移民子女入学时间不确定
📖 逐句对照翻译
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·拉米雷斯担心交不到朋友，也听不懂用英语讲的课。
"I was nervous that people would ask me things and I wouldn't know how to answer," the Venezuelan teen says.
“我担心人们会问我一些问题，而我不知道怎么回答，”这名委内瑞拉少年说道。
"And I would be ashamed to answer in Spanish."
“而用西班牙语回答，我会感到羞愧。”
But it was not what she had expected.
但这并不是她所预料的。
Her teachers had translated words from their lessons into Spanish.
她的老师们把课文中的单词翻译成了西班牙语。
They gave out written instructions in Spanish.
他们分发了西班牙语的书面说明。
Some teachers even asked in Spanish if students had finished or had questions.
有些老师甚至用西班牙语问学生是否完成了任务或有问题。
"That made me feel better," says Alisson.
阿利松说：“那让我感觉好多了。”
The 13-year-old is among the 3,000 new students, mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, at the Aurora public school system.
这名13岁的学生是奥罗拉公立学校系统中3000名新生之一，这些新生大多来自委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚。
City officials and false claims
市政府官员与虚假声明
While teachers have been working hard to educate children of immigrants, outside the classrooms, city officials are not as welcoming.
尽管老师们一直在努力教育移民子女，但在教室之外，城市官员却并不那么友好。
They promised not to spend any money helping newcomers and tried to keep them from coming to the area.
他们承诺不花任何钱帮助新来者，并试图阻止他们来到这个地区。
One city official even claimed that criminals from Venezuela had occupied buildings in Aurora.
一位市政官员甚至声称，来自委内瑞拉的罪犯占领了奥罗拉的多栋建筑。
The police investigated and found it was not true.
警方调查后发现这不是真的。
But the false claim continued to spread.
但这个虚假的说法继续传播。
Maria Angel Torres is Alisson’s mother.
玛丽亚·安赫尔·托雷斯是阿利松的母亲。
The family had left Venezuela to escape lawlessness and violence.
这家人离开委内瑞拉，是为了逃离无法无天和暴力。
They left behind a food truck business after being attacked for not paying protection money.
他们因未交保护费而遭到袭击，留下了一辆快餐车生意。
The family then crossed the dangerous Darien Gap on foot to head north and seek asylum in the United States.
这家人随后徒步穿越危险的达连隘口，向北前往美国寻求庇护。
Torres said she did not believe criminals had taken over buildings.
托雷斯表示，她不相信罪犯已经占领了建筑物。
But she worried that bad reports about Venezuelans would affect her and her family.
但她担心关于委内瑞拉人的负面报道会影响到她和她的家人。
Some organizations and churches wanted to help her family.
一些组织和教会想要帮助她的家庭。
But others are deeply afraid.
但其他人却深感恐惧。
Torres told the Associated Press, “I don’t look like a threat. But people here act like they feel terrorized.”
托雷斯告诉美联社：“我看起来不像威胁。但这里的人表现得好像他们感到恐惧。”
Times have changed in Aurora
奥罗拉已经时过境迁了
Aurora is used to educating children of immigrants.
奥罗拉习惯于教育移民子女。
The 2020 census reported that more than a third of people in Aurora speak a language other than English at home.
2020年人口普查报告显示，奥罗拉超过三分之一的人在家中使用英语以外的语言。
Immigrants and refugees have been moving to Aurora because it is close to Denver and it has a lower cost of living.
移民和难民之所以搬到奥罗拉，是因为这里离丹佛近，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，该地区的一些学校并未准备好应对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只有一两个新生。
Now, teachers in some schools have as many as 10, or a third of their classroom.
现在，一些学校的老师所教的学生中，多达10人（占全班三分之一）有这种情况。
Translanguaging
超语实践
Marcella Garcia is the head of Aurora Hills Middle School.
玛塞拉·加西亚是奥罗拉山中学的校长。
She observed that some new students were not talking in classrooms where only English was spoken.
她注意到，在一些只说英语的课堂上，有些新生不开口说话。
So, the school system advised teachers to use a method called "translanguaging."
因此，学校体系建议教师采用一种名为“跨语言转换”的方法。
That means using Spanish or the home language at times to help new students understand English lessons and discussions happening around them.
这意味着有时使用西班牙语或母语来帮助新学生理解周围的英语课程和讨论。
The method has helped Alisson feel more at ease.
这个方法帮助阿利松感到更加自在。
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.
九月的一天，阿利松和朋友们用西班牙语互相交谈，而他们的老师则用英语对着全班讲解他正在教室前面展示的一幅画。
It was a drawing of an ancient Egyptian marketplace.
这是一幅古埃及集市的图画。
“What do you think this dude here is doing with the basket?” the teacher asked the class.
“你们觉得这里这个人拿着篮子在做什么？”老师问全班同学。
One girl who had been in Aurora schools longer than the rest translated for Alisson and the other new students.
其中一个在奥罗拉学校待的时间比其他人都长的女孩为阿利松和其他新来的学生做了翻译。
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，老师可能会阻止新生互相交谈。
Now, they permit students to help each other in any language they can.
现在，他们允许学生用任何他们会说的语言互相帮助。
So far, there appears to be little public criticism in the area against this method.
到目前为止，该地区似乎很少有公众批评反对这种方法。
It generally requires more work for teachers, who have to translate materials or their talks in real-time.
这通常需要教师付出更多努力，他们必须实时翻译材料或讲话。
Rumors of violence
暴力传闻
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.
最近，阿利松的母亲收到奥罗拉公立学校发来的消息，称有传言说该校及全州其他学校受到了炸弹威胁。
The schools said there was no truth to the rumors.
学校表示这些谣言毫无根据。
But that does not make Torres feel better.
但这并没有让托雷斯感觉好受些。
She said in Venezuela, the country is in trouble, but no one there would think of threatening children at school.
她说，委内瑞拉国内虽然困难重重，但那里没有人会想到去威胁学校里的孩子。
I’m Jill Robbins.
我是吉尔·罗宾斯。
Bianca Vázquez Toness reported this story for the Associated Press.
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.
吉尔·罗宾斯为《学习英语》改编了它。
