留美老师带你每日说英文 第1100期:哥伦比亚接收移民

 台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是：

More than a million Venezuelans have moved to Colombia in recent years. And in an era of record setting migration¹, when borders seem to be getting thicker, harder to cross, Colombia is doing something that you don't see very often. It's opening its doors and it's letting people in.
近几年已经有超过百万名委内瑞拉人移民到哥伦比亚了。现在是一个移民数量创新高的时代，各国国境的高墙似乎越变越厚、越来越难跨越，但哥伦比亚却罕见地反其道而行，敞开其国门，让他国人民移入。

学习重点：

1.era 时代；年代
era (n.) 时代；年代

2.set a record 创纪录
set a record (phr.) 创纪录

3.migration 迁移
migration (n.) 迁移
refugee (n.) 难民；避难者；逃亡者

4.border 边界；国界
border (n.) 边界；国界

 

1 migration   

n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙

参考例句：

• Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
• He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。