农民力求拯救墨西哥城的岛屿花园
📖 逐句对照翻译
Several large lakes once surrounded Mexico City.
墨西哥城周围曾经环绕着几个大型湖泊。
Those lakes have disappeared over the years.
那些湖泊多年来已经消失了。
But what is left of one of them is still important to local people who grow food.
但它们中之一所留下的东西对种植食物的当地人来说仍然很重要。
Cassandra Garduño works in her family’s chinampa.
卡桑德拉·加杜尼奥在自家的奇南帕田里劳作。
In Mexico, a chinampa is an island that was built up by the native Aztec people with fertile mud from the bottom of lakes that surrounded their capital.
在墨西哥，奇南帕是由土著阿兹特克人用其首都周围湖泊底部的肥沃淤泥堆建而成的岛屿。
One of the areas is called Xochimilco.
其中一个区域叫做霍奇米尔科。
The islands there are held together by a kind of willow tree planted around their edges.
那里的岛屿靠一种柳树维系在一起，这种柳树种植在岛屿的边缘。
Narrow waterways connect them.
狭窄的水道将它们连接起来。
Xochimilco has more than 1000 hectares of protected land owned by generations of local Chinamperos, as those who farm on the islands are known.
霍奇米尔科拥有超过1000公顷的受保护土地，这些土地为当地世代相传的奇南佩罗斯人（即在岛上耕作的人）所拥有。
Food grown on these islands has fed people for hundreds of years, but the chinampas are under threat from modern ways of life.
这些岛屿上种植的食物数百年来一直养育着人们，但奇南帕正受到现代生活方式的威胁。
Growing food on the chinampas does not make much money.
在奇南帕上种植粮食赚不了多少钱。
Many families are giving up the old ways to rent out or sell their land.
许多家庭放弃旧有方式，出租或出售他们的土地。
They have found it easier and more profitable to use the land for soccer fields and tourism.
他们发现将这块土地用于足球场和旅游业更容易，也更有利可图。
"People don't want to farm anymore, and people don't want to buy the products." said Garduño.
加尔杜尼奥说：“人们不再想务农，也不想买这些产品了。”
Some of those who stay, like Garduño, are working together to save and support the traditional use of the chinampas.
一些留下来的人，比如加杜尼奥，正共同努力保护和传承奇南帕的传统耕作方式。
Garduño remembers seeing her grandparents’ chinampas as a child.
加杜尼奥记得小时候见过祖父母的奇南帕。
Even then, she saw how the chinampas were suffering under pressure from modern life.
即便如此，她还是看到了奇南帕在現代生活壓力下所遭受的困境。
Some farmers had already given up.
一些农民已经放弃了。
Garduño bought land for her own chinampa in 2020.
2020年，加杜尼奥为自己的奇南帕购买了土地。
She grows several crops, including sunflowers, eggplant, and the Mexican marigold.
她种植了几种作物，包括向日葵、茄子和墨西哥万寿菊。
She is a member of the growing collective called Chinampa Refuge.
她是不断壮大的“奇南帕避难所”集体的一员。
The National Autonomous University of Mexico started the collective.
墨西哥国立自治大学创立了这个团体。
With other farmers in the group, she has asked other Chinamperos to preserve their land.
她与小组中的其他农民一起，呼吁其他奇南帕农民保护他们的土地。
They follow old ways of growing.
他们遵循古老的种植方式。
But they also are trying new commercial methods to compete with low-cost goods grown on big farms in Mexico.
但他们也在尝试新的商业方法，以与墨西哥大型农场种植的低成本商品竞争。
Their products include a special tag — Etiqueta Chinampera — that tells buyers the produce came from a chinampa.
他们的产品上有一个特殊的标签——Etiqueta Chinampera——告诉买家这些农产品来自奇南帕。
The tag also might bring attention to the area’s water quality or the chinampa's status as a biodiversity refuge.
该标签也可能引起人们对当地水质或奇南帕作为生物多样性庇护所地位的关注。
"Change comes with educating the new generations," said Garduño.
加尔杜尼奥说：“变革伴随着对新一代人的教育而来。”
"Talking about the origins and efforts to conserve and why it's important to do it."
谈论其起源、保护努力以及为何保护至关重要。
Luis Zambrano is a scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico who has worked in Xochimilco for many years.
路易斯·赞布拉诺是墨西哥国立自治大学的一名科学家，他已在霍奇米尔科工作多年。
He said the fields can mostly support themselves.
他说这些领域大多可以自给自足。
Fed and watered by the lake, they can produce three to five crops of vegetables a year without the need of chemicals or irrigation, he said.
他说，在湖边浇水和施肥后，他们一年可以生产三到五季蔬菜，无需使用化学品或灌溉。
Xochimilco’s natural resources help the city in several ways.
霍奇米尔科的自然资源在多个方面助力城市发展。
Many kinds of birds and fish live there.
许多种类的鸟和鱼生活在那里。
The system of waterways helps reduce the city's overall temperature, Zambrano said.
赞布拉诺表示，这一水系有助于降低城市的整体温度。
But now, on weekends, it is common to see more soccer players boating to islands than farmers tending their crops.
但如今，每逢周末，常见到更多踢足球的人划船前往岛屿，而非农民在田间劳作。
Over the past two or three years, Zambrano said, there has been a “massive increase” in the number of soccer fields on the islands.
赞布拉诺表示，过去两三年来，岛上足球场的数量“大幅增加”。
There are also food stands and boat trips for visitors.
这里还有为游客准备的小吃摊和乘船游览项目。
"If you do well (farming) you could earn $5,000 to $10,000 a year," Garduño said.
加尔杜尼奥说：“如果（务农）做得好，你每年可以赚到5000到1万美元。”
"In the tourist area you could have that within a couple of weekends."
在旅游区，几个周末之内就能实现。
Zambrano said the soccer fields damage the environment “because the amount of chemicals that are used, the amount of pollution that is generated is very, very large.
赞布拉诺表示，足球场破坏环境，“因为使用的化学物质数量、产生的污染数量非常非常大。”
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Carlos Vasquez, director of the Natural Protected Areas under Mexico City's Environmental Department, said his group is working on ways to limit the damage by the soccer fields.
墨西哥城环境局自然保护区的负责人卡洛斯·巴斯克斯表示，他们团队正在研究如何减少足球场造成的破坏。
Sixty-three-year-old Juan Ávalos and his brother Salvador Gonzalez Ávalos, who is 55, have been working on chinampas all their lives.
63岁的胡安·阿瓦洛斯和他55岁的弟弟萨尔瓦多·冈萨雷斯·阿瓦洛斯一生都在奇南帕上劳作。
Salvador said they want to pass their farming methods on to their grandchildren.
萨尔瓦多说，他们想把耕作方法传给孙辈。
"That's something we need to work on as grandparents," he said.
他说：“这是我们作为祖父母需要努力的地方。”
"That they integrate themselves with a taste for this earth."
他们将自己融入对这片土地的热爱之中。
I’m Jill Robbins.
我是吉尔·罗宾斯。
Mariana Martínez Barba and Julián Trejo Bax reported this story for the Associated Press.
玛丽安娜·马丁内斯·巴尔巴和朱利安·特雷霍·巴克斯为美联社报道了这则新闻。
Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English.
吉尔·罗宾斯为《学习英语》改编了它。
