 但我可以想象自己 |
| 2 | spending the rest of my life in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲度过余生 |
| 3 | Here's why. | 这是为什么。 |
| 4 | First, let me introduce myself. | 首先,让我自我介绍一下。 |
| 5 | My name is Lau or Prof. Lau. | 我叫刘或教授 刘.. |
| 6 | I grew up in the United States. | 我在美国长大 |
| 7 | I lived there until I was 20, | 我住在那里直到我20岁, |
| 8 | and then I left and lived in Latin America for seven years approximately. | 然后我离开了,在拉丁美洲生活了七年左右。 |
| 9 | I lived in different | 我住的地方不一样 |
| 10 | countries, primarily in Ecuador, but I also spent time in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. | 国家,主要在厄瓜多尔,但我还在墨西哥、阿根廷和哥伦比亚度过了时间。 |
| 11 | I've | 我见过 |
| 12 | realized in this video about Latin America because it consists of many countries. | 因为它包含许多国家。 |
| 13 | Not | 没有 |
| 14 | every country in Latin America has what I'm going to be talking about in this video or it might not | 拉丁美洲的每个国家都有我在录像里要讲的 也可能没有 |
| 15 | apply, but it's just based on my general experience. | 应用,但它只是根据 我的一般经验。 |
| 16 | So the first thing that I prefer in Latin America | 所以我在拉丁美洲最喜欢的 |
| 17 | is walkability. | 是可步行性。 |
| 18 | This is a great word, isn't it? | 这是一个伟大的词,不是吗? |
| 19 | Walkability, the ability to walk around, | 可走性,可以四处走动, |
| 20 | to walk to the store, to walk anywhere you need to go. | 步行到商店, 走任何你需要去的地方。 |
| 21 | You're going to see more people walking | 你会看到更多的人走路 |
| 22 | around, walking out and about, and this goes for big cities as well as small towns. | 周而复始,走出去,到处走走, 这既适用于大城市,也适用于小城镇。 |
| 23 | The thing is, | 事实是, |
| 24 | is that the way it is in my experience in Latin America is the people live in towns and cities | 我在拉丁美洲的经验是,人们生活在城镇中 |
| 25 | where everything is closer together. | 在那里,一切 更接近在一起。 |
| 26 | So it's easier to walk around. | 故曰易行. |
| 27 | Yeah, of course you can live way | 是啊,你当然可以活下去 |
| 28 | out in the countryside where it's not so easy maybe to walk to a store. | 在乡下,走进店里可不容易 |
| 29 | Of course, you can | 当然可以 |
| 30 | live super rural like that, but there often are little stores here and there or little places | 住超级乡村,但经常有 小商店在这里和那里或小地方 |
| 31 | where local farmers will sell their fruits and vegetables and stuff. | 当地农民将出售他们的水果、蔬菜和东西。 |
| 32 | So it's doable. | 故曰可办. |
| 33 | I spent | 我花了时间 |
| 34 | most of my time in Ecuador, which was a five and a half years living in rural places, living in | 我大部分时间在厄瓜多尔, 五年半生活在农村, |
| 35 | small towns. | 小镇 |
| 36 | I actually lived in the Amazon for four years. | 其实我在亚马逊住了四年 |
| 37 | I was always like a 20 minute bus ride | 我总是像20分钟的公交车 |
| 38 | from the nearest town or city that had everything. | 从最近的城镇或城市 拥有一切。 |
| 39 | It had hospitals and everything you need. | 它有医院和 你需要的一切。 |
| 40 | So I | 所以说 |
| 41 | wasn't that isolated, but even being on the countryside, there was always like some little | 虽然不是那么孤立,但即使到了农村, 总是像一些小 |
| 42 | store within walking distance, maybe just like a little corner store, a little store that has like | 在行走距离之内的商店, 也许就像一个小角落商店, 一个小商店,有喜欢 |
| 43 | some basic essential things. | 一些基本的必需品。 |
| 44 | And I mean, you can find that in the United States too, but I just | 我的意思是,你也可以在美国找到, 但我只是 |
| 45 | feel like they don't have as good of a selection and well, maybe it's cold and you don't really | 感觉他们没有 最好的选择,嗯, 也许它很冷,你不是真的 |
| 46 | want to walk or it's like snowing because I'm from the north of the U S so it's not as good for | 想走路还是下雪 因为我是来自美国北部 所以没有那么好 |
| 47 | walking to the store, but also everything is just farther. | 步行到商店, 但也一切只是更远。 |
| 48 | Everything is more spread out. | 一切众生更散. |
| 49 | Like I | 喜欢我 |
| 50 | grew up in a small town in Maine, but I feel like everything was so far away. | 成长于缅因州的一个小镇,但我觉得一切都很遥远. |
| 51 | Like all of my friends | 像我的朋友一样 |
| 52 | from school lived so far from me. | 学校离我很远 |
| 53 | I couldn't just walk to their house. | 我不能就这么走进他们家 |
| 54 | You know, there was some kids | 你知道,有一些孩子 |
| 55 | on my road, but we weren't really friends, so we didn't really hang out much sometimes, but the | 在我的路上,但我们不是真正的朋友, 所以我们没有真正挂出 很多时候,但 |
| 56 | friends that I had at school, I was just too far from. | 我在学校的朋友,我太远了。 |
| 57 | I couldn't go to their house, even though | 虽然我不能去他们家 |
| 58 | we were all technically in the same town. | 我们在技术上都在同一座城市。 |
| 59 | In a small town in Latin America, there's usually a | 在拉丁美洲的小镇上,通常有一个 |
| 60 | school and you see, you go by the school and you see all the kids and they're all like walking home | 学校,你看,你去学校 看到所有的孩子, 他们都像走回家 |
| 61 | together. | 一起来 |
| 62 | We'd always be in the Amazon and like this big group of little, little kids would always | 我们总是在亚马逊 像这群小小孩一样 |
| 63 | walk by me on their way, you know, walking home and they would always say like, good afternoon. | 在路上走过我,你知道,走回家 他们总是说,像,下午好。 |
| 64 | It's just so cute to see them all with their little backpacks and they and they all live | 看到他们都带着小背包 他们都活着 真是太可爱了 |
| 65 | close to each other and then they go to school together. | 然后他们一起上学 |
| 66 | They walk to school together. | 他们一起上学 |
| 67 | They walk | 他们走路 |
| 68 | home together and they're always together and they're not that far from each other. | 在一起,他们总是在一起, 他们没有那么远彼此。 |
| 69 | You know, | 你知道吗, |
| 70 | in my town, we had a lot of different buses just for different parts of the town, so | 在我的镇上,我们有很多不同的公共汽车 仅仅在镇上的不同地方,所以 |
| 71 | none of my friends were on my school bus because they lived in a different part of town. | 我的朋友都没有坐我的校车 因为他们住在镇上另一个地方 |
| 72 | So I only | 所以只有我一个人 |
| 73 | saw my friends at school, but of course our time at school was limited. | 在学校见过我的朋友, 但当然我们在学校的时间有限。 |
| 74 | So we really had to plan | 所以我们真的不得不计划 |
| 75 | to hang out outside of school and we had to ask our parents to drive us to see each other because | 我们不得不要求我们的父母 开车让我们见面,因为 |
| 76 | we couldn't just like go to each other's houses or walk home from school. | 我们不能只是喜欢去对方的家 或者从学校走回家。 |
| 77 | So it really felt | 所以感觉真的 |
| 78 | extremely limited socially. | 社会上极其有限。 |
| 79 | I felt often like I was just trapped in my house, my little house in | 我经常觉得自己被困在我家 我的小房子里 |
| 80 | the woods and I couldn't go anywhere and I couldn't do anything. | 树林和我不能去任何地方 我无能为力。 |
| 81 | Continuing with that similar idea, | 继续这个想法, |
| 82 | I want to talk about public transportation. | 我想谈谈公共交通问题。 |
| 83 | This is another huge problem in the United States. | 这是美国另一个巨大的问题. |
| 84 | Basically, there's no public transportation in the United States outside of very urban areas. | 基本上,在非常城市地区以外,美国没有公共交通. |
| 85 | So in | 这么说吧 |
| 86 | very urban city areas, you do have maybe a metro if you live in a really big city or you have city | 如果你住在一个真正的大城市 或者有城市,你确实有地铁 |
| 87 | buses, but a lot of people in the United States just simply don't live in those urban areas. | 巴士,但美国很多人 只是没有住在那些城市地区。 |
| 88 | Like the original American dream, which I don't know if it's really still alive, but that was to | 就像最初的美国梦, 我不知道它是否真的还活着, 但那就是 |
| 89 | live in the suburbs with your family, not to live in these super urban areas. | 住在郊区与你的家人, 不是生活在这些超级城市地区。 |
| 90 | So a lot of people that | 所以很多人都这样 |
| 91 | have families and have kids, they live in the suburbs or they live in the countryside. | 有家庭和孩子,他们住在郊区或农村。 |
| 92 | Basically, | 基本上说 |
| 93 | you need to have a car. | 你需要有车。 |
| 94 | I feel like we all know this by now. | 我觉得我们现在都知道了 |
| 95 | I feel like I'm not saying anything | 我好像什么都没说 |
| 96 | new, but United States, you have to have a car. | 新的,但美国, 你必须有车。 |
| 97 | It's all based around having a car. | 这都是围绕有车。 |
| 98 | The whole | 整个 |
| 99 | country was like built around everybody having a car, the whole system with the roads and the | 国家就像所有拥有汽车的人一样 整个系统都有道路 |
| 100 | parking lots. | 停车场。 |
| 101 | And personally, I love not having a car. | 我个人喜欢没有车 |
| 102 | Like I lived in the countryside for years | 就像我住在乡下多年 |
| 103 | in Latin America and relied almost exclusively on buses with the occasional taxi ride. | 在拉丁美洲,几乎完全依赖巴士,偶尔乘坐出租车。 |
| 104 | They have | 他们有 |
| 105 | like colectivos sometimes in some places, like in Mexico, super cheap, like shared taxi. | 在一些地方,像墨西哥,超级便宜,像共享出租车。 |
| 106 | It's just | 这只是 |
| 107 | so easy. | 这么容易。 |
| 108 | It's just so convenient to use public transportation anywhere you are. | 随便你在哪里使用公共交通就太方便了 |
| 109 | Even in the | 即使是在 |
| 110 | countryside, you don't need to have a car. | 乡下,你不需要有车。 |
| 111 | Obviously it's going to make life easier in | 很明显,这会让生活变得更容易 |
| 112 | ways if you have a car, but you don't need it. | 如果你有车,你不需要车 |
| 113 | I generally just feel like transportation | 我一般只是觉得自己喜欢搭便车 |
| 114 | period is easier in Latin America. | 拉丁美洲的时期比较容易。 |
| 115 | Also, especially because of the more tropical climates, | 而且,特别是因为气候比较热带, |
| 116 | you can have like a motorcycle. | 你可以有像摩托车一样。 |
| 117 | There are moto taxis like in Columbia, for example, | 例如,哥伦比亚有摩托出租车 |
| 118 | there's a lot of options that just don't exist in the U S to live in the United States. | 有很多选择 在美国并不存在 在美国生活。 |
| 119 | You're just | 你刚刚 |
| 120 | going to end up having a car, but there's a really high risk of getting in an accident. | 但发生意外的风险很高 |
| 121 | Like every | 就像每个 |
| 122 | day I would see car accidents on the highways, on the, on the side of the road is extremely | 那天我看到公路上的车祸 路边的车祸非常严重 |
| 123 | common. | 常见。 |
| 124 | The car accidents happen all the time in the U S because there's just so many cars in the | 车祸在美国时常发生 因为里面有很多车 |
| 125 | road and some parts of the country, they have like four or five, six lane highways. | 公路和一些地方有四、五、六车道高速公路。 |
| 126 | It looks like such | 看起来是这样 |
| 127 | a big waste of metal and material. | 大量浪费金属和材料。 |
| 128 | And we're all going to like relatively the same part of town, | 我们都会喜欢 相对相同的城市部分, |
| 129 | the same area. | 同一个区域。 |
| 130 | And we just have all these cars, like five lanes of cars, and we're all just one | 我们只有这些车,就像五车道, 我们都只是一 |
| 131 | person in each car. | 在每辆车上的人。 |
| 132 | It just doesn't seem efficient. | 似乎没有效率 |
| 133 | It seems silly. | 这似乎很傻。 |
| 134 | And you'd think that for United | 你会认为,联合 |
| 135 | States claiming to be a developed country, that it would have a much more developed transportation | 自称是发达国家的国家,将拥有更为发达的运输 |
| 136 | system. | 系统。 |
| 137 | I don't know, maybe like some high speed trains, some like really nice trains that go | 我不知道,也许像一些高速列车, 有些像真正的好火车去 |
| 138 | everywhere, like some countries in Asia have in Europe. | 到处都是,像亚洲的一些国家 在欧洲。 |
| 139 | In that aspect, I think the U S is | 在这方面,我认为美国是 |
| 140 | extremely underdeveloped, even though Latin America might not have the most developed | 尽管拉丁美洲可能没有最发达的 |
| 141 | transportation system in the world. | 世界交通系统。 |
| 142 | I still prefer the way it is now than in the United States. | 我还是更喜欢现在的样子 而不是在美国。 |
| 143 | The | 那个 |
| 144 | next thing that I prefer in Latin America is one of my favorite things. | 接下来我更喜欢在拉丁美洲的东西 是我最喜欢的东西之一。 |
| 145 | This changes depending on | 这种变化取决于 |
| 146 | the country and the region, but generally fruit and vegetables and produce and farmers markets are | 水果、蔬菜、农产品和农民市场 |
| 147 | much more abundant and accessible and affordable than in the United States. | 比美国更丰富、更方便、更负担得起。 |
| 148 | United States farmers | 美国农民 |
| 149 | markets is more of like a luxury thing. | 市场更像是奢侈品 |
| 150 | It's often more expensive. | 往往更贵. |
| 151 | It's often only available | 经常只能买到 |
| 152 | in very specific places on very specific days. | 在非常具体的日子里 |
| 153 | It's something that you have to like research and | 这是你喜欢研究的东西 |
| 154 | figure out like, okay, where are the farmers markets? | 想想看,好的,农民市场在哪里? |
| 155 | Because it's not something that everybody | 因为不是每个人都喜欢这样 |
| 156 | participates in. | 参加。 |
| 157 | It's not just a normal aspect of life like it is in Latin America. | 这不仅仅是生活的一个正常方面 像它在拉丁美洲。 |
| 158 | In Latin America, | 在拉丁美洲, |
| 159 | these markets are often open all the time, every day. | 这些市场经常每天开放。 |
| 160 | People are selling fresh produce from their | 人们在销售新鲜产品 |
| 161 | farm. | 农场。 |
| 162 | It's often cheaper than going to the store. | 经常比去商店便宜. |
| 163 | Additionally, you can find small stores that | 此外,你可以找到一些小商店 |
| 164 | specifically just sell produce like fruterias and these little tiendas that have fruits and | 具体来说,只是销售产物 像果冻 和这些小龙卷风 有水果和 |
| 165 | vegetables. | 菜类 |
| 166 | In Ecuador, you can find those on every single corner. | 在厄瓜多尔,你可以在每个角落找到这些。 |
| 167 | I think it was more accessible | 我觉得更方便 |
| 168 | there than anywhere else. | 那里比其他任何地方都远。 |
| 169 | But even like in Argentina, I was expecting there to not be so | 但是,即使在阿根廷, 我期望不会是这样 |
| 170 | many fruterias everywhere, like little fruit stores. | 像小水果店一样 |
| 171 | And actually I was surprised. | 其实我很惊讶 |
| 172 | There were, | 曾经, |
| 173 | there were a lot. | 有很多东西 |
| 174 | The United States, we basically don't have little fruit stores. | 美国,我们基本上没有小水果店。 |
| 175 | We don't have | 我们没有 |
| 176 | fruit and vegetable stores. | 水果蔬菜商店。 |
| 177 | We don't have a lot of small stores in general, right? | 我们一般没有多少小商店,对吧? |
| 178 | We just have these | 我们只有这些 |
| 179 | giant grocery stores, supermarket. | 大型杂货店,超市。 |
| 180 | So anytime you need fruits or vegetables, little basic food items, | 所以每当你需要水果或蔬菜, 基本食物, |
| 181 | you always have to go to the supermarket because what are you going to go to the gas station? | 你总得去超市 因为你要去加油站干什么? |
| 182 | You're | 琌 |
| 183 | going to get some ice cream. | 去拿点冰激凌 |
| 184 | You're going to get some junk food. | 你会得到一些垃圾食品。 |
| 185 | We don't have healthy food at | 我们没有健康的食物 |
| 186 | little convenience stores and gas stations. | 小便利店和加油站。 |
| 187 | So you have to go to the grocery store. | 所以你必须去杂货店 |
| 188 | That's like | 这就像 |
| 189 | the only place you can get real food. | 唯一的地方,你可以得到真正的食物。 |
| 190 | And even a lot of the produce, a lot of the food at the | 甚至很多产品, 很多食物在 |
| 191 | grocery store is a little suspicious and sometimes doesn't taste very good and just not as good | 杂货店有点可疑,有时味道不好,只是没有那么好 |
| 192 | quality as in Latin America as well. | 质量和拉丁美洲一样。 |
| 193 | One of my favorite things about being in Mexico is going | 我最喜欢的一件事 在墨西哥是去 |
| 194 | to the Tianguis, the big street market where you can get all your groceries, all your produce every | 到天贵家,大街市 你可以在那里得到所有的东西, 所有你的产品 |
| 195 | day in Ecuador. | 在厄瓜多尔。 |
| 196 | I could go to town and I could see people selling stuff from their farm every | 我可以去镇上 看到人们从农场里卖东西 |
| 197 | single day. | 单日. |
| 198 | You could buy stuff right from the jungle, like I was in the Amazon, ayahuasca in a | 你可以从丛林里买东西 就像我在亚马逊一样 |
| 199 | bottle to rare jungle fruits and medicine to all kinds of things. | 瓶子到稀有丛林水果 和药物到各种各样的东西。 |
| 200 | They're basic, you know, | 他们是基本的,你知道的, |
| 201 | bananas, papayas. | 香蕉,木瓜,s. |
| 202 | They're selling chicha, like the drink, you know, fermented drink. | 他们卖Chicha, 像饮料,你知道的,发酵饮料。 |
| 203 | I love market | 我喜欢市场 |
| 204 | culture and I really hope it doesn't go away and I'm scared for future generations. | 我非常希望它不会消失 我害怕后代。 |
| 205 | I'm afraid that | 我担心 |
| 206 | we're going to be losing this in Latin America. | 我们将在拉丁美洲失去它。 |
| 207 | It's going to become more like the United States. | 它会变得更像美国。 |
| 208 | I mean, I hope that doesn't happen, but if it does happen, I hope at least we still maintain | 我的意思是,我希望这不会发生, 但如果它真的发生, 我希望至少我们仍然保持 |
| 209 | the fruiterias. | 果园。 |
| 210 | I hope we still have all these little stores everywhere and it's not going to | 我希望我们还有这些小店铺 |
| 211 | be just like everything at the grocery store and that's it. | 就像杂货店里的一切 就这样 |
| 212 | Everything at the big supermarket and | 在大超市的一切,还有, |
| 213 | that's it. | 就这样 |
| 214 | That would be really sad. | 那会很伤心的 |
| 215 | But until that happens, if it does happen, Latin America is | 但在此之前,如果真的发生,拉丁美洲就是 |
| 216 | better than the United States in that aspect. | 在这方面,比美国好。 |
| 217 | Also, the fact that it's a lot of it is tropical | 而且,它有很多是热带的 |
| 218 | and you can get tropical fruits much more easily than you can get in the United States. | 并且你可以得到热带水果 比在美国容易得多。 |
| 219 | You can get | 你可以来 |
| 220 | fruits that you can't even find in the US and much better quality and much cheaper. | 在美国连水果都找不到 质量好很多 价格便宜很多 |
| 221 | It's sad. | 悲'. |
| 222 | A lot | 许多 |
| 223 | of my family has only had the really horrible mangoes that they sell in the grocery store in | 我家只有可怕的芒果 他们卖在杂货店 |
| 224 | Maine, where I'm from. | 缅因州,我出身的地方. |
| 225 | To me, those mangoes are just absolute trash. | 对我来说,那些芒果只是绝对的垃圾。 |
| 226 | Even if they're shipped in | 即使他们被运进来 |
| 227 | from like Mexico or wherever, they're still just like horrible mangoes. | 从墨西哥或任何地方, 他们仍然就像可怕的芒果。 |
| 228 | I have really high standards | 我有很高的标准 |
| 229 | for fruits, just like you have to go to the country and you have to find the good fruit. | 就像你必须去乡下 找到好水果一样 |
| 230 | I spent my whole childhood without ever having a fresh mango, a papaya. | 我整个童年都没吃过芒果,木瓜 |
| 231 | I never knew what these | 我不知道这些是什么 |
| 232 | were, you know, because I never tried more than one kind of banana. | 因为我从未试过不止一种香蕉 |
| 233 | I don't want to live like that | 我不想那样生活 |
| 234 | ever again. | 从此以后 |
| 235 | So I want to live in a place with abundant tropical fruit that's very accessible | 所以我想住在一个有丰富的热带水果的地方,这些水果非常容易获取 |
| 236 | and affordable and good quality. | 价格低廉,质量好 |
| 237 | The next reason why I love most of Latin America is the climate. | 接下来,我爱拉丁美洲大部分地区的原因是气候。 |
| 238 | I really like warm tropical climates, but the cool thing about Latin America is that there's | 我真的很喜欢温暖的热带气候 但拉丁美洲最酷的是 |
| 239 | a lot of elevation. | 很多高处。 |
| 240 | There's a lot of mountains. | 山多'. |
| 241 | So if you get tired of the heat or you want | 所以,如果你厌倦了热或你想 |
| 242 | something a little bit in between, like not too cold, not too hot, a lot of the more popular | 有点在中间, 像不太冷, 不太热, 很多更受欢迎 |
| 243 | cities in Latin America are actually at an elevation that create this kind of eternal spring | 拉丁美洲的城市实际上处在高地上 创造了这种永恒的春天 |
| 244 | type climate or even like living in the Andes or, you know, places that are a bit cold, | 气候类型 或甚至像 生活在安第斯山脉 或,你知道,地方 有点冷, |
| 245 | especially in the nighttime. | 特别是晚上 |
| 246 | It's still not as cold as where I'm from in Maine. | 还没我来自缅因州的地方那么冷 |
| 247 | You know, | 你知道吗, |
| 248 | it doesn't get snow. | 它不会下雪。 |
| 249 | It's not freezing cold. | 冷不冻. |
| 250 | So it's really nice. | 所以这是真的很好。 |
| 251 | I feel like no matter what | 无论怎样,我都觉得 |
| 252 | your preferences are, you can find a climate that you really love in Latin America. | 你的喜好是,你可以找到一个 你真正喜欢的气候 在拉丁美洲。 |
| 253 | The United | 联合国 |
| 254 | States, you have different kinds of climates, of course, but the South is just extremely hot | 当然,各国气候不同,但南方非常炎热 |
| 255 | in the summer and the North is extremely cold in the winter. | 在夏季,北方在冬季极度寒冷。 |
| 256 | So you have these extremes. | 所以你有这些极端。 |
| 257 | When I was in Ecuador and Colombia and Mexico, I never experienced so much heat as they experience | 当我在厄瓜多尔,哥伦比亚和墨西哥时, 我从来没有经历过这么多的热 因为他们经历 |
| 258 | in the South of the United States in the summer. | 夏天在美国南部 |
| 259 | So people tend to think that, oh, just because | 所以人们往往认为,哦,只是因为 |
| 260 | you're near the equator, it's going to be super hot. | 你接近赤道了,会非常炎热 |
| 261 | It's just not true because there's just so | 这不是真的 因为有如此 |
| 262 | much elevation in these countries. | 这些国家的海拔很大。 |
| 263 | I've actually been really cold a lot, like traveling in the | 其实我一直很冷, 像旅行在 |
| 264 | Andes and being in Mexico City sometimes and even Oaxaca City in the nighttime in the winter. | 安第斯山脉和有时在墨西哥城,甚至晚上在冬天的瓦哈卡市. |
| 265 | Yeah, it gets cold. | 是啊,它变得冷。 |
| 266 | Quito in Ecuador is really freaking cold. | 在厄瓜多尔的基多真的太冷了。 |
| 267 | Quito is a really cold city. | 基多是个冷酷的城市 |
| 268 | The next thing that's better in Latin America than the U.S. is the health care. | 接下来在拉丁美洲比美国更好的是医疗保健. |
| 269 | This is a huge | 这是巨大的 |
| 270 | topic. | 主题。 |
| 271 | The health care in the U.S. is just so disproportional to the salary. | 美国的医疗服务 与工资不成比例 |
| 272 | The cost of it | 费用 |
| 273 | is just absolutely insane. | 简直是疯了 |
| 274 | It's a joke. | 这是一个笑话。 |
| 275 | It's a laughing stock of the world. | 世间笑股. |
| 276 | And the quality | 还有质量 |
| 277 | is just average. | 只是一个普通的。 |
| 278 | It's actually not better. | 这其实不是更好。 |
| 279 | The quality is not proportional to the cost. | 质量与成本不相称. |
| 280 | I got cavities fixed in my teeth in Ecuador for like $20 a tooth. | 在厄瓜多尔我牙齿上修了个洞 每颗20美元 |
| 281 | $20 is like one day of minimum | 二十块就像最少一天 |
| 282 | wage salary in Ecuador. | 厄瓜多尔的工资。 |
| 283 | To fix a tooth in the U.S. is not the cost of one day of minimum wage salary | 在美国修牙不是一天最低工资的代价 |
| 284 | in the U.S. We wish. | 在美国,我们希望。 |
| 285 | No, it's more than that. | 不 不止这样 |
| 286 | You need to have health insurance or you're screwed. | 你需要医疗保险 否则你就完了 |
| 287 | When I was in Buenos Aires, I got a doctor checkup. | 当我在布宜诺斯艾利斯的时候,我得到了一个医生检查。 |
| 288 | I think it was like $10. | 我想是10块 |
| 289 | Seriously, | 说真的, |
| 290 | like $10. | 像10块。 |
| 291 | Even when I was in Mexico City, I was in one of the more expensive neighborhoods, | 即使我在墨西哥城, 我在一个比较昂贵的街区, |
| 292 | Roma, and I went to a dentist in that neighborhood and I got a wisdom tooth pulled for like $100. | 罗马,我去了一个牙医 在那个街区,我得到了一个智慧的牙齿拉大约100美元。 |
| 293 | And I'm sure you can get it way cheaper in a different part of the city or in a different | 我敢肯定,你可以得到它 便宜的方式在城市的另一部分或不同的 |
| 294 | part of Mexico. | 墨西哥的一部分。 |
| 295 | But that was like the expensive dentist cost was like $100 to get a tooth pulled. | 但是,那就像昂贵的牙医 费用是100美元 得到一个牙拔。 |
| 296 | Also, the service in my experience is better. | 而且,我的经验是更好的服务。 |
| 297 | I had a more one-on-one genuine interaction with | 我有一个更一对一 真正的互动 |
| 298 | the dentist, the doctor. | 牙医,医生 |
| 299 | I felt they weren't rushing me. | 我觉得他们没催我 |
| 300 | I felt like I could ask them anything | 我觉得我可以问他们什么 |
| 301 | or talk to them about anything. | 或者和他们谈任何事 |
| 302 | Another thing that's horrible about U.S. health care is that | 美国医疗的另一件可怕的事情是 |
| 303 | when you try to book an appointment, they're often booked for months. | 当你试图预约时, 他们经常被预订几个月。 |
| 304 | So you have to schedule | 所以,你必须安排 |
| 305 | an appointment for like three months from now. | 约三个月后 |
| 306 | They don't have much availability. | 他们没有太多可用的。 |
| 307 | But anytime | 但随时 |
| 308 | in Latin America that I needed to schedule an appointment, I literally just look them up on | 在拉丁美洲,我需要安排一个约会, 我从字面上看他们 |
| 309 | Google Maps. | 谷歌地图. |
| 310 | I get their number. | 我得到了他们的号码。 |
| 311 | I usually just text them on WhatsApp and say like, | 我通常只会在WhatsApp上发短信说 |
| 312 | they usually tell me either that day or the next day or within like one to two days they're | 他们通常告诉我 无论是那一天,还是第二天 或在一到两天之内 |
| 313 | available. | 可用。 |
| 314 | And we schedule the appointment and I go and they see me immediately. | 我们安排了约会,我马上去他们那里 |
| 315 | And then even | 然后连 |
| 316 | after the appointment, oftentimes they will message you or you can just text them to schedule like a | 预约后,他们常常会给你留言,或者你可以发短信给他们 安排像一个 |
| 317 | follow-up appointment if you need. | 如有需要,可进行后续预约。 |
| 318 | I'm not an expert on this topic, but I have gotten the general | 我不是这个话题的专家 但我得到了将军 |
| 319 | impression that in a lot of countries in Latin America, there is free public health care and | 认为在拉丁美洲的许多国家,免费的公共卫生保健以及 |
| 320 | there's also private health care that you can pay for. | 也有私人医疗费用。 |
| 321 | So you have like two different options. | 所以你有两种不同的选择。 |
| 322 | I'm not even asking for free health care in the U.S. | 我甚至不 要求免费保健 在美国。 |
| 323 | I'm just asking for affordable health care. | 我只是要求 负担得起的医疗保健。 |
| 324 | And it's just, it's not. | 且道,则不然. |
| 325 | And I would be very afraid to live there, especially as I get older. | 我将非常害怕住在那里, 特别是当我长大了。 |
| 326 | And I have heard of a lot of older people leaving the U.S. because of the health care, | 我听说过很多老人因为医疗原因离开美国 |
| 327 | because it's just way too expensive and they find just as good care a lot more affordable | 因为这太贵了 而且他们也觉得 照顾得很好 更能负担得起 |
| 328 | in other countries. | 在其他国家。 |
| 329 | That's actually one of the top reasons of why a lot of older like retired | 这其实是很多老人像退休一样的原因之一 |
| 330 | people from the U.S. will leave the country. | 来自美国的人会离开这个国家 |
| 331 | The final thing that I love about Latin America | 我最爱拉丁美洲的最后一件事 |
| 332 | that I prefer, it's really personal to me. | 我更喜欢,这对我而言是私人恩怨 |
| 333 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 334 | This might not matter to you, but to me, | 这也许对你无关紧要 但对我来说 |
| 335 | I just love Spanish and I also love Portuguese. | 我热爱西班牙语 我也热爱葡萄牙语 |
| 336 | I speak Spanish and I also speak Portuguese, | 我讲西班牙语,我也讲葡萄牙语, |
| 337 | not as fluent, but I'm, I'm working on it. | 没有那么流利,但我,我在努力。 |
| 338 | I just love these languages so much and I love, | 我只是很喜欢这些语言,我爱, |
| 339 | especially how they're spoken in Latin America as opposed to in Europe. | 尤其是在拉丁美洲 而不是欧洲 |
| 340 | I really love living | 我真的很喜欢活着 |
| 341 | in countries where I can practice and use my language skills all the time and I can always | 在那些我随时可以练习和运用语言能力的国家 我永远可以 |
| 342 | improve and, and people are just very happy to talk to me and, and help me with that. | 改进和,人们只是 很高兴和我说话, 和帮助我做到这一点。 |
| 343 | And also | 还有 |
| 344 | a lot of them either know some English or some other language, or they think that it's important | 很多人要么懂英语 要么懂其他语言 要么他们认为这很重要 |
| 345 | or it's good to learn another language. | 或者学习另一种语言是好的。 |
| 346 | And maybe partially because of, you know, it's been taught | 可能部分是因为,你知道,它已经学会了 |
| 347 | to them that they should learn English, but it's just refreshing after living in the United States | 对他们来说,他们应该学习英语, 但是它只是新鲜 后在美国生活 |
| 348 | and being among a lot of people who only speak English and have absolutely no motivation to learn | 成为许多只说英语的人 绝对没有学习的动力 |
| 349 | another language. | 另一种语言。 |
| 350 | It's hard for me to connect to these kinds of people. | 我很难跟这种人联系 |
| 351 | I think a lot of people | 我觉得很多人 |
| 352 | in the U.S., not everybody, but I think there are a lot of people, especially older generations, | 在美国,不是每个人, 但我认为有很多人, 特别是老一代, |
| 353 | they're living in this kind of United States bubble where that is like their whole reality, | 他们生活在这种美国泡沫中 在那里就像他们的全部现实 |
| 354 | their whole world, and they don't really think about anything outside of that. | 他们的世界, 他们不真正思考 任何之外。 |
| 355 | I think it really | 我觉得真的 |
| 356 | blocks their development as a person and as somebody who travels to many different countries | 阻碍他们作为一个人和旅行到许多国家的人的发展 |
| 357 | and tries to learn other languages, it's, it's kind of hard for me to, to connect to those kind of | 尝试学习其他语言, 这是,它有点困难 我,连接到这些类型的 |
| 358 | people. | 人们 |
| 359 | I connect more with like people of the world, you know, not just people from the United | 我和全世界的人联系得更紧密 不仅仅是来自美国的人 |
| 360 | States. | 国家。 |
| 361 | I connect with travelers and people who have, you know, a broader reference of what life | 我和旅行者和人们有联系 他们有,你知道,一个更广泛的参考 生活 |
| 362 | looks like. | 看起来像。 |
| 363 | I think it's really important for us to have that. | 我认为拥有这个对我们很重要 |
| 364 | But yes, also just for selfish reasons, | 但是,是的,同样出于自私的原因, |
| 365 | I love living in countries that speak Spanish because I can speak Spanish and I love speaking | 我喜欢住在说西班牙语的国家 因为我会说西班牙语 我喜欢说 |
| 366 | Spanish. | 西班牙语。 |
| 367 | So I'm sure that there are other reasons why I prefer Latin America over the U.S. | 所以我相信还有其他原因 我更喜欢拉丁美洲而不是美国 |
| 368 | There's | 还有 |
| 369 | also things I prefer in the U.S. compared to Latin America. | 和拉丁美洲相比 我更喜欢美国的东西 |
| 370 | So it's not like everything is perfect in | 所以,它不是像 一切是完美的在 |
| 371 | Latin America and everything's bad in the U.S. Of course not. | 拉丁美洲和在美国一切都很糟糕 当然不是 |
| 372 | There are pros and cons to living | 活着有利弊 |
| 373 | in both places. | 在两个地方。 |
| 374 | If you live in the U.S. and you love living there, fantastic. | 如果你住在美国 你喜欢住在那里,太棒了。 |
| 375 | You got to listen | 你得听着 |
| 376 | to what feels right for you. | 让你觉得很合适 |
| 377 | I'm just sharing in this video why I don't think I will live in the | 我只是分享这段视频,为什么我不认为我会生活在 |
| 378 | U.S. ever again. | 复次美国. |
| 379 | As much as my family doesn't want to hear that and would love for me to live there, | 虽然我的家人不想听到这些 也希望我住在那里 |
| 380 | it just doesn't feel right for me and my journey in my life. | 这对我和我的旅程都不好 |
| 381 | If you're learning English, if you're | 如果你学习英语,如果你是 |
| 382 | working on your English comprehension, you can tell me in the comments how much you understood. | 你可以在评论中告诉我 你理解多少 |
| 383 | I'm sure you guys will also tell me about your opinions and what you think. | 我相信你们也会告诉我 你们的意见和想法 |
| 384 | I understand that | 我理解你的话 |
| 385 | I'm coming to this topic with some privilege. | 我以某种特权来讨论这个话题 |
| 386 | I have the privilege of being able to choose | 我有幸能够选择 |
| 387 | which one. | 哪个? |
| 388 | Some people don't even have the option of really being able to choose the United States, | 有些人甚至没有选择 真正能够选择美国, |
| 389 | but I don't think I have the privilege of money, you know, being able to live in Latin America with | 但我不认为我有钱的特权, 你知道, 能够生活在拉丁美洲与 |
| 390 | so much more money, which makes it better. | 这么多钱, 这使得它更好。 |
| 391 | Because actually the entire time I lived in Ecuador, | 因为实际上我住在厄瓜多尔的整个时间, |
| 392 | I was making basically like an Ecuadorian's minimum wage salary. | 我赚的基本上就像厄瓜多尔人的最低工资。 |
| 393 | I was not making very | 我没有做很多 |
| 394 | If I have to make minimum wage and have a low salary, I would rather do that in Latin America | 如果我必须做最低工资 和低工资, 我宁愿这样做 在拉丁美洲 |
| 395 | than in the U.S. because it will still be easier for me in Latin America to find a cheap room to | 比在美国要好,因为在拉丁美洲我找一个便宜的房间 |
| 396 | rent, to use public transportation, to walk, to get health care. | 出租,使用公共交通,步行,就医. |
| 397 | If you live on minimum wage in | 若您以最低工资生活于 |
| 398 | the U.S., you're probably going to struggle a lot more. | 美国,你可能要挣扎得多。 |
| 399 | You can't even go get like a cheap almuerzo | 你甚至不能去得到像一个廉价的almuerzo |
| 400 | at like a little local restaurant. | 像个当地的餐馆 |
| 401 | We don't have that in the U.S., you know, where they make one | 我们在美国没有,你知道,他们在哪里制造的 |
| 402 | meal for everybody. | 给大家吃 |
| 403 | Therefore, it's cheaper and you can go have that for lunch and then you can go | 因此,它更便宜,你可以去 吃午餐,然后你可以去 |
| 404 | get cheap quality food at the farmer's market. | 在农民市场买到廉价优质食品。 |
| 405 | Also, if you need to make money, you can always | 而且,如果你需要赚钱,你可以永远 |
| 406 | sell things on the street in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲街头卖东西 |
| 407 | You can't in the U.S. You're not allowed to just go | 不能在美国. 你不能就这么走了 |
| 408 | out and sell things on the street. | 在街上卖东西 |
| 409 | So because of this, I always say if you're going to be poor, | 因此,我总是说,如果你要贫穷, |
| 410 | it's better to be poor in Latin America than in the United States. | 拉丁美洲的穷人比美国要好 |
| 411 | The United States has a huge | 美国有一个巨大的 |
| 412 | homelessness problem now. | 现在的无家可归问题。 |
| 413 | All right, so that's basically everything I wanted to say in this | 好吧,基本上这就是我想说的 |
| 414 | video. | 视频。 |
| 415 | I probably forgot some things, but thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. | 我可能忘了一些事情, 但是谢谢你的观看 我会看到你在下一个视频。 |
| 416 | Don't forget to like and subscribe. | 别忘了喜欢和订阅 |
| 417 | It helps me a lot. | 这对我很有帮助 |
| 418 | And yeah, turn on the notifications so you | 是啊,打开通知,所以你 |
| 419 | know when I post another video. | 知道当我发布另一个视频。 |
| 420 | All right, see you. | 好吧,再见。 |
| 421 | Bye bye. | 再见 |
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| 0:00 | I can't imagine myself living in the United States ever again, but I can imagine myself | 我无法想象自己再次生活在美国 但我可以想象自己 |
| 0:05 | spending the rest of my life in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲度过余生 |
| 0:07 | Here's why. | 这是为什么。 |
| 0:08 | First, let me introduce myself. | 首先,让我自我介绍一下。 |
| 0:09 | My name is Lau or Prof. Lau. | 我叫刘或教授 刘.. |
| 0:12 | I grew up in the United States. | 我在美国长大 |
| 0:13 | I lived there until I was 20, | 我住在那里直到我20岁, |
| 0:15 | and then I left and lived in Latin America for seven years approximately. | 然后我离开了,在拉丁美洲生活了七年左右。 |
| 0:19 | I lived in different | 我住的地方不一样 |
| 0:20 | countries, primarily in Ecuador, but I also spent time in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. | 国家,主要在厄瓜多尔,但我还在墨西哥、阿根廷和哥伦比亚度过了时间。 |
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| 1 | I can't imagine myself living in the United States ever again, but I can imagine myself | 我无法想象自己再次生活在美国 但我可以想象自己 |
| 2 | spending the rest of my life in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲度过余生 |
| 3 | Here's why. | 这是为什么。 |
| 4 | First, let me introduce myself. | 首先,让我自我介绍一下。 |
| 5 | My name is Lau or Prof. Lau. | 我叫刘或教授 刘.. |
| 6 | I grew up in the United States. | 我在美国长大 |
| 7 | I lived there until I was 20, | 我住在那里直到我20岁, |
| 8 | and then I left and lived in Latin America for seven years approximately. | 然后我离开了,在拉丁美洲生活了七年左右。 |
| 9 | I lived in different | 我住的地方不一样 |
| 10 | countries, primarily in Ecuador, but I also spent time in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. | 国家,主要在厄瓜多尔,但我还在墨西哥、阿根廷和哥伦比亚度过了时间。 |
| 11 | I've | 我见过 |
| 12 | realized in this video about Latin America because it consists of many countries. | 因为它包含许多国家。 |
| 13 | Not | 没有 |
| 14 | every country in Latin America has what I'm going to be talking about in this video or it might not | 拉丁美洲的每个国家都有我在录像里要讲的 也可能没有 |
| 15 | apply, but it's just based on my general experience. | 应用,但它只是根据 我的一般经验。 |
| 16 | So the first thing that I prefer in Latin America | 所以我在拉丁美洲最喜欢的 |
| 17 | is walkability. | 是可步行性。 |
| 18 | This is a great word, isn't it? | 这是一个伟大的词,不是吗? |
| 19 | Walkability, the ability to walk around, | 可走性,可以四处走动, |
| 20 | to walk to the store, to walk anywhere you need to go. | 步行到商店, 走任何你需要去的地方。 |
| 21 | You're going to see more people walking | 你会看到更多的人走路 |
| 22 | around, walking out and about, and this goes for big cities as well as small towns. | 周而复始,走出去,到处走走, 这既适用于大城市,也适用于小城镇。 |
| 23 | The thing is, | 事实是, |
| 24 | is that the way it is in my experience in Latin America is the people live in towns and cities | 我在拉丁美洲的经验是,人们生活在城镇中 |
| 25 | where everything is closer together. | 在那里,一切 更接近在一起。 |
| 26 | So it's easier to walk around. | 故曰易行. |
| 27 | Yeah, of course you can live way | 是啊,你当然可以活下去 |
| 28 | out in the countryside where it's not so easy maybe to walk to a store. | 在乡下,走进店里可不容易 |
| 29 | Of course, you can | 当然可以 |
| 30 | live super rural like that, but there often are little stores here and there or little places | 住超级乡村,但经常有 小商店在这里和那里或小地方 |
| 31 | where local farmers will sell their fruits and vegetables and stuff. | 当地农民将出售他们的水果、蔬菜和东西。 |
| 32 | So it's doable. | 故曰可办. |
| 33 | I spent | 我花了时间 |
| 34 | most of my time in Ecuador, which was a five and a half years living in rural places, living in | 我大部分时间在厄瓜多尔, 五年半生活在农村, |
| 35 | small towns. | 小镇 |
| 36 | I actually lived in the Amazon for four years. | 其实我在亚马逊住了四年 |
| 37 | I was always like a 20 minute bus ride | 我总是像20分钟的公交车 |
| 38 | from the nearest town or city that had everything. | 从最近的城镇或城市 拥有一切。 |
| 39 | It had hospitals and everything you need. | 它有医院和 你需要的一切。 |
| 40 | So I | 所以说 |
| 41 | wasn't that isolated, but even being on the countryside, there was always like some little | 虽然不是那么孤立,但即使到了农村, 总是像一些小 |
| 42 | store within walking distance, maybe just like a little corner store, a little store that has like | 在行走距离之内的商店, 也许就像一个小角落商店, 一个小商店,有喜欢 |
| 43 | some basic essential things. | 一些基本的必需品。 |
| 44 | And I mean, you can find that in the United States too, but I just | 我的意思是,你也可以在美国找到, 但我只是 |
| 45 | feel like they don't have as good of a selection and well, maybe it's cold and you don't really | 感觉他们没有 最好的选择,嗯, 也许它很冷,你不是真的 |
| 46 | want to walk or it's like snowing because I'm from the north of the U S so it's not as good for | 想走路还是下雪 因为我是来自美国北部 所以没有那么好 |
| 47 | walking to the store, but also everything is just farther. | 步行到商店, 但也一切只是更远。 |
| 48 | Everything is more spread out. | 一切众生更散. |
| 49 | Like I | 喜欢我 |
| 50 | grew up in a small town in Maine, but I feel like everything was so far away. | 成长于缅因州的一个小镇,但我觉得一切都很遥远. |
| 51 | Like all of my friends | 像我的朋友一样 |
| 52 | from school lived so far from me. | 学校离我很远 |
| 53 | I couldn't just walk to their house. | 我不能就这么走进他们家 |
| 54 | You know, there was some kids | 你知道,有一些孩子 |
| 55 | on my road, but we weren't really friends, so we didn't really hang out much sometimes, but the | 在我的路上,但我们不是真正的朋友, 所以我们没有真正挂出 很多时候,但 |
| 56 | friends that I had at school, I was just too far from. | 我在学校的朋友,我太远了。 |
| 57 | I couldn't go to their house, even though | 虽然我不能去他们家 |
| 58 | we were all technically in the same town. | 我们在技术上都在同一座城市。 |
| 59 | In a small town in Latin America, there's usually a | 在拉丁美洲的小镇上,通常有一个 |
| 60 | school and you see, you go by the school and you see all the kids and they're all like walking home | 学校,你看,你去学校 看到所有的孩子, 他们都像走回家 |
| 61 | together. | 一起来 |
| 62 | We'd always be in the Amazon and like this big group of little, little kids would always | 我们总是在亚马逊 像这群小小孩一样 |
| 63 | walk by me on their way, you know, walking home and they would always say like, good afternoon. | 在路上走过我,你知道,走回家 他们总是说,像,下午好。 |
| 64 | It's just so cute to see them all with their little backpacks and they and they all live | 看到他们都带着小背包 他们都活着 真是太可爱了 |
| 65 | close to each other and then they go to school together. | 然后他们一起上学 |
| 66 | They walk to school together. | 他们一起上学 |
| 67 | They walk | 他们走路 |
| 68 | home together and they're always together and they're not that far from each other. | 在一起,他们总是在一起, 他们没有那么远彼此。 |
| 69 | You know, | 你知道吗, |
| 70 | in my town, we had a lot of different buses just for different parts of the town, so | 在我的镇上,我们有很多不同的公共汽车 仅仅在镇上的不同地方,所以 |
| 71 | none of my friends were on my school bus because they lived in a different part of town. | 我的朋友都没有坐我的校车 因为他们住在镇上另一个地方 |
| 72 | So I only | 所以只有我一个人 |
| 73 | saw my friends at school, but of course our time at school was limited. | 在学校见过我的朋友, 但当然我们在学校的时间有限。 |
| 74 | So we really had to plan | 所以我们真的不得不计划 |
| 75 | to hang out outside of school and we had to ask our parents to drive us to see each other because | 我们不得不要求我们的父母 开车让我们见面,因为 |
| 76 | we couldn't just like go to each other's houses or walk home from school. | 我们不能只是喜欢去对方的家 或者从学校走回家。 |
| 77 | So it really felt | 所以感觉真的 |
| 78 | extremely limited socially. | 社会上极其有限。 |
| 79 | I felt often like I was just trapped in my house, my little house in | 我经常觉得自己被困在我家 我的小房子里 |
| 80 | the woods and I couldn't go anywhere and I couldn't do anything. | 树林和我不能去任何地方 我无能为力。 |
| 81 | Continuing with that similar idea, | 继续这个想法, |
| 82 | I want to talk about public transportation. | 我想谈谈公共交通问题。 |
| 83 | This is another huge problem in the United States. | 这是美国另一个巨大的问题. |
| 84 | Basically, there's no public transportation in the United States outside of very urban areas. | 基本上,在非常城市地区以外,美国没有公共交通. |
| 85 | So in | 这么说吧 |
| 86 | very urban city areas, you do have maybe a metro if you live in a really big city or you have city | 如果你住在一个真正的大城市 或者有城市,你确实有地铁 |
| 87 | buses, but a lot of people in the United States just simply don't live in those urban areas. | 巴士,但美国很多人 只是没有住在那些城市地区。 |
| 88 | Like the original American dream, which I don't know if it's really still alive, but that was to | 就像最初的美国梦, 我不知道它是否真的还活着, 但那就是 |
| 89 | live in the suburbs with your family, not to live in these super urban areas. | 住在郊区与你的家人, 不是生活在这些超级城市地区。 |
| 90 | So a lot of people that | 所以很多人都这样 |
| 91 | have families and have kids, they live in the suburbs or they live in the countryside. | 有家庭和孩子,他们住在郊区或农村。 |
| 92 | Basically, | 基本上说 |
| 93 | you need to have a car. | 你需要有车。 |
| 94 | I feel like we all know this by now. | 我觉得我们现在都知道了 |
| 95 | I feel like I'm not saying anything | 我好像什么都没说 |
| 96 | new, but United States, you have to have a car. | 新的,但美国, 你必须有车。 |
| 97 | It's all based around having a car. | 这都是围绕有车。 |
| 98 | The whole | 整个 |
| 99 | country was like built around everybody having a car, the whole system with the roads and the | 国家就像所有拥有汽车的人一样 整个系统都有道路 |
| 100 | parking lots. | 停车场。 |
| 101 | And personally, I love not having a car. | 我个人喜欢没有车 |
| 102 | Like I lived in the countryside for years | 就像我住在乡下多年 |
| 103 | in Latin America and relied almost exclusively on buses with the occasional taxi ride. | 在拉丁美洲,几乎完全依赖巴士,偶尔乘坐出租车。 |
| 104 | They have | 他们有 |
| 105 | like colectivos sometimes in some places, like in Mexico, super cheap, like shared taxi. | 在一些地方,像墨西哥,超级便宜,像共享出租车。 |
| 106 | It's just | 这只是 |
| 107 | so easy. | 这么容易。 |
| 108 | It's just so convenient to use public transportation anywhere you are. | 随便你在哪里使用公共交通就太方便了 |
| 109 | Even in the | 即使是在 |
| 110 | countryside, you don't need to have a car. | 乡下,你不需要有车。 |
| 111 | Obviously it's going to make life easier in | 很明显,这会让生活变得更容易 |
| 112 | ways if you have a car, but you don't need it. | 如果你有车,你不需要车 |
| 113 | I generally just feel like transportation | 我一般只是觉得自己喜欢搭便车 |
| 114 | period is easier in Latin America. | 拉丁美洲的时期比较容易。 |
| 115 | Also, especially because of the more tropical climates, | 而且,特别是因为气候比较热带, |
| 116 | you can have like a motorcycle. | 你可以有像摩托车一样。 |
| 117 | There are moto taxis like in Columbia, for example, | 例如,哥伦比亚有摩托出租车 |
| 118 | there's a lot of options that just don't exist in the U S to live in the United States. | 有很多选择 在美国并不存在 在美国生活。 |
| 119 | You're just | 你刚刚 |
| 120 | going to end up having a car, but there's a really high risk of getting in an accident. | 但发生意外的风险很高 |
| 121 | Like every | 就像每个 |
| 122 | day I would see car accidents on the highways, on the, on the side of the road is extremely | 那天我看到公路上的车祸 路边的车祸非常严重 |
| 123 | common. | 常见。 |
| 124 | The car accidents happen all the time in the U S because there's just so many cars in the | 车祸在美国时常发生 因为里面有很多车 |
| 125 | road and some parts of the country, they have like four or five, six lane highways. | 公路和一些地方有四、五、六车道高速公路。 |
| 126 | It looks like such | 看起来是这样 |
| 127 | a big waste of metal and material. | 大量浪费金属和材料。 |
| 128 | And we're all going to like relatively the same part of town, | 我们都会喜欢 相对相同的城市部分, |
| 129 | the same area. | 同一个区域。 |
| 130 | And we just have all these cars, like five lanes of cars, and we're all just one | 我们只有这些车,就像五车道, 我们都只是一 |
| 131 | person in each car. | 在每辆车上的人。 |
| 132 | It just doesn't seem efficient. | 似乎没有效率 |
| 133 | It seems silly. | 这似乎很傻。 |
| 134 | And you'd think that for United | 你会认为,联合 |
| 135 | States claiming to be a developed country, that it would have a much more developed transportation | 自称是发达国家的国家,将拥有更为发达的运输 |
| 136 | system. | 系统。 |
| 137 | I don't know, maybe like some high speed trains, some like really nice trains that go | 我不知道,也许像一些高速列车, 有些像真正的好火车去 |
| 138 | everywhere, like some countries in Asia have in Europe. | 到处都是,像亚洲的一些国家 在欧洲。 |
| 139 | In that aspect, I think the U S is | 在这方面,我认为美国是 |
| 140 | extremely underdeveloped, even though Latin America might not have the most developed | 尽管拉丁美洲可能没有最发达的 |
| 141 | transportation system in the world. | 世界交通系统。 |
| 142 | I still prefer the way it is now than in the United States. | 我还是更喜欢现在的样子 而不是在美国。 |
| 143 | The | 那个 |
| 144 | next thing that I prefer in Latin America is one of my favorite things. | 接下来我更喜欢在拉丁美洲的东西 是我最喜欢的东西之一。 |
| 145 | This changes depending on | 这种变化取决于 |
| 146 | the country and the region, but generally fruit and vegetables and produce and farmers markets are | 水果、蔬菜、农产品和农民市场 |
| 147 | much more abundant and accessible and affordable than in the United States. | 比美国更丰富、更方便、更负担得起。 |
| 148 | United States farmers | 美国农民 |
| 149 | markets is more of like a luxury thing. | 市场更像是奢侈品 |
| 150 | It's often more expensive. | 往往更贵. |
| 151 | It's often only available | 经常只能买到 |
| 152 | in very specific places on very specific days. | 在非常具体的日子里 |
| 153 | It's something that you have to like research and | 这是你喜欢研究的东西 |
| 154 | figure out like, okay, where are the farmers markets? | 想想看,好的,农民市场在哪里? |
| 155 | Because it's not something that everybody | 因为不是每个人都喜欢这样 |
| 156 | participates in. | 参加。 |
| 157 | It's not just a normal aspect of life like it is in Latin America. | 这不仅仅是生活的一个正常方面 像它在拉丁美洲。 |
| 158 | In Latin America, | 在拉丁美洲, |
| 159 | these markets are often open all the time, every day. | 这些市场经常每天开放。 |
| 160 | People are selling fresh produce from their | 人们在销售新鲜产品 |
| 161 | farm. | 农场。 |
| 162 | It's often cheaper than going to the store. | 经常比去商店便宜. |
| 163 | Additionally, you can find small stores that | 此外,你可以找到一些小商店 |
| 164 | specifically just sell produce like fruterias and these little tiendas that have fruits and | 具体来说,只是销售产物 像果冻 和这些小龙卷风 有水果和 |
| 165 | vegetables. | 菜类 |
| 166 | In Ecuador, you can find those on every single corner. | 在厄瓜多尔,你可以在每个角落找到这些。 |
| 167 | I think it was more accessible | 我觉得更方便 |
| 168 | there than anywhere else. | 那里比其他任何地方都远。 |
| 169 | But even like in Argentina, I was expecting there to not be so | 但是,即使在阿根廷, 我期望不会是这样 |
| 170 | many fruterias everywhere, like little fruit stores. | 像小水果店一样 |
| 171 | And actually I was surprised. | 其实我很惊讶 |
| 172 | There were, | 曾经, |
| 173 | there were a lot. | 有很多东西 |
| 174 | The United States, we basically don't have little fruit stores. | 美国,我们基本上没有小水果店。 |
| 175 | We don't have | 我们没有 |
| 176 | fruit and vegetable stores. | 水果蔬菜商店。 |
| 177 | We don't have a lot of small stores in general, right? | 我们一般没有多少小商店,对吧? |
| 178 | We just have these | 我们只有这些 |
| 179 | giant grocery stores, supermarket. | 大型杂货店,超市。 |
| 180 | So anytime you need fruits or vegetables, little basic food items, | 所以每当你需要水果或蔬菜, 基本食物, |
| 181 | you always have to go to the supermarket because what are you going to go to the gas station? | 你总得去超市 因为你要去加油站干什么? |
| 182 | You're | 琌 |
| 183 | going to get some ice cream. | 去拿点冰激凌 |
| 184 | You're going to get some junk food. | 你会得到一些垃圾食品。 |
| 185 | We don't have healthy food at | 我们没有健康的食物 |
| 186 | little convenience stores and gas stations. | 小便利店和加油站。 |
| 187 | So you have to go to the grocery store. | 所以你必须去杂货店 |
| 188 | That's like | 这就像 |
| 189 | the only place you can get real food. | 唯一的地方,你可以得到真正的食物。 |
| 190 | And even a lot of the produce, a lot of the food at the | 甚至很多产品, 很多食物在 |
| 191 | grocery store is a little suspicious and sometimes doesn't taste very good and just not as good | 杂货店有点可疑,有时味道不好,只是没有那么好 |
| 192 | quality as in Latin America as well. | 质量和拉丁美洲一样。 |
| 193 | One of my favorite things about being in Mexico is going | 我最喜欢的一件事 在墨西哥是去 |
| 194 | to the Tianguis, the big street market where you can get all your groceries, all your produce every | 到天贵家,大街市 你可以在那里得到所有的东西, 所有你的产品 |
| 195 | day in Ecuador. | 在厄瓜多尔。 |
| 196 | I could go to town and I could see people selling stuff from their farm every | 我可以去镇上 看到人们从农场里卖东西 |
| 197 | single day. | 单日. |
| 198 | You could buy stuff right from the jungle, like I was in the Amazon, ayahuasca in a | 你可以从丛林里买东西 就像我在亚马逊一样 |
| 199 | bottle to rare jungle fruits and medicine to all kinds of things. | 瓶子到稀有丛林水果 和药物到各种各样的东西。 |
| 200 | They're basic, you know, | 他们是基本的,你知道的, |
| 201 | bananas, papayas. | 香蕉,木瓜,s. |
| 202 | They're selling chicha, like the drink, you know, fermented drink. | 他们卖Chicha, 像饮料,你知道的,发酵饮料。 |
| 203 | I love market | 我喜欢市场 |
| 204 | culture and I really hope it doesn't go away and I'm scared for future generations. | 我非常希望它不会消失 我害怕后代。 |
| 205 | I'm afraid that | 我担心 |
| 206 | we're going to be losing this in Latin America. | 我们将在拉丁美洲失去它。 |
| 207 | It's going to become more like the United States. | 它会变得更像美国。 |
| 208 | I mean, I hope that doesn't happen, but if it does happen, I hope at least we still maintain | 我的意思是,我希望这不会发生, 但如果它真的发生, 我希望至少我们仍然保持 |
| 209 | the fruiterias. | 果园。 |
| 210 | I hope we still have all these little stores everywhere and it's not going to | 我希望我们还有这些小店铺 |
| 211 | be just like everything at the grocery store and that's it. | 就像杂货店里的一切 就这样 |
| 212 | Everything at the big supermarket and | 在大超市的一切,还有, |
| 213 | that's it. | 就这样 |
| 214 | That would be really sad. | 那会很伤心的 |
| 215 | But until that happens, if it does happen, Latin America is | 但在此之前,如果真的发生,拉丁美洲就是 |
| 216 | better than the United States in that aspect. | 在这方面,比美国好。 |
| 217 | Also, the fact that it's a lot of it is tropical | 而且,它有很多是热带的 |
| 218 | and you can get tropical fruits much more easily than you can get in the United States. | 并且你可以得到热带水果 比在美国容易得多。 |
| 219 | You can get | 你可以来 |
| 220 | fruits that you can't even find in the US and much better quality and much cheaper. | 在美国连水果都找不到 质量好很多 价格便宜很多 |
| 221 | It's sad. | 悲'. |
| 222 | A lot | 许多 |
| 223 | of my family has only had the really horrible mangoes that they sell in the grocery store in | 我家只有可怕的芒果 他们卖在杂货店 |
| 224 | Maine, where I'm from. | 缅因州,我出身的地方. |
| 225 | To me, those mangoes are just absolute trash. | 对我来说,那些芒果只是绝对的垃圾。 |
| 226 | Even if they're shipped in | 即使他们被运进来 |
| 227 | from like Mexico or wherever, they're still just like horrible mangoes. | 从墨西哥或任何地方, 他们仍然就像可怕的芒果。 |
| 228 | I have really high standards | 我有很高的标准 |
| 229 | for fruits, just like you have to go to the country and you have to find the good fruit. | 就像你必须去乡下 找到好水果一样 |
| 230 | I spent my whole childhood without ever having a fresh mango, a papaya. | 我整个童年都没吃过芒果,木瓜 |
| 231 | I never knew what these | 我不知道这些是什么 |
| 232 | were, you know, because I never tried more than one kind of banana. | 因为我从未试过不止一种香蕉 |
| 233 | I don't want to live like that | 我不想那样生活 |
| 234 | ever again. | 从此以后 |
| 235 | So I want to live in a place with abundant tropical fruit that's very accessible | 所以我想住在一个有丰富的热带水果的地方,这些水果非常容易获取 |
| 236 | and affordable and good quality. | 价格低廉,质量好 |
| 237 | The next reason why I love most of Latin America is the climate. | 接下来,我爱拉丁美洲大部分地区的原因是气候。 |
| 238 | I really like warm tropical climates, but the cool thing about Latin America is that there's | 我真的很喜欢温暖的热带气候 但拉丁美洲最酷的是 |
| 239 | a lot of elevation. | 很多高处。 |
| 240 | There's a lot of mountains. | 山多'. |
| 241 | So if you get tired of the heat or you want | 所以,如果你厌倦了热或你想 |
| 242 | something a little bit in between, like not too cold, not too hot, a lot of the more popular | 有点在中间, 像不太冷, 不太热, 很多更受欢迎 |
| 243 | cities in Latin America are actually at an elevation that create this kind of eternal spring | 拉丁美洲的城市实际上处在高地上 创造了这种永恒的春天 |
| 244 | type climate or even like living in the Andes or, you know, places that are a bit cold, | 气候类型 或甚至像 生活在安第斯山脉 或,你知道,地方 有点冷, |
| 245 | especially in the nighttime. | 特别是晚上 |
| 246 | It's still not as cold as where I'm from in Maine. | 还没我来自缅因州的地方那么冷 |
| 247 | You know, | 你知道吗, |
| 248 | it doesn't get snow. | 它不会下雪。 |
| 249 | It's not freezing cold. | 冷不冻. |
| 250 | So it's really nice. | 所以这是真的很好。 |
| 251 | I feel like no matter what | 无论怎样,我都觉得 |
| 252 | your preferences are, you can find a climate that you really love in Latin America. | 你的喜好是,你可以找到一个 你真正喜欢的气候 在拉丁美洲。 |
| 253 | The United | 联合国 |
| 254 | States, you have different kinds of climates, of course, but the South is just extremely hot | 当然,各国气候不同,但南方非常炎热 |
| 255 | in the summer and the North is extremely cold in the winter. | 在夏季,北方在冬季极度寒冷。 |
| 256 | So you have these extremes. | 所以你有这些极端。 |
| 257 | When I was in Ecuador and Colombia and Mexico, I never experienced so much heat as they experience | 当我在厄瓜多尔,哥伦比亚和墨西哥时, 我从来没有经历过这么多的热 因为他们经历 |
| 258 | in the South of the United States in the summer. | 夏天在美国南部 |
| 259 | So people tend to think that, oh, just because | 所以人们往往认为,哦,只是因为 |
| 260 | you're near the equator, it's going to be super hot. | 你接近赤道了,会非常炎热 |
| 261 | It's just not true because there's just so | 这不是真的 因为有如此 |
| 262 | much elevation in these countries. | 这些国家的海拔很大。 |
| 263 | I've actually been really cold a lot, like traveling in the | 其实我一直很冷, 像旅行在 |
| 264 | Andes and being in Mexico City sometimes and even Oaxaca City in the nighttime in the winter. | 安第斯山脉和有时在墨西哥城,甚至晚上在冬天的瓦哈卡市. |
| 265 | Yeah, it gets cold. | 是啊,它变得冷。 |
| 266 | Quito in Ecuador is really freaking cold. | 在厄瓜多尔的基多真的太冷了。 |
| 267 | Quito is a really cold city. | 基多是个冷酷的城市 |
| 268 | The next thing that's better in Latin America than the U.S. is the health care. | 接下来在拉丁美洲比美国更好的是医疗保健. |
| 269 | This is a huge | 这是巨大的 |
| 270 | topic. | 主题。 |
| 271 | The health care in the U.S. is just so disproportional to the salary. | 美国的医疗服务 与工资不成比例 |
| 272 | The cost of it | 费用 |
| 273 | is just absolutely insane. | 简直是疯了 |
| 274 | It's a joke. | 这是一个笑话。 |
| 275 | It's a laughing stock of the world. | 世间笑股. |
| 276 | And the quality | 还有质量 |
| 277 | is just average. | 只是一个普通的。 |
| 278 | It's actually not better. | 这其实不是更好。 |
| 279 | The quality is not proportional to the cost. | 质量与成本不相称. |
| 280 | I got cavities fixed in my teeth in Ecuador for like $20 a tooth. | 在厄瓜多尔我牙齿上修了个洞 每颗20美元 |
| 281 | $20 is like one day of minimum | 二十块就像最少一天 |
| 282 | wage salary in Ecuador. | 厄瓜多尔的工资。 |
| 283 | To fix a tooth in the U.S. is not the cost of one day of minimum wage salary | 在美国修牙不是一天最低工资的代价 |
| 284 | in the U.S. We wish. | 在美国,我们希望。 |
| 285 | No, it's more than that. | 不 不止这样 |
| 286 | You need to have health insurance or you're screwed. | 你需要医疗保险 否则你就完了 |
| 287 | When I was in Buenos Aires, I got a doctor checkup. | 当我在布宜诺斯艾利斯的时候,我得到了一个医生检查。 |
| 288 | I think it was like $10. | 我想是10块 |
| 289 | Seriously, | 说真的, |
| 290 | like $10. | 像10块。 |
| 291 | Even when I was in Mexico City, I was in one of the more expensive neighborhoods, | 即使我在墨西哥城, 我在一个比较昂贵的街区, |
| 292 | Roma, and I went to a dentist in that neighborhood and I got a wisdom tooth pulled for like $100. | 罗马,我去了一个牙医 在那个街区,我得到了一个智慧的牙齿拉大约100美元。 |
| 293 | And I'm sure you can get it way cheaper in a different part of the city or in a different | 我敢肯定,你可以得到它 便宜的方式在城市的另一部分或不同的 |
| 294 | part of Mexico. | 墨西哥的一部分。 |
| 295 | But that was like the expensive dentist cost was like $100 to get a tooth pulled. | 但是,那就像昂贵的牙医 费用是100美元 得到一个牙拔。 |
| 296 | Also, the service in my experience is better. | 而且,我的经验是更好的服务。 |
| 297 | I had a more one-on-one genuine interaction with | 我有一个更一对一 真正的互动 |
| 298 | the dentist, the doctor. | 牙医,医生 |
| 299 | I felt they weren't rushing me. | 我觉得他们没催我 |
| 300 | I felt like I could ask them anything | 我觉得我可以问他们什么 |
| 301 | or talk to them about anything. | 或者和他们谈任何事 |
| 302 | Another thing that's horrible about U.S. health care is that | 美国医疗的另一件可怕的事情是 |
| 303 | when you try to book an appointment, they're often booked for months. | 当你试图预约时, 他们经常被预订几个月。 |
| 304 | So you have to schedule | 所以,你必须安排 |
| 305 | an appointment for like three months from now. | 约三个月后 |
| 306 | They don't have much availability. | 他们没有太多可用的。 |
| 307 | But anytime | 但随时 |
| 308 | in Latin America that I needed to schedule an appointment, I literally just look them up on | 在拉丁美洲,我需要安排一个约会, 我从字面上看他们 |
| 309 | Google Maps. | 谷歌地图. |
| 310 | I get their number. | 我得到了他们的号码。 |
| 311 | I usually just text them on WhatsApp and say like, | 我通常只会在WhatsApp上发短信说 |
| 312 | they usually tell me either that day or the next day or within like one to two days they're | 他们通常告诉我 无论是那一天,还是第二天 或在一到两天之内 |
| 313 | available. | 可用。 |
| 314 | And we schedule the appointment and I go and they see me immediately. | 我们安排了约会,我马上去他们那里 |
| 315 | And then even | 然后连 |
| 316 | after the appointment, oftentimes they will message you or you can just text them to schedule like a | 预约后,他们常常会给你留言,或者你可以发短信给他们 安排像一个 |
| 317 | follow-up appointment if you need. | 如有需要,可进行后续预约。 |
| 318 | I'm not an expert on this topic, but I have gotten the general | 我不是这个话题的专家 但我得到了将军 |
| 319 | impression that in a lot of countries in Latin America, there is free public health care and | 认为在拉丁美洲的许多国家,免费的公共卫生保健以及 |
| 320 | there's also private health care that you can pay for. | 也有私人医疗费用。 |
| 321 | So you have like two different options. | 所以你有两种不同的选择。 |
| 322 | I'm not even asking for free health care in the U.S. | 我甚至不 要求免费保健 在美国。 |
| 323 | I'm just asking for affordable health care. | 我只是要求 负担得起的医疗保健。 |
| 324 | And it's just, it's not. | 且道,则不然. |
| 325 | And I would be very afraid to live there, especially as I get older. | 我将非常害怕住在那里, 特别是当我长大了。 |
| 326 | And I have heard of a lot of older people leaving the U.S. because of the health care, | 我听说过很多老人因为医疗原因离开美国 |
| 327 | because it's just way too expensive and they find just as good care a lot more affordable | 因为这太贵了 而且他们也觉得 照顾得很好 更能负担得起 |
| 328 | in other countries. | 在其他国家。 |
| 329 | That's actually one of the top reasons of why a lot of older like retired | 这其实是很多老人像退休一样的原因之一 |
| 330 | people from the U.S. will leave the country. | 来自美国的人会离开这个国家 |
| 331 | The final thing that I love about Latin America | 我最爱拉丁美洲的最后一件事 |
| 332 | that I prefer, it's really personal to me. | 我更喜欢,这对我而言是私人恩怨 |
| 333 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 334 | This might not matter to you, but to me, | 这也许对你无关紧要 但对我来说 |
| 335 | I just love Spanish and I also love Portuguese. | 我热爱西班牙语 我也热爱葡萄牙语 |
| 336 | I speak Spanish and I also speak Portuguese, | 我讲西班牙语,我也讲葡萄牙语, |
| 337 | not as fluent, but I'm, I'm working on it. | 没有那么流利,但我,我在努力。 |
| 338 | I just love these languages so much and I love, | 我只是很喜欢这些语言,我爱, |
| 339 | especially how they're spoken in Latin America as opposed to in Europe. | 尤其是在拉丁美洲 而不是欧洲 |
| 340 | I really love living | 我真的很喜欢活着 |
| 341 | in countries where I can practice and use my language skills all the time and I can always | 在那些我随时可以练习和运用语言能力的国家 我永远可以 |
| 342 | improve and, and people are just very happy to talk to me and, and help me with that. | 改进和,人们只是 很高兴和我说话, 和帮助我做到这一点。 |
| 343 | And also | 还有 |
| 344 | a lot of them either know some English or some other language, or they think that it's important | 很多人要么懂英语 要么懂其他语言 要么他们认为这很重要 |
| 345 | or it's good to learn another language. | 或者学习另一种语言是好的。 |
| 346 | And maybe partially because of, you know, it's been taught | 可能部分是因为,你知道,它已经学会了 |
| 347 | to them that they should learn English, but it's just refreshing after living in the United States | 对他们来说,他们应该学习英语, 但是它只是新鲜 后在美国生活 |
| 348 | and being among a lot of people who only speak English and have absolutely no motivation to learn | 成为许多只说英语的人 绝对没有学习的动力 |
| 349 | another language. | 另一种语言。 |
| 350 | It's hard for me to connect to these kinds of people. | 我很难跟这种人联系 |
| 351 | I think a lot of people | 我觉得很多人 |
| 352 | in the U.S., not everybody, but I think there are a lot of people, especially older generations, | 在美国,不是每个人, 但我认为有很多人, 特别是老一代, |
| 353 | they're living in this kind of United States bubble where that is like their whole reality, | 他们生活在这种美国泡沫中 在那里就像他们的全部现实 |
| 354 | their whole world, and they don't really think about anything outside of that. | 他们的世界, 他们不真正思考 任何之外。 |
| 355 | I think it really | 我觉得真的 |
| 356 | blocks their development as a person and as somebody who travels to many different countries | 阻碍他们作为一个人和旅行到许多国家的人的发展 |
| 357 | and tries to learn other languages, it's, it's kind of hard for me to, to connect to those kind of | 尝试学习其他语言, 这是,它有点困难 我,连接到这些类型的 |
| 358 | people. | 人们 |
| 359 | I connect more with like people of the world, you know, not just people from the United | 我和全世界的人联系得更紧密 不仅仅是来自美国的人 |
| 360 | States. | 国家。 |
| 361 | I connect with travelers and people who have, you know, a broader reference of what life | 我和旅行者和人们有联系 他们有,你知道,一个更广泛的参考 生活 |
| 362 | looks like. | 看起来像。 |
| 363 | I think it's really important for us to have that. | 我认为拥有这个对我们很重要 |
| 364 | But yes, also just for selfish reasons, | 但是,是的,同样出于自私的原因, |
| 365 | I love living in countries that speak Spanish because I can speak Spanish and I love speaking | 我喜欢住在说西班牙语的国家 因为我会说西班牙语 我喜欢说 |
| 366 | Spanish. | 西班牙语。 |
| 367 | So I'm sure that there are other reasons why I prefer Latin America over the U.S. | 所以我相信还有其他原因 我更喜欢拉丁美洲而不是美国 |
| 368 | There's | 还有 |
| 369 | also things I prefer in the U.S. compared to Latin America. | 和拉丁美洲相比 我更喜欢美国的东西 |
| 370 | So it's not like everything is perfect in | 所以,它不是像 一切是完美的在 |
| 371 | Latin America and everything's bad in the U.S. Of course not. | 拉丁美洲和在美国一切都很糟糕 当然不是 |
| 372 | There are pros and cons to living | 活着有利弊 |
| 373 | in both places. | 在两个地方。 |
| 374 | If you live in the U.S. and you love living there, fantastic. | 如果你住在美国 你喜欢住在那里,太棒了。 |
| 375 | You got to listen | 你得听着 |
| 376 | to what feels right for you. | 让你觉得很合适 |
| 377 | I'm just sharing in this video why I don't think I will live in the | 我只是分享这段视频,为什么我不认为我会生活在 |
| 378 | U.S. ever again. | 复次美国. |
| 379 | As much as my family doesn't want to hear that and would love for me to live there, | 虽然我的家人不想听到这些 也希望我住在那里 |
| 380 | it just doesn't feel right for me and my journey in my life. | 这对我和我的旅程都不好 |
| 381 | If you're learning English, if you're | 如果你学习英语,如果你是 |
| 382 | working on your English comprehension, you can tell me in the comments how much you understood. | 你可以在评论中告诉我 你理解多少 |
| 383 | I'm sure you guys will also tell me about your opinions and what you think. | 我相信你们也会告诉我 你们的意见和想法 |
| 384 | I understand that | 我理解你的话 |
| 385 | I'm coming to this topic with some privilege. | 我以某种特权来讨论这个话题 |
| 386 | I have the privilege of being able to choose | 我有幸能够选择 |
| 387 | which one. | 哪个? |
| 388 | Some people don't even have the option of really being able to choose the United States, | 有些人甚至没有选择 真正能够选择美国, |
| 389 | but I don't think I have the privilege of money, you know, being able to live in Latin America with | 但我不认为我有钱的特权, 你知道, 能够生活在拉丁美洲与 |
| 390 | so much more money, which makes it better. | 这么多钱, 这使得它更好。 |
| 391 | Because actually the entire time I lived in Ecuador, | 因为实际上我住在厄瓜多尔的整个时间, |
| 392 | I was making basically like an Ecuadorian's minimum wage salary. | 我赚的基本上就像厄瓜多尔人的最低工资。 |
| 393 | I was not making very | 我没有做很多 |
| 394 | If I have to make minimum wage and have a low salary, I would rather do that in Latin America | 如果我必须做最低工资 和低工资, 我宁愿这样做 在拉丁美洲 |
| 395 | than in the U.S. because it will still be easier for me in Latin America to find a cheap room to | 比在美国要好,因为在拉丁美洲我找一个便宜的房间 |
| 396 | rent, to use public transportation, to walk, to get health care. | 出租,使用公共交通,步行,就医. |
| 397 | If you live on minimum wage in | 若您以最低工资生活于 |
| 398 | the U.S., you're probably going to struggle a lot more. | 美国,你可能要挣扎得多。 |
| 399 | You can't even go get like a cheap almuerzo | 你甚至不能去得到像一个廉价的almuerzo |
| 400 | at like a little local restaurant. | 像个当地的餐馆 |
| 401 | We don't have that in the U.S., you know, where they make one | 我们在美国没有,你知道,他们在哪里制造的 |
| 402 | meal for everybody. | 给大家吃 |
| 403 | Therefore, it's cheaper and you can go have that for lunch and then you can go | 因此,它更便宜,你可以去 吃午餐,然后你可以去 |
| 404 | get cheap quality food at the farmer's market. | 在农民市场买到廉价优质食品。 |
| 405 | Also, if you need to make money, you can always | 而且,如果你需要赚钱,你可以永远 |
| 406 | sell things on the street in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲街头卖东西 |
| 407 | You can't in the U.S. You're not allowed to just go | 不能在美国. 你不能就这么走了 |
| 408 | out and sell things on the street. | 在街上卖东西 |
| 409 | So because of this, I always say if you're going to be poor, | 因此,我总是说,如果你要贫穷, |
| 410 | it's better to be poor in Latin America than in the United States. | 拉丁美洲的穷人比美国要好 |
| 411 | The United States has a huge | 美国有一个巨大的 |
| 412 | homelessness problem now. | 现在的无家可归问题。 |
| 413 | All right, so that's basically everything I wanted to say in this | 好吧,基本上这就是我想说的 |
| 414 | video. | 视频。 |
| 415 | I probably forgot some things, but thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video. | 我可能忘了一些事情, 但是谢谢你的观看 我会看到你在下一个视频。 |
| 416 | Don't forget to like and subscribe. | 别忘了喜欢和订阅 |
| 417 | It helps me a lot. | 这对我很有帮助 |
| 418 | And yeah, turn on the notifications so you | 是啊,打开通知,所以你 |
| 419 | know when I post another video. | 知道当我发布另一个视频。 |
| 420 | All right, see you. | 好吧,再见。 |
| 421 | Bye bye. | 再见 |
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | I can't imagine myself living in the United States ever again, but I can imagine myself | 我无法想象自己再次生活在美国 但我可以想象自己 |
| 0:05 | spending the rest of my life in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲度过余生 |
| 0:07 | Here's why. | 这是为什么。 |
| 0:08 | First, let me introduce myself. | 首先,让我自我介绍一下。 |
| 0:09 | My name is Lau or Prof. Lau. | 我叫刘或教授 刘.. |
| 0:12 | I grew up in the United States. | 我在美国长大 |
| 0:13 | I lived there until I was 20, | 我住在那里直到我20岁, |
| 0:15 | and then I left and lived in Latin America for seven years approximately. | 然后我离开了,在拉丁美洲生活了七年左右。 |
| 0:19 | I lived in different | 我住的地方不一样 |
| 0:20 | countries, primarily in Ecuador, but I also spent time in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. | 国家,主要在厄瓜多尔,但我还在墨西哥、阿根廷和哥伦比亚度过了时间。 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
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| 1 | I can't imagine myself living in the United States ever again, but I can imagine myself | 我无法想象自己再次生活在美国 但我可以想象自己 |
| 2 | spending the rest of my life in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲度过余生 |
| 3 | Here's why. | 这是为什么。 |
| 4 | First, let me introduce myself. | 首先,让我自我介绍一下。 |
| 5 | My name is Lau or Prof. Lau. | 我叫刘或教授 刘.. |
| 6 | I grew up in the United States. | 我在美国长大 |
| 7 | I lived there until I was 20, | 我住在那里直到我20岁, |
| 8 | and then I left and lived in Latin America for seven years approximately. | 然后我离开了,在拉丁美洲生活了七年左右。 |
| 9 | I lived in different | 我住的地方不一样 |
| 10 | countries, primarily in Ecuador, but I also spent time in Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia. | 国家,主要在厄瓜多尔,但我还在墨西哥、阿根廷和哥伦比亚度过了时间。 |
| 11 | I've | 我见过 |
| 12 | realized in this video about Latin America because it consists of many countries. | 因为它包含许多国家。 |
| 13 | Not | 没有 |
| 14 | every country in Latin America has what I'm going to be talking about in this video or it might not | 拉丁美洲的每个国家都有我在录像里要讲的 也可能没有 |
| 15 | apply, but it's just based on my general experience. | 应用,但它只是根据 我的一般经验。 |
| 16 | So the first thing that I prefer in Latin America | 所以我在拉丁美洲最喜欢的 |
| 17 | is walkability. | 是可步行性。 |
| 18 | This is a great word, isn't it? | 这是一个伟大的词,不是吗? |
| 19 | Walkability, the ability to walk around, | 可走性,可以四处走动, |
| 20 | to walk to the store, to walk anywhere you need to go. | 步行到商店, 走任何你需要去的地方。 |
| 21 | You're going to see more people | 你会看到更多的人 |
| 22 | walking around, walking out and about. | 四处走动,走出去和左右。 |
| 23 | And this goes for big cities as well as small towns. | 这对于大城市和小城镇来说都是如此。 |
| 24 | The thing is, is that the way it is in my experience in Latin America is the people | 问题是,在拉丁美洲,我的经验是 人民 |
| 25 | live in towns and cities where everything is closer together. | 生活在所有事物更紧密的城镇中。 |
| 26 | So it's easier to walk around. | 故曰易行. |
| 27 | Yeah, of course you can live way out in the countryside where it's not so easy | 是啊,你当然可以 住在乡下,那里不是那么容易 |
| 28 | maybe to walk to a store. | 也许去商店 |
| 29 | Of course you can live super rural like that, but there often are little | 当然你可以像那样过着超级乡村生活, 但经常很少 |
| 30 | stores here and there or little places where local farmers will sell their fruits and vegetables | 这里和那里有商店 或小地方 当地农民将出售他们的水果和蔬菜 |
| 31 | and stuff. | 和东西。 |
| 32 | So it's doable. | 故曰可办. |
| 33 | I spent most of my time in Ecuador, which was a five and a half years | 我在厄瓜多尔待了五年半 |
| 34 | living in rural places, living in small towns. | 住在农村,住在小城镇。 |
| 35 | I actually lived in the Amazon for four years. | 其实我在亚马逊住了四年 |
| 36 | I was always like a 20 minute bus ride from the nearest town or city that had everything. | 我总是像20分钟的公交车 从最近的城镇或城市 拥有一切。 |
| 37 | It had | 它曾经 |
| 38 | hospitals and everything you need. | 医院和一切你需要的。 |
| 39 | So I wasn't that isolated, but even being on the countryside, | 所以,我不是那么孤立, 但即使是在农村, |
| 40 | there was always like some little store within walking distance, maybe just like a little corner | 总是有像一些小商店 在行走的距离, 也许只是像一个小角落 |
| 41 | store, a little store that has like some basic essential things. | 商店,一个小商店 有一些基本的必需品。 |
| 42 | And I mean, you can find that | 我的意思是,你可以发现 |
| 43 | in the United States too, but I just feel like they don't have as good of a selection and well, | 在美国也是如此 但我觉得他们没有选择的好 |
| 44 | maybe it's cold and you don't really want to walk or it's like snowing because I'm from the north | 可能很冷,你不想走路 也可能是因为我来自北方 |
| 45 | of the U S so it's not as good for walking to the store, but also everything is just farther. | 在美国,所以它不是那么好 步行到商店, 也所有的东西只是更远。 |
| 46 | Everything is more spread out. | 一切众生更散. |
| 47 | Like I grew up in a small town in Maine, but I feel like everything | 就像我在缅因州的一个小镇长大 但我觉得一切 |
| 48 | was so far away. | 远在眼前 |
| 49 | Like all of my friends from school lived so far from me. | 就像我所有学校的朋友都离我很远 |
| 50 | I couldn't just | 我不能就这样 |
| 51 | walk to their house. | 走进他们的房子。 |
| 52 | You know, there was some kids on my road, but we weren't really friends, | 你知道,有一些孩子在我的路上, 但我们不是真正的朋友, |
| 53 | so we didn't really hang out much sometimes, but the friends that I had at school, I was just too | 所以,我们真的没有 挂出很多时候, 但我有朋友在学校,我只是太 |
| 54 | far from. | 远曰. |
| 55 | I couldn't go to their house, even though we were all technically in the same town | 我不能去他们家 虽然我们都是在同一个小镇 |
| 56 | in a small town in Latin America, there's usually a school and you see, you go by the school and you | 在拉丁美洲的一个小镇, 通常有一个学校 你看,你去学校,你 |
| 57 | be in the Amazon and like this big group of little, little kids would always walk by me | 在亚马逊 像这群小小孩一样 总是走过来 |
| 58 | on their way, you know, walking home and they would always say like, when I started this, | 在路上,你知道,步行回家 他们总是说,喜欢,当我开始这个, |
| 59 | like good afternoon, it's just so cute to see them all with their little backpacks and they, | 就像下午好一样,看到他们都带着小背包,他们真可爱 |
| 60 | and they all live close to each other and then they go to school together. | 然后他们一起上学 |
| 61 | They walk to school | 他们走路上学 |
| 62 | together. | 一起来 |
| 63 | They walk home together and they're always together and they're not that far from | 他们一起走回家 他们总是在一起, 他们没有那么远 |
| 64 | each other. | 彼此间. |
| 65 | You know, in my town, we had a lot of different buses just for different parts of the | 你知道,在我的镇上, 我们有很多不同的公共汽车 只是为不同的部分 |
| 66 | town. | 镇上。 |
| 67 | So none of my friends were on my school bus because they lived in a different part of town. | 所以我的朋友没有一个坐我的校车 因为他们住在镇上另一个地方 |
| 68 | So I only saw my friends at school, but of course our time at school was limited. | 所以,我只看到我的朋友在学校, 但当然我们在学校的时间是有限的。 |
| 69 | So we really had | 所以,我们真的有 |
| 70 | to plan to hang out outside of school and we had to ask our parents to drive us to see each other | 打算去学校外面玩 我们不得不叫父母送我们去见见对方 |
| 71 | because we couldn't just like go to each other's houses or walk home from school. | 因为我们不能只是喜欢 去对方的家 或走出学校步行回家。 |
| 72 | So it really felt | 所以感觉真的 |
| 73 | extremely limited socially. | 社会上极其有限。 |
| 74 | I felt often like I was just trapped in my house, my little house in | 我经常觉得自己被困在我家 我的小房子里 |
| 75 | woods and I couldn't go anywhere and I couldn't do anything. | 树林和我不能去任何地方 我无能为力。 |
| 76 | Continuing with that similar idea, | 继续这个想法, |
| 77 | I want to talk about public transportation. | 我想谈谈公共交通问题。 |
| 78 | This is another huge problem in the United States. | 这是美国另一个巨大的问题. |
| 79 | Basically there's no public transportation in the United States outside of very urban areas. | 基本上,美国在市区以外没有公共交通. |
| 80 | So in | 这么说吧 |
| 81 | very urban city areas, you do have maybe a metro if you live in a really big city or you have city | 如果你住在一个真正的大城市 或者有城市,你确实有地铁 |
| 82 | buses, but a lot of people in the United States just simply don't live in those urban areas. | 巴士,但美国很多人 只是没有住在那些城市地区。 |
| 83 | Like the original American dream, which I don't know if it's really still alive, but that was to | 就像最初的美国梦, 我不知道它是否真的还活着, 但那就是 |
| 84 | live in the suburbs with your family, not to live in these super urban areas. | 住在郊区与你的家人, 不是生活在这些超级城市地区。 |
| 85 | So a lot of people that | 所以很多人都这样 |
| 86 | have families and have kids, they live in the suburbs or they live in the countryside. | 有家庭和孩子,他们住在郊区或农村。 |
| 87 | Basically | 基本上是这样 |
| 88 | you need to have a car. | 你需要有车。 |
| 89 | I feel like we all know this by now. | 我觉得我们现在都知道了 |
| 90 | I feel like I'm not saying anything | 我好像什么都没说 |
| 91 | new, but United States, you have to have a car. | 新的,但美国, 你必须有车。 |
| 92 | It's all based around having a car. | 这都是围绕有车。 |
| 93 | The whole | 整个 |
| 94 | country was like built around everybody having a car, the whole system with the roads and the | 国家就像所有拥有汽车的人一样 整个系统都有道路 |
| 95 | parking lots. | 停车场。 |
| 96 | And personally, I love not having a car. | 我个人喜欢没有车 |
| 97 | Like I lived in the countryside for years | 就像我住在乡下多年 |
| 98 | in Latin America and relied almost exclusively on buses with the occasional taxi ride. | 在拉丁美洲,几乎完全依赖巴士,偶尔乘坐出租车。 |
| 99 | They have | 他们有 |
| 100 | like colectivos sometimes in some places, like in Mexico, you know, super cheap, like shared taxi. | 就像一些地方的咖啡馆, 比如墨西哥,你知道的,超便宜的,像共享的出租车。 |
| 101 | It's just so easy. | 很简单的 |
| 102 | It's just so convenient to use public transportation anywhere you are, | 随便你在哪里使用公共交通就太方便了 |
| 103 | even in the countryside, you don't need to have a car. | 即使在农村,你不需要有车。 |
| 104 | Obviously it's going to make life easier | 很明显这会让生活变得轻松 |
| 105 | some ways if you have a car, but you don't need it. | 如果你有车,你不需要车 |
| 106 | I generally just feel like transportation | 我一般只是觉得自己喜欢搭便车 |
| 107 | period is easier in Latin America. | 拉丁美洲的时期比较容易。 |
| 108 | Also, especially because of the more tropical | 而且,特别是因为 热带更强。 |
| 109 | climates, you can have like a motorcycle. | 气候,你可以有 像摩托车。 |
| 110 | There are moto taxis like in Columbia, for example, | 例如,哥伦比亚有摩托出租车 |
| 111 | there's a lot of options that just don't exist in the U S to live in the United States. | 有很多选择 在美国并不存在 在美国生活。 |
| 112 | You're | 琌 |
| 113 | just going to end up having a car, but there's a really high risk of getting in an accident. | 但发生意外的风险很高 |
| 114 | Like every day I would see car accidents on the highways, on the, on the side of the road is | 就像每天我会看到车祸 在高速公路上 在路边 |
| 115 | extremely common. | 极为常见。 |
| 116 | The car accidents happen all the time in the U S because there's just | 车祸在美国时常发生 因为... |
| 117 | so many cars in the road and some parts of the country, they have like four or five, | 路上有很多车, 和一些地方, 他们有四,五, |
| 118 | six lane highways. | 六车道高速公路. |
| 119 | It looks like such a big waste of metal and material and we're all going to like | 看起来像一个巨大的浪费 金属和材料 我们都会喜欢 |
| 120 | relatively the same part of town, the same area. | 城镇相对相同,面积相同. |
| 121 | And we just have all these cars, like five lanes | 我们只有这些车 就像五条路 |
| 122 | of cars, and we're all just one person in each car. | 我们每辆车都只有一个人 |
| 123 | It's just, doesn't seem efficient. | 它只是,似乎没有效率。 |
| 124 | It seems | 看起来 |
| 125 | silly. | 蠢货 |
| 126 | And you'd think that for United States claiming to be a developed country, that it would | 你会认为,对于声称是发达国家的美国来说, |
| 127 | have a much more developed transportation system. | 拥有一个更发达的运输系统。 |
| 128 | I don't know, maybe like some high-speed trains, | 我不知道,也许像一些高速列车, |
| 129 | some like really nice trains that go everywhere. | 一些像非常好的火车 到处都是。 |
| 130 | Like some countries in Asia have in Europe in | 就像亚洲的一些国家在欧洲 |
| 131 | that aspect. | 这一点。 |
| 132 | I think the U S is extremely underdeveloped, even though Latin America might | 尽管拉丁美洲可能 |
| 133 | not have the most developed transportation system in the world. | 没有世界上最发达的运输系统。 |
| 134 | I still prefer the way it is now | 我还是更喜欢现在的样子 |
| 135 | than in the United States. | 而不是在美国 |
| 136 | The next thing that I prefer in Latin America is one of my favorite | 接下来,我更喜欢在拉丁美洲 是我的最爱之一 |
| 137 | things. | 东西。 |
| 138 | This changes depending on the country and the region, but generally fruit and vegetables | 这种变化取决于国家和地区,但一般是水果和蔬菜 |
| 139 | and produce and farmers markets are much more abundant and accessible and affordable than in | 农产品和农民市场比 |
| 140 | the United States. | 美国。 |
| 141 | The United States, farmers markets is more of like a luxury thing. | 美国,农民市场更像是奢侈品 |
| 142 | It's | 这是 |
| 143 | often more expensive. | 往往更贵。 |
| 144 | It's often only available in very specific places on very specific days. | 通常只在非常具体的日子里在非常具体的地方提供. |
| 145 | It's something that you have to like research and figure out like, okay, where are the farmers | 这是你必须喜欢的 研究并找出像, 好吧,农民在哪里 |
| 146 | markets? | 市场? |
| 147 | Because it's not something that everybody participates in. | 因为并不是每个人都参与其中 |
| 148 | It's not just a normal aspect of | 不只是一个正常的方面 |
| 149 | life like it is in Latin America. | 生活就像在拉丁美洲一样 |
| 150 | In Latin America, these markets are often open all the time, | 在拉丁美洲,这些市场经常开放, |
| 151 | every day. | 每天都这样 |
| 152 | People are selling fresh produce from their farm. | 人们正在出售农场里的新鲜产品。 |
| 153 | It's often cheaper than going to the | 经常比去 |
| 154 | store. | 存储。 |
| 155 | Additionally, you can find small stores that specifically just sell produce like fruterias | 此外,你可以找到一些小商店, 专门销售像果冻之类的产品 |
| 156 | and these little tiendas that have fruits and vegetables. | 以及那些有水果和蔬菜的小龙卷风。 |
| 157 | In Ecuador, you can find those on | 在厄瓜多尔,你可以找到这些在 |
| 158 | every single corner. | 每一个角落。 |
| 159 | I think it was more accessible there than anywhere else. | 我认为它比其他任何地方都更容易进入。 |
| 160 | But even like in Argentina, | 但即使在阿根廷, |
| 161 | I was expecting there to not be so many fruterias everywhere, like little fruit stores. | 我本来期望这里不会有这么多的 胡闹,像小水果店。 |
| 162 | And actually, | 事实上, |
| 163 | I was surprised there were, there were a lot. | 我很惊讶那里有很多 |
| 164 | The United States, we basically don't have little fruit | 美国,我们基本上没有小果实 |
| 165 | stores. | 商店。 |
| 166 | We don't have fruit and vegetable stores. | 我们没有水果蔬菜店 |
| 167 | We don't have a lot of small stores in general, | 我们一般没有多少小商店 |
| 168 | right? | 对吧? |
| 169 | We just have these giant grocery stores, supermarkets. | 我们只有这些巨大的杂货店,超市。 |
| 170 | So anytime you need fruits or | 所以,无论何时你需要水果或 |
| 171 | vegetables, little basic food items, you always have to go to the supermarket because what are you | 蔬菜,小食物,你总是要去超市 因为你是什么 |
| 172 | going to get? | 要去得到吗? |
| 173 | You're going to get a bag of chips, you know, like you're going to get some ice cream, | 你会得到一袋筹码,你知道, 就像你会得到一些冰淇淋, |
| 174 | you're going to get some junk food. | 你会得到一些垃圾食品。 |
| 175 | We don't have healthy food at little convenience stores | 我们没有健康的食物 在小便利店 |
| 176 | and gas stations. | 还有加油站 |
| 177 | So you have to go to the grocery store. | 所以你必须去杂货店 |
| 178 | That's like the only place you can get real | 这就像你唯一可以得到真实的地方 |
| 179 | food. | 饭食. |
| 180 | And even a lot of the produce, a lot of the food at the grocery store is a little suspicious | 甚至很多产品, 很多食品在杂货店 有点可疑 |
| 181 | and sometimes doesn't taste very good and just not as good quality as in Latin America as well. | 有时味道不怎么好 质量也不如拉丁美洲好 |
| 182 | One of my favorite things about being in Mexico is going to the Tianguis, the big street market, | 我最喜欢的一件事 在墨西哥是去天国, 大街道市场, |
| 183 | where you can get all your groceries, all your produce. | 在那里你可以得到你所有的杂货, 所有你的产品。 |
| 184 | Every day in Ecuador, I could go to town | 每天在厄瓜多尔,我可以去镇上 |
| 185 | and I could see people selling stuff from their farm every single day. | 我可以看到人们每天在农场里卖东西 |
| 186 | You could buy stuff right | 你可以买好东西 |
| 187 | from the jungle, like I was in the Amazon, ayahuasca in a bottle to rare jungle fruits and medicine, | 从丛林,就像我在亚马逊, 阿亚瓦斯卡在一个瓶子 稀有的丛林水果和药品, |
| 188 | to all kinds of things. | 对各种事物。 |
| 189 | They're basic, you know, bananas, papayas. | 他们是基本的,你知道的,香蕉,木瓜。 |
| 190 | They're selling chicha, | 他们卖奇查, |
| 191 | like the drink, you know, fermented drink. | 像饮料,你知道,发酵饮料。 |
| 192 | I love market culture and I really hope it doesn't go | 我喜欢市场文化 我真的希望它不会走 |
| 193 | away. | 离开。 |
| 194 | And I'm scared for future generations. | 我为后代感到害怕。 |
| 195 | I'm afraid that we're going to be losing this | 我怕我们会失去这个 |
| 196 | in Latin America. | 在拉丁美洲。 |
| 197 | It's going to become more like the United States. | 它会变得更像美国。 |
| 198 | I mean, I hope that doesn't | 我的意思是,我希望这不会 |
| 199 | happen, but if it does happen, I hope at least we still maintain the frutarias. | 但如果真的发生 我希望至少我们还能维持佛罗伦萨 |
| 200 | I hope we still have | 我希望我们还有 |
| 201 | all these little stores everywhere and it's not going to be just like everything at the grocery | 到处都是这些小店,不会像杂货店一样 |
| 202 | store and that's it. | 商店,就是这样。 |
| 203 | Everything at the big supermarket and that's it. | 在大超市的一切,就这样。 |
| 204 | That would be really | 那会是真的 |
| 205 | sad. | 悲伤 |
| 206 | But until that happens, if it does happen, Latin America is better than the United States | 但在此之前,如果真的发生,拉丁美洲比美国强 |
| 207 | in that aspect. | 在这方面。 |
| 208 | Also, the fact that a lot of it is tropical and you can get tropical fruits much | 而且,它有很多是热带的 你可以得到很多热带水果 |
| 209 | more easily than you can get in the United States. | 比你在美国要容易得多 |
| 210 | You can get fruits that you can't even find in the | 你可以得到水果 你甚至找不到在 |
| 211 | U.S. and much better quality and much cheaper. | 美国质量更高,价格更低廉 |
| 212 | It's sad. | 悲'. |
| 213 | A lot of my family has only had the | 我家里很多人只经历过 |
| 214 | really horrible mangoes that they sell in the grocery store in Maine, where I'm from. | 我来自缅因州杂货店 卖的芒果真可怕 |
| 215 | To me, | 对我来说 |
| 216 | those mangoes are just absolute trash. | 那些芒果只是绝对的垃圾。 |
| 217 | Even if they're shipped in from like Mexico or wherever, | 即使从墨西哥或任何地方运来 |
| 218 | they're still just like horrible mangoes. | 他们还是像可怕的芒果。 |
| 219 | I have really high standards for fruits, | 我对水果有很高的标准 |
| 220 | just like you have to go to the country and you have to find the good fruit. | 就像你必须去乡下 找到好水果一样 |
| 221 | I spent my | 我花了我的钱 |
| 222 | whole childhood without ever having a fresh mango, a papaya. | 整个童年都没吃过芒果 木瓜 |
| 223 | I never knew what these were, | 我不知道这些是什么 |
| 224 | you know, because I never tried more than one kind of banana. | 你知道,因为我从来没有尝试过 不止一种香蕉。 |
| 225 | I don't want to live like that | 我不想那样生活 |
| 226 | ever again. | 从此以后 |
| 227 | So I want to live in a place with abundant tropical fruit that's very | 所以我想住在一个 热带果实丰富的地方 |
| 228 | accessible and affordable and good quality. | (c) 无障碍、负担得起和优质。 |
| 229 | The next reason why I love most of Latin America | 下一个原因,我爱 大部分拉丁美洲 |
| 230 | is the climate. | 是气候。 |
| 231 | I really like warm tropical climates, but the cool thing about Latin America | 我真的很喜欢温暖的热带气候 但拉丁美洲的酷毙了 |
| 232 | is that there's a lot of elevation. | 是有很多高地。 |
| 233 | There's a lot of mountains. | 山多'. |
| 234 | So if you get tired of the heat, | 所以,如果你厌倦了热, |
| 235 | you want something a little bit in between, like not too cold, not too hot. | 你想要一些东西在中间, 喜欢不太冷,不要太热。 |
| 236 | A lot of the more | 还有很多 |
| 237 | popular cities in Latin America are actually at an elevation that creates this kind of eternal | 拉丁美洲的受欢迎城市实际上处于高地 创造了这种永恒 |
| 238 | spring type climate or even like living in the Andes or, you know, places that are a bit cold, | 春天的气候,甚至像 生活在安第斯山脉 或者,你知道, 地方有点冷, |
| 239 | especially in the nighttime. | 特别是晚上 |
| 240 | It's still not as cold as where I'm from in Maine. | 还没我来自缅因州的地方那么冷 |
| 241 | You know, | 你知道吗, |
| 242 | it doesn't get snow. | 它不会下雪。 |
| 243 | It's not freezing cold. | 冷不冻. |
| 244 | So it's really nice. | 所以这是真的很好。 |
| 245 | I feel like no matter what | 无论怎样,我都觉得 |
| 246 | your preferences are, you can find a climate that you really love in Latin America. | 你的喜好是,你可以找到一个 你真正喜欢的气候 在拉丁美洲。 |
| 247 | The United | 联合国 |
| 248 | States, you have different kinds of climates, of course, but the South is just extremely hot | 当然,各国气候不同,但南方非常炎热 |
| 249 | in the summer and the North is extremely cold in the winter. | 在夏季,北方在冬季极度寒冷。 |
| 250 | So you have these extremes. | 所以你有这些极端。 |
| 251 | When I | 当我 |
| 252 | experienced so much heat as they experience in the South of the United States in the summer. | 夏天他们在美国南方经历了如此多的热量。 |
| 253 | So people tend to think that, oh, just because you're near the equator, it's going to be super | 所以人们往往认为, 哦,只是因为你靠近赤道, 它会是超级 |
| 254 | hot. | 热。 |
| 255 | It's just not true because there's just so much elevation in these countries. | 这不是真的 因为这些国家有这么多高地 |
| 256 | I've actually | 其实我 |
| 257 | been really cold a lot, like traveling in the Andes and being in Mexico City sometimes and | 经常很冷 就像在安第斯山脉旅行 有时在墨西哥城 |
| 258 | even Oaxaca City in the nighttime in the winter. | 甚至瓦哈卡市在冬季的夜间。 |
| 259 | Yeah, it gets cold. | 是啊,它变得冷。 |
| 260 | Quito in Ecuador is really | 厄瓜多尔的基多真的 |
| 261 | cold. | 凉. |
| 262 | Quito is a really cold city. | 基多是个冷酷的城市 |
| 263 | The next thing that's better in Latin America than the U.S. | 接下来在拉丁美洲比美国好 |
| 264 | is the healthcare. | 是医疗 |
| 265 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 266 | This is a huge topic. | 这是一个巨大的话题。 |
| 267 | The healthcare in the U.S. is just so | 美国的医护状况 |
| 268 | disproportional to the salary. | 与工资不成比例。 |
| 269 | The cost of it is just absolutely insane. | 代价太高了 |
| 270 | It's a joke. | 这是一个笑话。 |
| 271 | It's a laughing stock of the world and the quality is just average. | 这是世界的笑柄 质量只是平均的 |
| 272 | It's actually not better. | 这其实不是更好。 |
| 273 | The | 那个 |
| 274 | quality is not proportional to the cost. | 质量与成本不相称。 |
| 275 | I got cavities fixed in my teeth in Ecuador | 在厄瓜多尔我牙齿上修了个洞 |
| 276 | for like $20 a tooth. | 20块一牙 |
| 277 | $20 is like one day of minimum wage salary in Ecuador. | 20美元相当于厄瓜多尔最低工资的一天。 |
| 278 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 279 | To fix a tooth in the U.S. is not the cost of one day of minimum wage salary in the U.S. | 在美国修牙不是美国一天最低工资工资的费用. |
| 280 | We wish. | 我们希望。 |
| 281 | No, it's more than that. | 不 不止这样 |
| 282 | You need to have health insurance or you're screwed. | 你需要医疗保险 否则你就完了 |
| 283 | When I was in Buenos Aires, I got a doctor checkup. | 当我在布宜诺斯艾利斯的时候,我得到了一个医生检查。 |
| 284 | I think it was like $10. | 我想是10块 |
| 285 | Seriously, | 说真的, |
| 286 | like $10. | 像10块。 |
| 287 | Even when I was in Mexico City, I was in one of the more expensive neighborhoods, | 即使我在墨西哥城, 我在一个比较昂贵的街区, |
| 288 | Roma. | 罗马人 |
| 289 | And I went to a dentist in that neighborhood and I got a wisdom tooth pulled for like $100. | 我到那个街区的牙医那里找了颗智牙 价值100美元 |
| 290 | And I'm sure you can get it way cheaper in a different part of the city or in a different | 我敢肯定,你可以得到它 便宜的方式在城市的另一部分或不同的 |
| 291 | part of Mexico. | 墨西哥的一部分。 |
| 292 | But that was like the expensive dentist cost was like $100 to get a tooth pulled. | 但是,那就像昂贵的牙医 费用是100美元 得到一个牙拔。 |
| 293 | Also, the service in my experience is better. | 而且,我的经验是更好的服务。 |
| 294 | I had a more one-on-one genuine interaction with | 我有一个更一对一 真正的互动 |
| 295 | the dentist, the doctor. | 牙医,医生 |
| 296 | I felt they weren't rushing me. | 我觉得他们没催我 |
| 297 | I felt like I could ask them anything | 我觉得我可以问他们什么 |
| 298 | or talk to them about anything. | 或者和他们谈任何事 |
| 299 | Another thing that's horrible about U.S. health care is that | 美国医疗的另一件可怕的事情是 |
| 300 | when you try to book an appointment, they're often booked for months. | 当你试图预约时, 他们经常被预订几个月。 |
| 301 | So you have to schedule | 所以,你必须安排 |
| 302 | an appointment for like three months from now. | 约三个月后 |
| 303 | They don't have much availability. | 他们没有太多可用的。 |
| 304 | But anytime | 但随时 |
| 305 | in Latin America that I needed to schedule an appointment, I literally just look them up on | 在拉丁美洲,我需要安排一个约会, 我从字面上看他们 |
| 306 | Google Maps. | 谷歌地图. |
| 307 | I get their number. | 我得到了他们的号码。 |
| 308 | I usually just text them on WhatsApp and say like, | 我通常只会在WhatsApp上发短信说 |
| 309 | They usually tell me either that day or the next day or within like one to two days they're | 他们通常告诉我,要么那天,要么第二天, 要么在一到两天之内 |
| 310 | available. | 可用。 |
| 311 | And we schedule the appointment and I go and they see me immediately. | 我们安排了约会,我马上去他们那里 |
| 312 | And then even | 然后连 |
| 313 | after the appointment, oftentimes they will message you or you can just text them to schedule like a | 预约后,他们常常会给你留言,或者你可以发短信给他们 安排像一个 |
| 314 | follow-up appointment if you need. | 如有需要,可进行后续预约。 |
| 315 | I'm not an expert on this topic, but I have gotten the general | 我不是这个话题的专家 但我得到了将军 |
| 316 | impression that in a lot of countries in Latin America, there is free public health care and | 认为在拉丁美洲的许多国家,免费的公共卫生保健以及 |
| 317 | also private health care that you can pay for. | 私人医疗保健服务包括私人医疗保健服务。私人医疗保健服务包括私人医疗保健服务、私人医疗保健服务等。 |
| 318 | So you have like two different options. | 所以你有两种不同的选择。 |
| 319 | I'm not | 我没有 |
| 320 | even asking for free health care in the U.S. | 甚至要求在美国提供免费医疗. |
| 321 | I'm just asking for affordable health care and it's | 我只是要求 负担得起的保健,这是 |
| 322 | not. | 没有 |
| 323 | And I would be very afraid to live there, especially as I get older. | 我将非常害怕住在那里, 特别是当我长大了。 |
| 324 | And I have heard of | 我听说过 |
| 325 | a lot of older people leaving the U.S. because of the health care, because it's just way too | 很多老人因为医疗而离开美国, 因为这也是个问题 |
| 326 | expensive and they find just as good care a lot more affordable in other countries. | 他们发现,在其他国家,照顾也一样好。 |
| 327 | That's actually | 其实是这样 |
| 328 | the top reasons of why a lot of older like retired people from the U.S. will leave the country. | 美国退休人士等许多老年人将出国, |
| 329 | The final thing that I love about Latin America that I prefer, it's really personal to me. | 我最喜欢的关于拉丁美洲的最后一件事, 对我来说是个人的。 |
| 330 | | |
| 331 | this might not matter to you, but to me, I just love Spanish and I also love Portuguese. | 这也许对你无关紧要,但对我来说,我只爱西班牙语 我也爱葡萄牙语。 |
| 332 | I speak | 我说话 |
| 333 | Spanish and I also speak Portuguese. | 西班牙语和我也会说葡萄牙语。 |
| 334 | Not as fluent, but I'm working on it. | 没有那么流利,但我正在努力。 |
| 335 | I just love these | 我只是喜欢这些 |
| 336 | languages so much and I love especially how they're spoken in Latin America as opposed to | 我特别喜欢拉丁美洲语言的表达方式 而不是 |
| 337 | in Europe. | 在欧洲。 |
| 338 | I really love living in countries where I can practice and use my language skills | 我真的很喜欢住在能练习和使用我语言能力的国家 |
| 339 | all the time and I can always improve and people are just very happy to talk to me and help me | 一直以来,我总是可以改善, 人们只是很高兴跟我说话,帮助我 |
| 340 | with that. | 还有那个 |
| 341 | And also a lot of them either know some English or some other language or they | 很多人要么会英语 要么会其他语言 |
| 342 | think that it's important or it's good to learn another language and maybe partially because of, | 认为它很重要 或者学习另一种语言是好的 也许部分因为, |
| 343 | you know, it's been taught to them that they should learn English. | 你知道,这是教给他们的 他们应该学习英语。 |
| 344 | But it's just refreshing | 但它只是新鲜的 |
| 345 | after living in the United States and being among a lot of people who only speak English | 住在美国后, 和很多只说英语的人在一起 |
| 346 | and have absolutely no motivation to learn another language. | 没有学习另一种语言的动机 |
| 347 | It's hard for me to connect | 我很难联结 |
| 348 | to these kind of people. | 对于这种人。 |
| 349 | I think a lot of people in the U.S., not everybody, but I think there are | 我认为很多人在美国,不是每个人, 但我认为有 |
| 350 | a lot of people, especially older generations, they're living in this kind of United States | 很多人,特别是年长的一代, 他们生活在这样的美国。 |
| 351 | bubble where that is like their whole reality, their whole world, and they don't really think | 那里就像他们的全部现实, 他们的世界, 他们并不真正认为 |
| 352 | about anything outside of that. | 有关任何外在的。 |
| 353 | I think it really blocks their development as a person and as some | 我觉得这真的阻碍了他们作为一个人和一些 |
| 354 | body who travels to many different countries and tries to learn other languages, it's kind of hard | 身体去很多不同的国家 尝试学习其他语言, 这有点困难 |
| 355 | for me to connect to those kind of people. | 让我能和这些人联系 |
| 356 | I connect more with like people of the world, | 我和世界人民的联系更紧密 |
| 357 | you know, not just people from the United States. | 你知道,不只是来自美国的人。 |
| 358 | I connect with travelers and people who have, | 我和旅行者和那些... |
| 359 | you know, a broader reference of what life looks like. | 你知道,一个更广泛的参考 生活是什么样子。 |
| 360 | I think it's really important for us to | 我觉得这对我们很重要 |
| 361 | have that. | 拿着 |
| 362 | But yes, also just for selfish reasons, I love living in countries that speak Spanish | 是的,同样出于自私的原因,我喜欢住在说西班牙语的国家 |
| 363 | because I can speak Spanish and I love speaking Spanish. | 因为我会说西班牙语 我喜欢说西班牙语 |
| 364 | So I'm sure that there are other reasons | 所以我肯定还有其他原因 |
| 365 | why I prefer Latin America over the U.S. | 为什么我更喜欢拉丁美洲而不是美国? |
| 366 | There's also things I prefer in the U.S. compared to | 在美国我更喜欢的东西 比起 |
| 367 | Latin America. | 拉丁美洲。 |
| 368 | So it's not like everything is perfect in Latin America and everything's bad in | 所以,这不是一切都是完美的 在拉丁美洲和一切的坏在 |
| 369 | the U.S. Of course not. | 当然不是美国 |
| 370 | There are pros and cons to living in both places. | 住此两地有利弊. |
| 371 | If you live in the U.S. | 若住美国. |
| 372 | and you love living there, fantastic. | 你喜欢住在那里,太棒了。 |
| 373 | You got to listen to what feels right for you. | 你得听听你对自己的感觉 |
| 374 | I'm just | 我只是说 |
| 375 | sharing in this video why I don't think I will live in the U.S. ever again. | 分享这段录像,我为何认为我再也不会在美国生活了. |
| 376 | As much as my family | 就像我的家人一样 |
| 377 | doesn't want to hear that and would love for me to live there, it just doesn't feel right for me | 不想听 并且会喜欢我住在那里, 它只是感觉不适合我 |
| 378 | and my journey in my life. | 还有我一生的旅程 |
| 379 | If you're learning English, if you're working on your English | 如果你学英语,如果你在学习英语 |
| 380 | comprehension, you can tell me in the comments how much you understood. | 理解,你可以在评论中告诉我 你了解多少。 |
| 381 | I'm sure you guys will also | 我相信你们也会 |
| 382 | tell me about your opinions and what you think. | 告诉我你的意见和想法 |
| 383 | I understand that I'm coming to this topic with | 我知道我要来讨论这个话题 |
| 384 | some privilege. | 某种特权。 |
| 385 | I have the privilege of being able to choose which one. | 我有幸能选择哪一个。 |
| 386 | Some people don't even have | 有些人甚至没有 |
| 387 | the option of really being able to choose the United States. | 可以选择美国 |
| 388 | But I don't think I have the | 但我不认为我有 |
| 389 | privilege of money, you know, being able to live in Latin America with so much more money, which | 金钱的特权,你知道, 能够生活在拉丁美洲 用这么多的钱, |
| 390 | makes it better. | 让它更好。 |
| 391 | Because actually the entire time I lived in Ecuador, I was making basically like | 因为实际上我住在厄瓜多尔的整个时间 我基本上就像 |
| 392 | an Ecuadorian's minimum wage salary. | 厄瓜多尔最低工资。 |
| 393 | I was not making very much money. | 我没有赚很多钱。 |
| 394 | If I have to make minimum | 如果我必须做到最低限度 |
| 395 | wage and have a low salary, I would rather do that in Latin America than in the U.S. because it will | 我宁愿在拉丁美洲也不愿在美国, |
| 396 | still be easier for me in Latin America to find a cheap room to rent, to use public transportation, | 在拉丁美洲我还是比较容易找到一个便宜的房间租房,使用公共交通工具, |
| 397 | to walk, to get health care. | 去散步,去获得医疗。 |
| 398 | If you live on minimum wage in the U.S., you're probably going | 如果你在美国靠最低工资过活,你可能会去 |
| 399 | to struggle a lot more. | 更努力地挣扎 |
| 400 | You can't even go get like a cheap almuerzo at like a little local restaurant. | 你甚至不能去得到像一个廉价的almuerzo 像一个当地的小餐馆。 |
| 401 | We don't have that in the U.S., you know, where they make one meal for everybody. | 在美国,我们没有,你知道, 他们在那里为每个人做一顿饭。 |
| 402 | Therefore, | 因此, |
| 403 | it's cheaper and you can go have that for lunch and then you can go get cheap quality food at | 更便宜,你可以去吃午饭 然后去买便宜的优质食物 |
| 404 | farmers market. | 农民市场。 |
| 405 | Also, if you need to make money, you can always sell things on the street in Latin | 而且,如果你需要赚钱, 你总是可以出售的东西 在街道上用拉丁文 |
| 406 | America. | 美国。 |
| 407 | You can't in the U.S. You're not allowed to just go out and sell things on the street. | 不能在美国. 你不能随便出去卖东西 |
| 408 | So because of this, I always say if you're going to be poor, it's better to be poor in Latin America | 因此,我总是说,如果你要贫穷, 最好在拉丁美洲贫穷。 |
| 409 | than in the United States. | 而不是在美国 |
| 410 | The United States has a huge homelessness problem now. | 美国现在面临巨大的无家可归问题。 |
| 411 | Alright, so that's | 好吧,所以这是 |
| 412 | basically everything I wanted to say in this video. | 基本上所有我想在视频中说。 |
| 413 | I probably forgot some things, but thanks for | 我可能忘了一些东西,但是谢谢你 |
| 414 | watching and I'll see you in the next video. | 看着 下段录像见 |
| 415 | Don't forget to like and subscribe. | 别忘了喜欢和订阅 |
| 416 | It helps me a lot. | 这对我很有帮助 |
| 417 | Turn on the notifications so you know when I post another video. | 打开通知,你知道 当我发布另一个视频。 |
| 418 | Alright, see you. | 好吧,再见。 |
| 419 | Bye bye. | 再见 |
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