纪录片《中国春节》 第11期 回乡（11）（在线收听）

Every New Year in the heartland of industrial China,

每年春节，在中国工业的核心地带

thousands upon thousands of motorcyclists braved the weather and take to the road

成千上万的骑摩托车的人不惧天气，踏上归途

determined to make it home to their families.

下定决心回到家乡与家人团聚

These workers are employed in the largest urban area in the world,

这些工人在世界上最大的城镇地区工作

Guangdong Province in southern China where many of them live the entire year.

中国南方的广东省，他们中很多人平时就在那里生活

The factories that lie on this huge river delta

在这一大三角洲的工厂里

employ migrants who have often come from villages hundreds of miles away.

里面的农民工多数是来自于几百上千公里外的村庄

The journey home is long, cold and exhausting.

这场旅程漫长，寒冷，让人筋疲力尽

Around the city of Zhaoqing

在肇庆市附近

Eight stations have been set up for the bikers to shake out there soaking ponchos and stop for food.

路上有为骑行者设置的8个站点，能让他们脱下浸透了的雨披，停下来吃些东西

We are Zhaoqing eighth station which one of several stops inland from Zhaoqing.

我们在肇庆第8站，是从肇庆出来的几个站点之一

It is a bit of a bottleneck here.

这就像是个瓶颈

More than 50,000 motorcycles will pass through on on their way home for the festivities.

超过5万的摩托大军，将在春节回家路上通过这里

I can't tell you, Kingy, how amazing it is to see so many bikes in one place,

小金，我没法告诉你这多么让人震惊，在一个地方同时看到这么多摩托

I'm tickled pink with excitement.

这让我开心得不得了

Yeah, Dave, bikes are an important form of transport in China,

对，戴夫，摩托是中国的一种重要运输形式

planes and trains can be too expensive for people

火车和飞机对于人们来说可能太昂贵了

so the humble bike is often the only way thousands of workers can get home.

所以简陋的摩托车就成了成千上万的农民工唯一的回家方式

There is a whole team of volunteers helping here.

有一整队的志愿者在这里帮忙

One of them is Danny Qiao

其中就有乔·丹尼

Danny, what exactly is happening?

丹尼，这到底是什么情况

In every station we provide hot water, ginger porridge.

在每个站点，我们提供热水，姜汤

Ginger porridge! Yeah. Perfect.

姜汤。对，很好

Motorcycle repairmen. All of them are free.

还有摩托车维修员。这些全是免费的

We ride motorcycles a lot, the amount of times we would have loved

我们经常骑摩托，我们有些时候非常希望

to be able to come in here for something to eat, something to drink,

能来到这里吃些东西，喝点什么

somebody to have a look at the bike.

找人帮我们看看摩托车