What do you know about Mexico?Part 2
To continue the article of last week I am writing down 10 things that you probably did not know about Mexico that is interesting to share with you:
接着上个礼拜的文章,今天我写下10件你可能不知道的关于墨西哥的事情,希望你喜欢这些有趣的分享。
Mexico became an independent Country on September 16, 1810 from the ruling of Spain, just a little over 200 years ago
墨西哥于1810年9月16日摆脱西班牙的统治成为一个独立国家,距今有200多年。
May 5 every year there is a celebration among many Mexicans and Mexicans living in the United States. The reason of this celebration is that in 1862 France invaded Mexico over debt repayment issues and the Mexican army unexpectedly defeated the French near the city of Puebla on this date.
每年5月5日,墨西哥人民以及住在美国的墨西哥人会举行庆典活动。 这个庆典活动源于1862年5月5日,这一天墨西哥军队在普埃布拉附近出乎意料地击败了因债务偿还问题入侵的法国军队。
There are about 30 million Mexican Citizens living in the USA. This number is somewhat uncertain do to the fact that there are a lot of Mexican citizens living in USA without official documents.
大约有3千万墨西哥公民生活在美国,这个数目不是那么准确,因为有很多生活在美国的墨西哥公民并没有官方文件。
Each year Mexican immigrants in the US send remittances of between $20 and $25 billion USD back to family and friends in Mexico. This money is Mexico’s second largest validated source of foreign currency after oil money.
每年生活在美国的墨西哥移民将200到250亿美金寄回他们在墨西哥的家庭和朋友。这笔钱是继石油收入之后墨西哥第二大外汇来源。
More than 1,000, 000 USA citizens live in Mexico. Many of the people that retire from work decide to move to Mexico because of these reasons: Lower cost of living, warmer climate, a higher level of comfort and convenience in their lifestyle
超过1百万美国公民生活在墨西哥,他们中间大部分都是退休之后决定搬到墨西哥的,原因在于:更低的生活成本,更暖和的气候, 带给他们更舒适和更便利的生活方式。
Mexico City is the second largest metropolitan area in the world approaching nearly 30 million people. This would be like the entire population of the whole state of Texas or California in USA, more than Canada put together in one city
墨西哥城是世界上第二大的大都市,拥有大概3千万人口,这相当于把美国整个德克萨斯州或者加利福尼亚州,又或者比整个加拿大还要多的人口塞到一个城市里。
Mexican economy is growing and healthy (Not quite like most economies of the other world countries) and it is already in the prestigious club of GDP “Trillion USD Class” that has member of only 14 other countries ranking in number 12
墨西哥的经济正处于健康增长状态(不像世界上其它大部分国家一样),它已经加入了极具威望的 “万亿美元”GDP俱乐部, 只有14个国家是这个俱乐部成员,墨西哥排名第12。
Mexico is the 7th leading oil exporter in the world, and is one of three leading oil suppliers (along with Canada and Saudi Arabia) to the United States.
墨西哥是世界上第七大石油出口国,是美国的三大石油供应国之一( 另外两个分别是加拿大和沙特阿拉伯)。
Maybe the most important characteristic of the Mexican people is their festive spirit. It may be hard to believe that people from Mexico who have suffered so much along their history have such a strong celebration mood. Every single holiday, National, religious or local, has its celebration. The most famous of those celebrations are the Fiesta de” Cinco de Mayo” or May 5th, the “Novena” or nine days before Christmas and the celebration of the Independence Day on September 16 and even the Day of the Dead “Dia de los Muertos” is also an occasion for festivities and it is celebrated like no other country in the world
墨西哥人民最重要的特征可能就是他们的节日气氛了。 也许很难以置信,在经历了那么多历史磨难后,墨西哥人民还有这么好的庆祝心情。在每一个节日,无论是国庆、宗教还是本土节日,都有庆典活动。在这些庆典活动中最有名的有:”Cinco de Mayo” 5月5击溃法国的纪念日,“Novena” 圣诞节之前9天的庆祝,9月16日的独立日,甚至“Dia de los Muertos” 亡灵节也是一个盛大节日,庆祝方式和世界上其它国家完全不一样。
Religiously, socially and culturally diverse, Mexican people are always ready to demonstrate their good will by offering their help to whoever may need it
尽管有着多元化的宗教和社会文化,墨西哥人民是一个充满善意的民族,随时都准备着向需要帮助的人伸出双手。
I kind of feel excited to share these things with you because most of the time I only hear negative things about Mexico and there are so many interesting things to know about Mexico that I just will keep writing a little more in the following articles in the coming weeks.
能和你们分享这些我感到很激动,因为大多数时候我都只听到关于墨西哥的负面信息,其实有非常多关于墨西哥的有趣事情,我将在接下来几周和大家继续分享。
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