时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2015年VOA慢速英语(十一)月


英语课

AS IT IS 2015-10-31 Refugees Lead Alabama Shrimp 1 Industry 东南亚裔渔民引领阿拉巴马州虾产业


Forty years ago, many Southeast Asians fled war in their home countries and chose to come to the United States. Some got on ships that sailed to U.S. territory. The refugees knew they were escaping wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, but had no real idea of where they were going.


Now, some of these people live in an American town that seems like an unlikely place for refugees to settle: Bayou La Batre, Alabama.


Bayou La Batre is considered the seafood 2 capital of Alabama. Shrimp is the town’s biggest export.


Dung Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American shrimper. He remembers leaving Vietnam with his family. He says they first stayed in the Western Pacific island of Guam.


"We didn't know we were coming to the United States until they got everybody off of the ship in Guam,” he says. "They had a camp there. We stayed in the camp for about two [or] three months, and then we had a sponsor to go to Panama City, (Florida)."


A sponsor is someone who helps an immigrant transition to a new life in the United States. Sponsors can provide assistance with housing, completing government documents and other concerns.


But Dung Nguyen says it did not actually happen that way.


He says he worked for his sponsor in Panama City for three months. But, he was never paid for his work. Eventually, he brought his family to Bayou La Batre. There he found a familiar work environment, working on the water, doing what he had done in Vietnam.


Dung Nguyen and other refugees were not always welcomed by people in Alabama. But some locals say it is hard to imagine the seafood industry without them.


Words in This Story


sponsor – n. a person or organization that pays for the cost of an activity or event


transition – n. a change from one state or condition to another



n.虾,小虾;矮小的人
  • When the shrimp farm is built it will block the stream.一旦养虾场建起来,将会截断这条河流。
  • When it comes to seafood,I like shrimp the best.说到海鲜,我最喜欢虾。
n.海产食品,海味,海鲜
  • There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
  • Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。
标签: VOA慢速英语
学英语单词
0874
acrrospiroma
aesthetases
ambient networking
an angle of incidence
arithmetic frequency scale
atmospherics
automatic production
Barkhera
Bora Bora
Burpies
cd-xes
centrilobular
chrysopal
church organ
clearance loading gage
cross disking
crosslinked polyester
curly maple
cyber-school
DDVF (dimethyl-dichlorovinylphosphate)
deep volar arch
defect of eyebrow
derating curve
dictamnolid
DLEUROTOMARIOIDEA
dodgerblues
doubletree
dulias
dwight lyman moodies
environment contamination
fair sex
feed inlet
fibrae arcuatae externae dorsales
flap extraction of cataract
glass tube pressure gauge
glucosephosphate
Gujranwala Division
Haeju-man
handybilly
heliotropian
hemicorporeal
hermetic sealing
high-voltage switch
hot trim
hydrous bucholzite (hydrobucholzite)
i-peinted
ice drink
induced labour
iraggic
jamstec
kindermuseum
Lascari
latent defect
luminol
M'F. R.
main and by-product production
malinski
manganese copper alloys
mechanical pressure recorder
Mobert
multicolor Nanking brocade
museumwide
Nephroselmis
newbies
nimbility
nonmarine
nonmultiplicative
normatron
Numto Uval
option charge
overprioritizing
Pan-American Highway
prometaphase movement
property information system
prororoca
rastle
revivor
Ribostamin
rivalty
roquin
RSLD
schiafino
Schultze's placenta
sea water science
sialism
spiral scale
stab(punctured)
susceptibility to failure
tabular cell
thermoplastic welding strip
thin skinned ingot
trampler
treaty of brest-litovsk
tsung
Turbotville
twospeed axle
uncontent
Urban Cowboys
ventilated supercavitating propeller
walking dragline excavator