Uncertain Time for Immigrants’ Children in School
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On the first day of seventh grade in Aurora, Colorado, this past August, Alisson Ramirez worried about making friends and not understanding lessons taught in English.
去年八月，在科罗拉多州奥罗拉市上七年级的第一天，艾莉森·拉米雷斯 (Alisson Ramirez) 担心交朋友和听不懂英语课程。
"I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn't know how to answer," the Venezuelan teen says. "And I would be ashamed to answer in Spanish." But it was not what she had expected.
“我很紧张，因为人们会问我一些问题，而我不知道如何回答，”这位委内瑞拉青少年说。 “而且我会羞于用西班牙语回答。” 但这并不是她所期望的。
Her teachers had translated words from their lessons into Spanish. They gave out written instructions in Spanish. Some teachers even asked in Spanish if students had finished or had questions. "That made me feel better," says Alisson.
她的老师已将课程中的单词翻译成西班牙语。 他们用西班牙语发出了书面指示。 有些老师甚至用西班牙语询问学生是否已经完成或有问题。 “这让我感觉好多了，”阿利森说。
The 13-year-old is among the 3,000 new students, mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, at the Aurora public school system. City officials and false claims While teachers have been working hard to educate children of immigrants, outside the classrooms, city officials are not as welcoming.
这位 13 岁的学生是奥罗拉公立学校系统 3,000 名新生之一，其中大部分来自委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚。 市政府官员和虚假声明 尽管教师们一直在努力教育移民儿童，但在课堂之外，市政府官员却并不那么欢迎。
They promised not to spend any money helping newcomers and tried to keep them from coming to the area.
他们承诺不会花任何钱帮助新移民，并试图阻止他们来到该地区。
One city official even claimed that criminals from Venezuela had occupied buildings in Aurora. The police investigated and found it was not true.
一名市政府官员甚至声称来自委内瑞拉的犯罪分子占领了奥罗拉的建筑物。 警方调查后发现，该消息不属实。
But the false claim continued to spread. Maria Angel Torres is Alisson’s mother. The family had left Venezuela to escape lawlessness and violence.
但这种虚假说法仍在继续传播。 玛丽亚·安杰尔·托雷斯是阿利森的母亲。 这家人离开委内瑞拉是为了逃避无法无天和暴力。
They left behind a food truck business after being attacked for not paying protection money. The family then crossed the dangerous Darien Gap on foot to head north and seek asylum in the United States. Torres said she did not believe criminals had taken over buildings. But she worried that bad reports about Venezuelans would affect her and her family.
他们因不支付保护费而受到攻击后，放弃了一家食品卡车生意。 随后，一家人步行穿过危险的达连峡，向北前往美国寻求庇护。 托雷斯说，她不相信犯罪分子已经占领了建筑物。 但她担心有关委内瑞拉人的负面报道会影响她和她的家人。
Some organizations and churches wanted to help her family. But others are deeply afraid. Torres told the Associated Press, “I don’t look like a threat. But people here act like they feel terrorized.” Times have changed in Aurora Aurora is used to educating children of immigrants.
一些组织和教会想帮助她的家人。 但其他人却深感恐惧。 托雷斯告诉美联社：“我看起来不像是一个威胁。 但这里的人们表现得好像感到害怕。” 奥罗拉的时代已经变了 奥罗拉（Aurora）用于教育移民的孩子。
The 2020 census reported that more than a third of people in Aurora speak a language other than English at home. Immigrants and refugees have been moving to Aurora because it is close to Denver and it has a lower cost of living.
2020 年人口普查报告显示，超过三分之一的奥罗拉人在家里说英语以外的语言。 移民和难民纷纷搬到奥罗拉，因为它靠近丹佛，而且生活成本较低。
However, some schools in the area were not ready for the sudden arrival of many non-English-speaking students from Venezuela and Colombia.
然而，该地区的一些学校还没有准备好迎接来自委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚的许多非英语学生的突然到来。
Before, a teacher might have had one or two new students in her class.
以前，一位老师的班上可能会有一两个新学生。
Now, teachers in some schools have as many as 10, or a third of their classroom. Marcella Garcia is the head of Aurora Hills Middle School.
现在，一些学校的教师人数多达 10 人，占教室的三分之一。 玛塞拉·加西亚 (Marcella Garcia) 是奥罗拉山中学 (Aurora Hills Middle School) 的校长。
She observed that some new students were not talking in classrooms where only English was spoken. So, the school system advised teachers to use a method called "translanguaging." That means using Spanish or the home language at times to help new students understand English lessons and discussions happening around them. The method has helped Alisson feel more at ease.
她观察到，一些新生在只讲英语的教室里不说话。 因此，学校系统建议教师使用一种称为“跨语言”的方法。这意味着有时使用西班牙语或家庭语言来帮助新生理解英语课程和周围发生的讨论。 这种方法让阿利森感到更加自在。
One day in September, Alisson and her friends spoke Spanish among themselves as their teacher spoke to the class in English about a drawing he was showing in front of the class. It was a drawing of an ancient Egyptian marketplace. “What do you think this dude here is doing with the basket?” the teacher asked the class. One girl who had been in Aurora schools longer than the rest translated for Alisson and the other new students.
九月的一天，艾莉森和她的朋友们互相讲西班牙语，而他们的老师用英语向全班同学讲述他在全班面前展示的一幅画。 这是一幅古埃及市场的图画。 “你认为这个家伙拿着篮子做什么？”老师问全班同学。 一名在奥罗拉学校学习时间比其他人长的女孩为阿利森和其他新生做翻译。
Before the school began using this new method, teachers may have stopped the new students from talking among themselves.
在学校开始使用这种新方法之前，老师可能已经阻止新生互相交谈。
Now, they permit students to help each other in any language they can.
现在，他们允许学生用任何可以使用的语言互相帮助。
So far, there appears to be little public criticism in the area against this method. It generally requires more work for teachers, who have to translate materials or their talks in real-time. Recently, Alisson’s mother received messages from Aurora Public Schools that there have been rumors of bomb threats at its schools and others across the state.
到目前为止，该领域似乎很少有公众批评这种方法。 这通常需要教师做更多的工作，他们必须实时翻译材料或他们的演讲。 最近，阿利森的母亲收到来自奥罗拉公立学校的消息，称其学校和全州其他学校有炸弹威胁的传言。
The schools said there was no truth to the rumors. But that does not make Torres feel better.
学校表示，谣言不属实。 但这并没有让托雷斯感觉好一些。
She said in Venezuela, the country is in trouble, but no one there would think of threatening children at school. Bianca Vázquez Toness reported this story for the Associated Press.
她说，在委内瑞拉，国家陷入了麻烦，但那里没有人会想到威胁学校的孩子。 比安卡·巴斯克斯·托内斯为美联社报道了这个故事。
Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English. ______________________________________________ ashamed – adj. not wanting to do something because of shame or embarrassment take over – phrasal verb.
吉尔罗宾斯将其改编为学习英语。 _____________________________________________ 羞愧 – adj. 由于羞耻或尴尬而不想做某事 接管——短语动词。
to take control of something church – n. place of religious worship census – n.
控制某事 教堂 – n. 宗教礼拜场所 人口普查 – n.
the official process of counting the number of people in a country, city, or town and collecting information about them dude – n. informal.
计算一个国家、城市或城镇的人口数量并收集有关他们的信息的官方过程 老兄 – n. 非正式的。
a man — used especially by young people basket – n.
一个男人——尤其被年轻人使用 篮子 – n.
a container usually made by weaving together long thin pieces of material translate – v.
通常由长而薄的材料编织在一起制成的容器 翻译-v.
to change words from one language into another language rumor – n.
将单词从一种语言更改为另一种语言 谣言 – n.
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