A survey of the local Black and Hispanic residents by the New York Times on March 16,1999 showed that 55% of the Hispanics and 65% of the Blacks believed that police violence is on the rise

55%的拉裔美国人和65%的黑人的认为,警察暴行在上升

As president of both Colombia (1821-30)and Peru (1823-29), Bolívar oversaw the creation in 1826 of a league of Hispanic American states, but the new states soon began warring among themselves.

玻利瓦尔担任了哥伦比亚总统(1821～1830)和秘鲁总统(1823～1829)，监督1826年西班牙系拉丁美洲国家联盟的创立，但不久这些新国家就互相开战。

First, it cast the gift-bearing magi as kings, giving rise to the alternate name for Western Epiphany, namely “Three Kings Day”-the big day for gifts in most of the hispanic world

第一种是把携带礼物的智者说成是国王，因而导致了西方主显节有了另一个名称“三王节”--这在西班牙语系国家是送礼的好日子。

Today they form an important part of the Republican electorate, but George W. Bush is eager to increase the Republican Party’s appeal to non-Europeans, especially the growing Hispanic population

今天，这些人形成了共和党选区的一部分重要群体，但布什总统现在急于提高共和党在非欧洲裔美国人中特别是不断增长的拉美裔人口中的号召力。

Similar problems afflict another, potentially larger, minority group---Hispanic Americans

类似的问题同样也困扰着另一个(人口可能会超过黑人的)少数民族--拉裔美国人。

While the Black, Hispanic and American Indian population accounts for 24% of the US total, the number of doctors of these races only stands at 7% of the country’s total doctors

美国的黑人,拉裔美国人和印第安人占全美总人口的24%,但是他们的医生人数只占医生总数的7%

A small Hispanic grocery store,sometimes combined with a wineshop.

小杂货店，酒店经常有一酒吧的西班牙小杂货铺

electioneering: an effort to win more votes from Hispanic citizens this November and, in future decades, from newly naturalized Americans who are, at the moment, unlawful sojourners in the country

意在大选:要在今年11月赢得更多的西班牙裔美国公民的选票，并在今后的几十年中，能从新归化的美国人也就是今天的非法移民中获得更多的选票。

There was a hispanic girl in special education because she just never learned to read

有一个西班牙女孩由于从没学会阅读而接受特别教育。

There was a Hispanic girl in special education because she just never learned to read. And she was terribly intimidated in class, so she never was able to communicate that she simply didn’t get the basic phonic concepts.

有一个西班牙女孩由于从没学会阅读而接受特别教育。在班上，她相当胆怯，因此总不能与人交流，以至连基本的语音概念都没有。

||1: Even as the debate about illegal immigration has become shriller, the phenomenon itself has declined. ||2: The recession has helped to stem the flow of job-seekers across America’s southern border. ||3: Despite more vigorous policing, the number of people caught trying to cross has declined markedly. ||4: This week the Pew Hispanic Centre, a research institute, released a report arguing that Mexicans, who once accounted for most of the illegal influx, are now leaving the country in greater numbers than they are entering it.

||1:尽管对非法移民本身的争论日渐激化,这种现象本身却在减少。||2:美国经济衰退,阻止了一大批想跨过美国南方边境来找工作的人。||3:尽管监管越来越严密,被当场抓住试图穿越国境的人的数量却显著下降。||4:本周一家研究机构,皮尤西裔研究中心发布了一份报告,称过去墨西哥人占据了非法移民者中的大多数,而现在他们离开美国的人数比进入美国的还要多.

||1:Her Democratic predecessor, Bill Richardson, is of Mexican descent on his mother’s side.||2:And Brian Sandoval in Nevada is both Latino and Republican.||3:But Ms Martinez is the only governor who is simultaneously Hispanic , female and Republican.||4:As such, she seems well on the way to embodying the party’s hoped-for future as a conservative movement that can appeal to, rather than repel, Latinos, America’s fastest-growing main ethnic group.

||1:前任州长、民主党人比尔?理查森的母亲是墨西哥人。||2:内华达州州长布莱恩?桑多瓦尔既是拉丁裔又是共和党人。||3:但是马丁内斯是唯一一名共和党拉丁裔的女性州长。||4:由于她的特殊身份，马丁内斯似乎正在成为一种形象，代表着共和党所希望的未来：即把共和党转变为一个吸引，而不是压制美国增长最快的主要民族群体－拉美裔人的保守派运动。

||1: THEY are, typically, young Hispanic or black males; but the victims of gang killings are no more likely to be involved in drugs or other crimes than their non-gang slain counterparts. ||2: According to a new study by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which looked at five cities with high numbers of gang murders between the years 2003 and 2008, drug trading or usage and other criminal activity ranged from zero to 25% of all gang-related killings. ||3: Less than 1% of gang homicides were drug-related in two of the cities; Long Beach and Los Angeles, in California. And in three of the cities less than 3% of gang homicides took place during a crime.

||1:一提起黑帮分子，人们就会想到西班牙或非洲裔小伙子。而惨遭黑帮杀戮的受害者，他们既不大可能于毒品和其它犯罪有关，也与帮会没有太多瓜葛。||2:从2003年到2008年，疾病控制及预防中心（简称CDC）对黑帮谋杀案件发生最频繁的五个城市进行了调查。结果显示，在所有与帮会有关的谋杀案件中，吸毒、贩毒和其它犯罪活动在这五个城市中所占比例不一，在0到25%之间徘徊。||3:其中，加州的长岛和洛杉矶，只有不到1%的帮会谋杀于毒品有关。而在其中的三座城市里，与犯罪有关的帮会谋杀要少于3%。

||1:Gentrification has also helped: Washington, DC’s Navy Yard for instance, 95% black in 2000, is now less than a third black.||2:America is also no longer a biracial country.Latinos and Asians are moving into so-called white and black neighbourhoods.||3:The typical black American now lives in a neighbourhood that is 14% Hispanic , about the same figure as for whites.

||1:中产阶级化也推波助澜：以华盛顿特区海军码头为例，2000年时那里95%都是黑人，而现在其黑人人数只有不到三分之一。||2:美国也不再是一个只有两个种族的国家，拉丁裔和亚裔的美国人也开始搬进那些曾经的白人和黑人社区。||3:典型美国黑人现在生活的社区中，拉丁裔美国人占到14%，与社区中白人所占比例相当。

||1: IT MAY have taken the Supreme Court just an hour to wrap up its discussion of illegal immigration this week, but America’s politicians, it seems, cannot get enough of the subject. ||2: It will be several months before the court rules on the case in question, which concerns a state law in Arizona, but Democratic leaders in the Senate are already planning a vote to overturn its decision if the law is upheld. ||3: That vote would presumably fail, thanks to Republican opposition, but it would allow the Democrats to keep the subject in the news. ||4: Democrats are also attacking Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, for supporting the law. ||5: Mr Romney, meanwhile, has dismissed the whole fuss as an effort to distract Hispanic voters from Mr Obama’s failings as steward of the economy. ||6: The outcome of the presidential race, both sides acknowledge, could conceivably hinge on whether it is the state of the economy or laws like Arizona’s that stir more indignation among Hispanics.

||1:最高法院本周对于非法移民的讨论也许只持续了一个小时，但是美国的政客们看上去从未停止在非法移民这个问题上大做文章。||2:最高法院裁决这个涉及到亚利桑那州州法律的案子还将花上几个月,但是参议院中民主党的领袖已经在计划,一旦最高法院判亚利桑那州州法律有效,就发动一场投票来推翻这一决议。||3:由于参议院中共和党的反对,这一投票多半会失败,但民主党却能把这一话题保留在公众视野中。||4:民主党也批评米特·罗姆尼,因为这位预定的共和党总统竞选人支持这一法律。||5:同时,罗姆尼认为这整场闹剧只不过是民主党人想借此来分散西班牙裔选民的注意力,让他们忽视奥巴马总统作为经济守门人的失职。||6:民主共和两党都承认,经济状态和激起西班牙裔美国人愤慨的亚利桑那州法律,都可能影响总统大选的结果.

“He’s got words that can reach to every corner of the world, ” marvelled another Hispanic lady, “and the world is waiting for him. ”

“他的话可以触及世界的每个角落”另一位拉丁裔的女士惊叹的说，“这个世界都在等待他。”

“The Hispanic community in the U. S. is almost a country within a country, ” says Univision’s Uva.

“在美国的西班牙社区几乎成为了国中之国，”Univision的Uva说到。

El Centro is about 70% Hispanic , and Spanish is the dominant language on the radio and streets.

埃尔森特罗城70%为西班牙和葡萄牙人，葡萄牙语是广播和交流的主要语言。

Oaxaca is 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic colonial glory in green quarry stone, luminescent after rainfalls.

奥克萨卡绿色的石墙在雨后闪闪发光，它是16—17世纪西班牙殖民主义者的荣耀。

Whites and Asians outpaced African-American and Hispanic students.

白人和亚洲人超过了非洲裔和西班牙裔学生。

For example, El Camino College in California holds pronunciation classes for staff who might otherwise struggle with Hispanic names.

比如，加州艾尔卡密诺城市学院（ElCaminoCollege）就为教职人员开设了语音班，让他们不必再为西班牙的人名而纠结。

And the Americans doing the asking are likely to be “Anglos” , as non-Hispanic whites are often called.

并且那些查询的人很有可能是“盎格鲁”人，人们经常这样称呼祖籍非拉丁美洲的白人。

Crowds of young Hispanic men loiter on street corners in the middle of the day.

成群的西班牙裔年轻人大中午在街角闲逛。

Women represent just 11% of Harley buyers, and penetration in the African-American and Hispanic markets is similarly limited.

此外，哈雷的女性顾客仅占顾客总数的11%，而它在黑人和西班牙裔人群中的普及率也十分有限。

Asian and Hispanic scientists do just as well as white ones. Black scientists, however, do badly.

此外，它不仅只是白人至上的问题，亚洲裔和西班牙裔待遇跟白人一样好，然而，黑人科学家就不是那样了。

A high proportion of students are poor, black or Hispanic .

大部分的学生很贫困，黑人和西班牙裔学生占了很高的比例。

When Mr Obama nominated Mr Gregg, black and Hispanic Democrats complained that he could not be trusted to run a fair census in 2010.

当奥巴马先生提名格雷格先生（担任商务秘书）的时候，非洲和西班牙语系的民主党议员抱怨说，他不能被信任在2010年组织一个公正的人口普查。

More than half the children in the first grade of Texas schools are Hispanic .

德克萨斯州小学一年级的学生中有超过一半的学生是拉美裔。

Nobody except Mr Bush seemed to have a good word to say for America’s first Hispanic attorney-general.

对这位美国历史上首位西班牙裔司法部长，除了布什，似乎再也没有人说他好话。

Ecuador boasts the glories of Quito and, at the Museo Nacional, Hispanic America’s greatest collection of pre-Columbian ceramics.

厄瓜多尔引以为荣的是首都基多，国家博物馆收藏着最为丰富的前哥伦布时期的陶瓷。