你对墨西哥了解多少 What do you know about Mexico?
Yesterday while I was having dinner with a couple of people from China they mentioned that they were reading every week my articles. They also said that they believed that it would be good that I write more about Mexico so that the readers may learn a little more about the country that I am from.
昨天我和几个中国人吃饭,他们说起每周都有看我的文章。 他们还说如果我写多一点关于墨西哥的东西应该挺好的,这样读者可以对我来自的那个国家有更多的了解。
There is so very little knowledge about Mexico from the Chinese citizens. Every time the subject comes up and they start mentioning things about Mexico or if I ask to them: What do you know about Mexico? 9 out of 10 times they give me pretty much the following answers:
很多中国人对墨西哥的了解确实是很少。 每次和中国朋友谈起墨西哥的时候,或者是当我问他们:你们知道墨西哥的一些什么东西呢?十次有九次他们会给出下面的答案:Mayas 玛雅
Soccer country 足球国度
Cool Goal Keeper Jorge Campos 酷门将豪尔赫·坎波斯
Drugs and dangerous Country 赌品和危险的国家
Country south of USA 美国南部的国家
Very rarely I get any other answers! So in this article and maybe a few others to come I am going to share some interesting information, facts, figures, pictures of this country and maybe even some information that is related to our ceramic industry.
我很少得到其它的答案! 所以在这篇文章以及可能接下来的文章里,我将会和大家分享一些关于这个国家的有趣的信息、数字、图片,可能也会有一些和我们行业相关的信息。
I will try in a few articles to do my best to describe what is Mexico? Where we come from? What we do, eat, costumes, family, tourism, etc.
我将尽我所能用几篇文章描述什么是墨西哥?我们来自哪里?我们做的事情、饮食、服饰、家庭和旅游等等。
GEOGRAPHY:
Mexico is located just south of the United States of America and just north of Central America (Guatemala and Belize) share a border with Mexico. It extends a little over 3000 kms from the tip of the northwest corner to the tip of the southeast corner.
Mexico also has the great advantage to have a huge coast and very easy access via sea to the Pacific Ocean and also the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico & the Caribbean Sea).
Mexico is constituted by 31 states (provinces) and a federal distric and has a population of over 110 million people.
地理:
墨西哥位于美国的南部,北部与中美洲北部(危地马拉和伯利兹)接壤。从西北角到东南角的顶点跨度有3000公里。
墨西哥拥有得天独厚的海岸线优势,可以很方便的进入到太平洋和大西洋(通过墨西哥湾和加勒比海)。
全国划分为31个州和1个联邦区(墨西哥城),人口超过1亿1千万。
SOME INTERESTING FACTS
一些有趣的资料
Did you know that Mexico is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world?
你知道墨西哥是世界上讲西班牙语人口最多的国家吗?
As a nation, Mexico is ethnically and culturally diverse, and current estimates show that about 60% of the population is mestizo (mixed American Indian Native and White predominantly from Spain), 30% is American Indian native and the rest of the population is white, a majority being from Spain, although the country also has an large population of people of German, Italian, French, Portuguese, British and Irish origin, amongst others.
墨西哥是一个多民族和多文化的国家,目前估计有60%的人口是混血种人(美洲印第安人土著和来自西班牙的白种人),印第安人后裔占30%,剩下的是一小部分来自西班牙的白种人。当然了,也有不少人口来自德国、意大利、法国、葡萄牙、英国和爱尔兰等其他国家。
And Mexico is along with Egypt the two most important and pretty much only countries that built pyramids thousands of years ago!
墨西哥和埃及是在2000年前建造金字塔的两个最重要的国家,也可能是仅有的两个国家。
Did you know that current estimates show that the World Bank ranks Mexico 12th in the world in terms of Gross Domestic product or the 12th most important economy in the world?
你知道吗,根据世界银行最新统计的世界GDP排名,墨西哥位列12,或者说是世界经济重要性排名12。
These and many other interesting things describe Mexico in a better way and not just soccer, mayas and drug problems.
这些还有更多有趣事情能够更好的说明墨西哥,而不只是足球、玛雅和毒品。
I will keep sharing with you many more things about this beautiful country that in many ways is similar to China.
我将会和大家分享更多关于这个美丽国度的事情,其实,很多方面它和中国很像。
翻译:耿海波
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