The capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan, has seen big changes in its high-end housing market. Peace, it seems, is driving up property prices. 

阿富汗首都喀布尔的高端住宅市场发生了巨大变化。和平似乎正在推高房地产价格。 

Omidullah, a real estate agent, is selling a white-and-gold house with nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms in the Afghan capital. The house is on the market for $450,000, a surprising number in a country where more than half of the population depends on humanitarian aid to survive. 

房地产经纪人奥米杜拉正在阿富汗首都出售一栋拥有九间卧室和九间浴室的白色和金色房屋。这所房子的市场售价为 45 万美元，对于一个一半以上人口依靠人道主义援助生存的国家来说，这个数字令人惊讶。 

Most Afghans do not have bank accounts. And it is rare to borrow money from banks to buy property. Yet the offers are coming in.

大多数阿富汗人没有银行账户。从银行借钱购买房产的情况也很少见。然而优惠仍在到来。 

“It’s a myth that Afghans don’t have money,” Omidullah said. “We have very big businessmen who have big businesses abroad. There are houses here worth millions of dollars.” 

“阿富汗人没有钱是一个神话，”奥米杜拉说。“我们有非常大的商人，他们在国外拥有大生意。这里的房子价值数百万美元。

”People who spent years living and working abroad are returning home. They are drawn by the country’s much-improved security and stability after years of war and destruction. Those returning include Afghans escaping deportation campaigns in Iran and Pakistan. 

在国外生活和工作多年的人们正在回国。他们被该国在经历多年战争和破坏后大大改善的安全和稳定所吸引。返回的人包括逃离伊朗和巴基斯坦驱逐行动的阿富汗人。 

Banks rarely have enough money for lending. So, Afghans buy properties with their own money or employ what is called “geerawi.” It is when someone provides a fixed amount to a property owner in return for living in his place. And the person stays until the property owner returns the money. 

银行很少有足够的资金来放贷。因此，阿富汗人用自己的钱购买房产或雇用所谓的“geerawi”。这是指有人向业主提供固定金额，以换取在他的地方居住。这个人会一直留下来，直到业主归还钱为止。 

Before the Taliban takeover, people were afraid to invest in Kabul, said another real estate agent, Ghulam Mohammed Haqdoost. 

另一位房地产经纪人古拉姆·穆罕默德·哈克杜斯特 (Ghulam Mohammed Haqdoost) 表示，在塔利班接管之前，人们不敢在喀布尔投资。

But the Taliban have created better conditions for the property market. The city is less violent since the Taliban changed from an insurgency to a government. Foreign forces left the country, although armored vehicles, checkpoints and military buildings remain common sights. 

但塔利班为房地产市场创造了更好的条件。自从塔利班从叛乱分子转变为政府以来，这座城市的暴力事件有所减少。尽管装甲车、检查站和军事建筑仍然常见，但外国军队已撤离该国。

The Taliban have promised to end corruption and establish order. That means no more dealing with militia chiefs or paying officials for land purchases or building projects. 

塔利班承诺结束腐败并建立秩序。这意味着不再需要与民兵首领打交道，也不再需要向官员支付土地购买或建筑项目的费用。

James Chatters is a professor of Earth, Environment and Society at Canada’s McMaster University. He helped lead the research. Chatters said in a statement that centering on mammoths “helps explain how Clovis people could spread throughout North America and into South America in just a few hundred years.” 

詹姆斯·查特斯 (James Chatters) 是加拿大麦克马斯特大学地球、环境与社会教授。他帮助领导了这项研究。查特斯在一份声明中表示，以猛犸象为中心“有助于解释克洛维斯人如何在短短几百年内传播到整个北美并进入南美洲。” 

The scientists estimated the woman mostly ate meat from a group of animals called megafauna, the largest creatures that existed at the time. The study showed megafauna made up about 96 percent of her diet, with mammoth accounting for about 40 percent of the total. 

科学家估计，这名妇女主要吃的是一种叫做巨型动物的动物的肉，这是当时存在的最大的生物。研究显示，巨型动物约占她饮食的 96%，其中猛犸象约占总量的 40%。 

Chatters said one mammoth could support “a dependent community of children, care-giving women, and less mobile elders for days or even weeks while the hunters sought their next kill." Mammoths stood to about four meters tall at the shoulder and weighed as much as 11 tons.

查特斯说，一头猛犸象可以支撑“一个由儿童、照顾妇女和行动不便的老人组成的依赖社区数天甚至数周，而猎人则寻找下一次猎物。”猛犸象的肩高约四米，体重也同样重。为11吨。 

Chatters said the Clovis people were known to be highly skilled hunters with a 10,000-year history of hunting megafauna over wide areas of territory. He added that the great dependence of the Clovis on megafauna likely led to the pressures that later caused the extinction of large ice age animals. 

查特斯说，克洛维斯人以狩猎技术高超而闻名，拥有一万年在大片领土上捕猎巨型动物的历史。他补充说，克洛维斯人对巨型动物的高度依赖可能导致了后来导致大型冰河时期动物灭绝的压力。 

Chatters noted the latest finding supports past studies that provided "indirect evidence” that Clovis people mainly depended on mammoths and other large animals for food. This evidence included examinations of different artifacts – such as stone tools or the ancient remains of large animals, he said. 

查特斯指出，最新发现支持了过去的研究，这些研究提供了克洛维斯人主要依赖猛犸象和其他大型动物作为食物的“间接证据”。他说，这些证据包括对不同文物的检查，例如石器或大型动物的古代遗骸。。 

Ben Potter was also a co-writer of the study. He is an archeologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Potter told Reuters, "These results also help us understand megafauna extinctions at the end of the last Ice Age.” He added the findings suggest that humans may have played a more important part in the extinctions than is sometimes thought. 

本·波特也是该研究的合著者。他是阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的考古学家。波特告诉路透社，“这些结果也有助于我们了解上一个冰河时代末期巨型动物的灭绝情况。” 他补充说，研究结果表明，人类在物种灭绝中所扮演的角色可能比有时想象的更重要。 

A new study finds that the first humans to live in North America depended heavily on mammoths and other large animals for food. 

一项新的研究发现，最早生活在北美的人类严重依赖猛犸象和其他大型动物作为食物。 

The finding is based on examinations of the diet of a woman who lived about 13,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. She belonged to a culture called the Clovis. They were among the first Native Americans to arrive on the continent. 

这一发现是基于对一位生活在大约 13,000 年前最后一个冰河时期的女性的饮食检查得出的。她属于一种叫做克洛维斯的文化。他们是第一批到达非洲大陆的美洲原住民之一。 

The woman was still breast-feeding her 18-month-old son when he died. The boy’s remains were discovered back in 1968 in an ancient burial ground in the western U.S. state of Montana. Scientists examined his bones to learn more about his mother’s diet. 

当她18个月大的儿子去世时，这名妇女仍在哺乳。1968 年，男孩的遗体在美国西部蒙大拿州的一个古老墓地中被发现。科学家们检查了他的骨头，以更多地了解他母亲的饮食。 

They found that the woman ate mostly meat from mammoths and other very large animals. The finding supports scientific theories that Clovis people specialized in hunting large animals instead of seeking plants or small animals to eat. 

他们发现该女子主要吃猛犸象和其他大型动物的肉。这一发现支持了克洛维斯人专门狩猎大型动物而不是寻找植物或小动物作为食物的科学理论。 

At the time the Clovis people lived, large animals like mammoths lived in areas covering the Americas, as well as parts of northern Asia. The researchers noted that mammoths traveled very long distances during this period. This made them a target for migrating humans seeking protein-rich foods to eat. 

在克洛维斯人生活的时代，猛犸象等大型动物生活在美洲以及北亚部分地区。研究人员指出，猛犸象在此期间迁移了很长的距离。这使它们成为寻求富含蛋白质食物的迁徙人类的目标。 

The team examined isotope data collected from the boy’s bones to estimate the Clovis woman’s dietary intake. An isotope is a kind of atom that has a different atomic weight than similar atoms, but the same chemical structure. The isotope experiments centered on the elements carbon and nitrogen. 

研究小组检查了从男孩骨骼中收集的同位素数据，以估计克洛维斯妇女的饮食摄入量。同位素是一种原子量与相似原子不同但化学结构相同的原子。同位素实验以碳和氮元素为中心。 

Mat Wooller is a professor and director of the Alaska Stable Isotope center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was a co-writer of the study describing the research in the publication Science Advances. 

马特·伍勒 (Mat Wooller) 是阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校阿拉斯加稳定同位素中心的教授兼主任。他是该研究的合著者，该研究在《科学进展》杂志上描述了该研究。 

Wooller told Reuters news agency isotope examinations can provide “a chemical fingerprint” of parts of an ancient human’s diet. "We are all made of elements, like carbon and nitrogen, and so is our food," he said.

伍勒告诉路透社，同位素检查可以提供古代人类饮食部分的“化学指纹”。“我们都是由碳和氮等元素组成的，我们的食物也是如此，”他说。 

“If you set a priority for yourself ... you can make the time,” Deleveaux said. 

“如果你为自己设定优先事项……你就能腾出时间，”德莱沃说。 

With one breathing exercise, she breaths in through one nostril and then out through the other. She uses a thumb or forefinger to hold one nostril closed at a time. 

在一次呼吸练习中，她通过一个鼻孔吸气，然后通过另一个鼻孔呼气。她用拇指或食指一次闭合一个鼻孔。 

“It relaxes my mind. It makes my mind so full of ease. It brings you back to the present moment,” she added. 

“它让我的心情放松。这让我的心里充满了轻松。它会让你回到当下，”她补充道。 

To get ahead of anxiety before starting her workday, sales representative Lindsay Carlisle of Michigan does breathing exercises with her seven-year-old daughter during their drive to school. They breathe in for seven counts, hold their breath for five, and then breathe out for seven counts. They repeat this several times. 

为了在开始工作日之前消除焦虑，密歇根州的销售代表 Lindsay Carlisle 在开车去学校的路上与她 7 岁的女儿一起进行呼吸练习。他们吸气数七下，屏住呼吸五下，然后呼气七下。他们重复了几次。 

“Throughout that process, my shoulders start to drop on their own, and it really is calming,” Carlisle said. 

“在整个过程中，我的肩膀开始自行下垂，这真的很平静，”卡莱尔说。

Suze Yalof Schwartz was an overworked magazine editor when her mother-in-law taught her a three-minute meditation method. 

苏兹·亚洛夫·施瓦茨 (Suze Yalof Schwartz) 是一名过度劳累的杂志编辑，她的婆婆教她三分钟冥想方法。 

Yalof Schwartz says it changed her life. She left her career and founded Unplug Meditation, a Santa Monica, California, company with a meditation studio, an app, and programs for corporate customers. 

亚洛夫·施瓦茨说这改变了她的生活。她放弃了自己的职业生涯，创立了 Unplug Meditation，这是一家位于加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡的公司，拥有冥想工作室、应用程序和面向企业客户的项目。 

“When we slow down our breath, we send a signal to our brain that everything’s OK, even when it’s not,” she said.

“当我们放慢呼吸时，我们会向大脑发出一个信号，表明一切都很好，即使情况并非如此，”她说。 

Another 16-second breathing exercise is called box breathing. You breathe in for four counts, hold for four, breathe out for four counts and hold for another four. Yalof Schwartz has taught it to people in stressful jobs including firefighters, police and doctors.

另一种 16 秒呼吸练习称为箱式呼吸。吸气数四下，屏住四下，呼气四下，再屏住四下。亚洛夫·施瓦茨（Yalof Schwartz）向消防员、警察和医生等从事高压力工作的人传授了这一方法。 

“It is the best thing that you can do at work before you have a meeting, before you send out an email that you wish you didn’t send, before you have a difficult conversation, because it just calms you down, gets rid of your negative energy,” she said. 

“这是你在工作中可以做的最好的事情，在你开会之前，在你发送一封你希望没有发送的电子邮件之前，在你进行一场艰难的谈话之前，因为它只会让你平静下来，摆脱困境 你的负能量，”她说。 

Employers such as Coca-Cola, Mattel and Netflix have used Unplug Meditation to teach breathing or meditation.

可口可乐、美泰和 Netflix 等雇主已使用 Unplug Meditation 来教授呼吸或冥想。 

It is not always easy for workers to find space for deep breathing exercises. For example, salespeople often work alongside their customers. Yalof Schwartz suggests doing breathing exercises when making a sale or organizing items. 

对于工人来说，找到进行深呼吸练习的空间并不总是那么容易。例如，销售人员经常与客户一起工作。亚洛夫·施瓦茨建议在销售或整理物品时进行呼吸练习。 

Carlisle, the sales representative, sets a timer on her phone telling her to breathe deeply. She also keeps a note near her computer that simply says “Breathe.” 

销售代表卡莱尔在手机上设置了一个计时器，告诉她深呼吸。她还在电脑旁边放了一张纸条，上面写着“呼吸”。 

“The anxiety is always going to be there,” Carlisle said. “But at least I know I have one small tool. ... It sounds so simple and silly, but it works.” 

“焦虑总是存在的，”卡莱尔说。“但至少我知道我有一个小工具。......这听起来很简单又愚蠢，但它确实有效。” 

At Myosin Marketing in Austin, Texas, the group employee meeting begins with an uncommon activity for a workplace. The members gather on Zoom and the head of the company, Sean Clayton, leads them through a deep-breathing exercise. 

在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市的 Myosin Marketing，集团员工会议以一项在工作场所中不常见的活动开始。成员们聚集在 Zoom 上，公司负责人肖恩·克莱顿 (Sean Clayton) 带领他们进行深呼吸练习。 

Clayton says the activity helps his employees relax and to be willing to take creative risks. 

克莱顿说，这项活动可以帮助他的员工放松并愿意承担创造性的风险。 

“At first they thought it was really weird,” he said, adding that most people turned off their cameras. But, after a couple of weeks, there was a change. The employees said the deep breathing felt good. 

“一开始他们觉得这真的很奇怪，”他说，并补充说大多数人都关掉了相机。但是，几周后，情况发生了变化。员工们表示，深呼吸的感觉很好。

Studies show that deep breathing can be an effective way to reduce tension, or stress, at work. But people may not think about their breathing while on the job. 

研究表明，深呼吸是减轻工作紧张或压力的有效方法。但人们在工作时可能不会考虑自己的呼吸。 

Workers who sit at computers for long periods tend to take shallow breaths as their shoulders slowly rise. Workers who spend the day on their feet in retail or health care may be too busy to center their attention on breathing. 

长时间坐在电脑前的员工往往会在肩膀慢慢抬起时呼吸浅。零售业或医疗保健行业的工人可能太忙，无法将注意力集中在呼吸上。 

But there is good reason to stop what you are doing and take deep breaths, research suggests. 

但研究表明，有充分的理由停止你正在做的事情并深呼吸。 

Long-lasting stress can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. Experts at the American Heart Association say it can be as harmful as secondhand smoke. Research suggests deep-breathing exercises can lower a person’s blood pressure and reduce anxiety.

长期的压力会增加患心脏病和中风的风险。美国心脏协会的专家表示，它与二手烟一样有害。研究表明深呼吸练习可以降低人的血压并减少焦虑。

There are many benefits to deep breathing. For starters, it is free. It can be done anywhere. And unlike a 30-minute meditation practice, most deep breathing exercises do not take much time.

深呼吸有很多好处。对于初学者来说，它是免费的。它可以在任何地方完成。与 30 分钟的冥想练习不同，大多数深呼吸练习不需要太多时间。

Also, it gives you something to focus on – your breathing. Experts say that this can help to calm racing thoughts. 

此外，它还可以让您专注于呼吸。专家表示，这有助于平息急躁的思绪。

Focusing on breathing for one to five minutes can help you clear your mind and let you “get back to focusing on the one thing you want to accomplish,” said Glenn Levine. He is a heart and blood system doctor and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. 

格伦·莱文说，专注于呼吸一到五分钟可以帮助你理清思绪，让你“重新专注于你想要完成的一件事”。他是德克萨斯州休斯顿贝勒医学院的心脏和血液系统医生兼教授。 

A good way to do deep breathing exercises is outside, Levine said. However, if that is not possible, doing them at a desk works.

莱文说，在户外进行深呼吸练习的一个好方法。然而，如果不可能的话，在办公桌上做也是可行的。 

“Instead of focusing on the screen or work, just focus on your breathing. If possible,” Levine said, “close your eyes.” 

“不要专注于屏幕或工作，只需专注于呼吸。如果可能的话，”莱文说，“闭上眼睛。” 

Even very busy people can find time for daily breathing exercises. 即使非常忙碌的人也可以抽出时间进行日常呼吸练习。 

Lisa Marie Deleveaux is a marketing professional and mother of five. She lost her job several months ago and has struggled to find a new one. Deleveaux wakes early most mornings before her children, to do breathing exercises. 

丽莎·玛丽·德莱沃 (Lisa Marie Deleveaux) 是一名营销专业人士，也是五个孩子的母亲。她几个月前失业了，一直在努力寻找新工作。大多数早晨，德莱沃都会比孩子们早起床，进行呼吸练习。

The world's first wooden satellite was launched into space on Tuesday, soaring its way towards the International Space Station. Developed by a team at Kyoto University, the palm-sized box, named LignoSat was crafted from a magnolia tree. 

世界上第一颗木质外壳的卫星于本周二发射升空，飞向了国际空间站。这颗人造卫星由京都大学的一个团队研发，是一个只有手掌大小的盒子，被叫做 “木质卫星（LignoSat）”，是用一棵木兰属的乔木制成。 

It will spend six months in orbit 400km above the Earth, where temperatures fluctuate from -100C to 100C, testing to see if wood could be a feasible space-grade material. Researchers say with no water or oxygen to rot or inflame it, wood is much more durable in space than it is on Earth.

这颗人造卫星将在距地表 400 公里的轨道上运行六个月，从而检测木材是否是一种可行的太空材料，因为那里的温度在零下 100 摄氏度到 100 摄氏度之间波动。研究人员说，由于太空中没有水或氧气来使其腐烂或燃烧，木材在太空中远比在地球上更加坚固耐用。 

And when the mission is over, the decommissioned satellite will burn up on its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. With no screws or glue, it will emit far fewer pollutants than ordinary metal satellites. Scientists hope it's the first step in a 50-year plan to build timber houses on the Moon and Mars.

本次任务结束后，退役的卫星将在重返地球大气层时烧尽。由于没有使用任何螺丝或胶水，它将比普通的金属人造卫星排放的污染物更少。科学家们希望这次实验能够成为一项在月球和火星上建造木质房屋的 50 年计划的第一步。 

词汇表

soaring 向高处飞
magnolia 木兰属的
fluctuate 波动，起伏不定
feasible 可行的
rot 使…腐烂
inflame 使…燃烧
decommissioned 退役的
pollutants 污染物
timber 木材

Have you ever bumped into someone and their name just doesn't come to you? Or, you walk into a room and suddenly can't recall why you're there? Being forgetful can be really annoying, sometimes even embarrassing. But what if I told you that there are actually good reasons for our memories fading away? 

您是否曾经遇到过某人，但您却想不起他的名字？或者，您走进一个房间，突然想不起自己为什么在那里？健忘真的很烦人，有时甚至令人尴尬。但如果我告诉你，我们的记忆消失实际上有充分的理由呢？ 

In a BBC interview, neuroscientist Charan Ranganath uses a hoarding analogy. We don't tend to store everything we've ever owned in our house. Similarly, we don't need to store all our memories either. He says, "If we didn't forget anything, we'd be hoarding memories, and you'd never be able to find what you want, when you want it." For example, you don't need to remember the hotel number weeks after you've left the hotel or memorise all the faces you pass on the street. 

在接受英国广播公司 (BBC) 采访时，神经科学家查兰·兰加纳特 (Charan Ranganath) 使用了囤积的比喻。我们不倾向于将我们曾经拥有的所有东西都存放在家里。同样，我们也不需要存储所有的记忆。他说：“如果我们不忘记任何事情，我们就会囤积记忆，而当你想要的时候，你永远无法找到你想要的东西。” 例如，您不需要在离开酒店几周后记住酒店号码或记住您在街上经过的所有面孔。 

We also need to be able to forget things in order to update our memories with new information. Imagine you get used to the same school timetable or work schedule for a whole year, but the next year, you have new procedures or routines. Your brain needs to be flexible and forget irrelevant details in order to handle the new information. Or, maybe it's been 10 years since you last saw a distant relative. It's likely their face has changed a lot since then, so that memory needs to be updated as well. 

我们还需要能够忘记事情，以便用新信息更新我们的记忆。想象一下，您一整年都习惯了相同的学校时间表或工作时间表，但明年，您就有了新的程序或惯例。你的大脑需要灵活并忘记不相关的细节才能处理新信息。或者，也许你已经有十年没有见到远房亲戚了。从那以后他们的脸很可能发生了很大的变化，所以记忆也需要更新。 

And, if you've ever been convinced that you know a word, but it just doesn't pop into your head, you're not alone. This tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon may suggest that some things are not fully forgotten, just currently inaccessible. Those with a higher level of knowledge are more affected by this, according to studies such as 'Impact of knowledge and age on tip-of-the-tongue rates', because their brains have to sort through more information to find the word. 

而且，如果您曾经确信自己认识一个单词，但它只是没有出现在您的脑海中，那么您并不孤单。这种舌尖现象可能表明有些事情并没有完全被遗忘，只是目前无法访问。根据“知识和年龄对舌尖率的影响”等研究，那些知识水平较高的人受此影响更大，因为他们的大脑必须整理更多信息才能找到单词。 

Memories are sometimes compared to a cliff: once they have crumbled, they are lost and cannot be retrieved. However, in their article 'Forgetfulness: Why your mind going blank can be a benefit', Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto write that forgetting, it seems, is "less like a cliff slowly collapsing into the sea, and more like a house deep in the woods that becomes harder and harder to find". 

记忆有时被比作悬崖：一旦崩塌，它们就会消失，无法挽回。然而，桑杰·萨尔马（Sanjay Sarma）和卢克·约昆托（Luke Yoquinto）在他们的文章《健忘：为什么你的大脑一片空白会带来好处》中写道，遗忘似乎“不像是慢慢塌陷到大海中的悬崖，而更像是一座深藏在大海中的房子”。树林变得越来越难找到”。 

词汇表

come to (someone) 突然被…想起、记起
recall 回想起，记起
forgetful 健忘的
fade away 渐渐消失
neuroscientist 神经科学家
hoard 囤积，贮藏
store 保存，储存
memorise 记住，记忆
update 更新
flexible 灵活的，弹性的
pop into 出现
tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon 话到嘴边却想不起来的现象
sort through 筛选，整理
retrieve 重新取回，找回
go blank （想法）一片空白

While the older generation enjoys island life, their children have moved to the city after going there to attend school. 

老一辈人享受海岛生活，而他们的孩子则在上学后搬到了城市。 

This has left an aging population. The island's youngest residents are in their 50s. Conservation experts worry about the island's future. No one is permitted to move to the island from the city. In 2001, the government said the island was safe from changes until changes are required for development. 

这导致了人口老龄化。岛上最年轻的居民只有50多岁。保护专家担心该岛的未来。任何人都不允许从城市搬到岛上。2001年，政府表示，在开发需要改变之前，该岛不会受到任何改变。 

At the height of its popularity, almost 4,000 people lived on the island. They worked in granite quarries and on farms. But the largest quarry closed in 1970. Then, many people moved to the city where a policy to develop industry grew the economy and covered a once-struggling nation in new developments, roads and factories. 

在其鼎盛时期，岛上居住着近 4,000 人。他们在花岗岩采石场和农场工作。但最大的采石场于 1970 年关闭。随后，许多人搬到了这座城市，那里的工业发展政策促进了经济增长，并为这个曾经陷入困境的国家带来了新的发展、道路和工厂。

Each June for the past nine years, Singaporean officials have celebrated "Ubin Day." The goal is to help people value and love the island's heritage and ecosystem, the National Parks Board says on its website.

过去九年来，每年六月，新加坡官员都会庆祝“乌敏日”。国家公园委员会在其网站上表示，其目标是帮助人们重视和热爱该岛的遗产和生态系统。 

Games and enrichment booths mark the celebration. So do plans for the island's future. 

游戏和丰富摊位标志着庆祝活动。该岛的未来计划也是如此。 

In 1991, the government stopped a plan to extend the subway to the island. Now there are talks about saving the island for future generations. But there will come a day when no one will live there anymore.

1991年，政府叫停了将地铁延伸到岛上的计划。现在正在讨论为子孙后代拯救这个岛屿。但有一天，那里将不再有人居住。 

"The old people have died off, one by one…,” said Chu. He told Reuters that young people do not want to stay. 

“老人已经一一去世了……”楚说。他告诉路透社，年轻人不想留下来。 

Koh said she hoped officials would let more people stay in guesthouses. "Not the high-end ones but the kampung-type," she added, using the Malay term for a village. 

Koh说，她希望官员能让更多人入住宾馆。“不是高端的，而是甘榜式的，”她补充道，用马来语来形容村庄。

Lim Csye See is a 69-year-old who runs a bicycle rental shop. Lim said he did not want the island to become like Sentosa, Singapore’s theme park island which is crowded with costly hotels and homes.

Lim Csye See 是一位 69 岁的老人，经营一家自行车租赁店。林说，他不希望该岛变得像新加坡的主题公园岛圣淘沙那样，那里挤满了昂贵的酒店和住宅。 

"If this place becomes like Sentosa, then that's the end," said Lim. 

“如果这个地方变得像圣淘沙一样，那就结束了，”林说。 

A short boat ride from the wealthy city-state of Singapore is something rare – a small, quiet island. 

距离富裕的城邦新加坡只有很短的船程，这是一个罕见的小而安静的岛屿。 

People living on Pulau Ubin still talk about the arrival of solar power 11 years ago. They call it a “miracle.” 

生活在乌敏岛上的人们至今仍谈论着十一年前太阳能的到来。他们称之为“奇迹”。

Although the electricity was expensive, Chu Yok Choon said he loved the convenience. He could just press a button, and a pump would send water to his home from the village well. Until 2013, Chu had to carry water from the well by hand and use generators to provide electricity. 

尽管电费昂贵，但朱育春说他喜欢这种便利。他只需按一下按钮，水泵就会从村里的井里把水送到他家。直到2013年，朱先生还得用手从井里打水，并用发电机提供电力。 

Chu is one of 30 people living on Pulau Ubin. The island measures only 10 square kilometers. He spoke to Reuters recently and compared life on the island to life in Singapore, or as he calls it, the mainland. 

Chu是居住在乌敏岛的30人之一。该岛面积只有10平方公里。他最近接受路透社采访，并将岛上的生活与新加坡（或者他所说的大陆）的生活进行了比较。 

"Life on the mainland doesn't feel natural," said the 79-year-old. "Life here is quieter." 

“大陆的生活感觉不太自然，”这位 79 岁的老人说。“这里的生活比较安静。

”Pulau Ubin includes forest areas and wetlands. The wetlands were once under threat from development until the plans were postponed. 

乌敏岛包括森林地区和湿地。湿地一度受到开发的威胁，直到计划被推迟。 

The island offers visitors walks along thick greenery and lakes that were formed from rock quarries. They can ride bicycles on roads free of vehicles and eat seafood meals by the water's edge. 

岛上的游客可以沿着茂密的绿色植物和采石场形成的湖泊散步。他们可以在没有车辆的道路上骑自行车，在水边吃海鲜大餐。 

For those living in Singapore, the island is an escape. It can be reached in about 10 minutes by ferry. But for those who live on the island, those ferry rides can be inconvenient. Trips to the mainland to buy food and other necessities can be delayed. 

对于居住在新加坡的人来说，这座岛屿是一个逃离喧嚣的地方。乘坐渡轮约10分钟即可到达。但对于住在岛上的人来说，乘坐渡轮可能会很不方便。前往大陆购买食物和其他必需品的行程可能会被推迟。 

Also, ferries can be costly. For visits to the city, Chu said he would have to wait until the ferry filled up with 12 passengers. Each person pays $3. This cost is similar to Singapore's public transportation. But if he is in a hurry, he would have to pay $36 for the whole boat. 

此外，渡轮也可能很贵。朱说，要前往这座城市，他必须等到渡轮载满 12 名乘客。每人支付3美元。这个费用与新加坡的公共交通类似。但如果他赶时间，他就得为整艘船支付 36 美元。

Still, the residents stay. They say they are enjoying a life different from the busy, stressful conditions in the city. 

尽管如此，居民还是留下来了。他们说，他们正在享受一种不同于城市忙碌、压力的生活。 

"The energy is so fantastic," said 54-year-old Koh Bee Choo. She lives in a house on top of wooden supports that extends out over the water. 

“能量真是太棒了，”54 岁的 Koh Bee Choo 说道。她住在一所房子里，房子的顶部有木支撑，延伸到水面上。

"I go for morning walks and I absorb the energy in the jungle," added Koh. She lived in Singapore for nearly five years but returned to the island to run a bicycle rental shop. 

“我早上去散步，吸收丛林中的能量，”Koh 补充道。她在新加坡生活了近五年，然后回到岛上经营一家自行车租赁店。 

Sampayo, too, communicates her worldview through her textiles. Though she does not paint, she embroiders, and each thread tells a tale from home. 

Sampayo 也通过纺织品传达她的世界观。虽然她不画画，但她会刺绣，每一根线都讲述着一个家乡的故事。 

“Each plant has a spirit,” said the healer, pointing to the leaves embroidered in the cloth. “And medicinal plants come from God.” 

“每种植物都有灵魂，”治疗师指着布上绣的叶子说道。“而药用植物来自上帝。

” The plants painted by Silvano also bear meaning. One of them represents pure love. Another represents a wise man. And another, a serpent. 

西尔瓦诺画的植物也具有意义。其中之一代表纯洁的爱情。另一个代表智者。还有一条，一条蛇。

“The anaconda is special for us,” Silvano said. “It’s our protector, like a god that cares for us and provides food and water.” 

“水蚺对我们来说很特别，”西尔瓦诺说。“它是我们的保护者，就像神一样关心我们并提供食物和水。

” In ancient times, she said, her people believed that the sun was their father, and the anacondas were their guardians. Colonization brought Catholicism and their worldview changed. 

她说，在远古时代，她的人民相信太阳是他们的父亲，而水蟒是他们的守护者。殖民带来了天主教，他们的世界观也发生了变化。 

“Nowadays we have different religions...but we respect our other beliefs too,” Silvano said. 

“现在我们有不同的宗教......但我们也尊重我们的其他信仰，”西尔瓦诺说。

For many years, after her father took her to Lima hoping for a better future, she thought of her time in the jungle. Life in Paoyhan was not easy, but she learned to be strong at a young age. 

多年来，当她的父亲带她去利马希望有更美好的未来时，她一直想起自己在丛林中的时光。宝涵的生活并不好过，但她从小就学会了坚强。

“When we encounter difficult times, we overcome them with our therapy: designing, painting, singing,” Silvano said. “We have a song that is melodic and heals our soul, and another one that is inspiring and brings us joy.” 

“当我们遇到困难时，我们会通过设计、绘画、唱歌等疗法来克服它们，”西尔瓦诺说。“我们有一首歌旋律优美，治愈我们的灵魂，另一首歌鼓舞人心，给我们带来欢乐。

” Few Shipibo girls are told to study or make a living of their own, Silvano said. Instead, they are taught to wait for a husband. And once married, they are taught to deal with problems, difficulties, or bad treatment. 

西尔瓦诺说，很少有希皮博女孩被告知要自己学习或谋生。相反，她们被教导要等待丈夫。一旦结婚，他们就会被教导如何处理问题、困难或不良待遇。

“Even though we suffer, people tell us: Take it, he’s the father of your children. Take it, he is your husband,” Silvano said. “But deep inside, we are wounded. So what do we do? We sing.” 

“尽管我们很痛苦，但人们告诉我们：接受吧，他是你们孩子的父亲。接受吧，他是你的丈夫。”西尔瓦诺说道。“但在内心深处，我们受伤了。那么我们该怎么办呢？我们唱歌。

” The lesson is taught by mothers to daughters: If you are hurt at home, grab your cloth, your brush and leave. Go far away, alone, and sit. Connect with your kené and paint. And while you paint, sing. 

母亲们给女儿们上的一课是：如果你在家里受伤了，拿起你的布、你的刷子就走。独自走远，坐下。与您的 kené 联系并进行绘画。当你画画的时候，唱歌。 

“That’s our healing,” Silvano said. “Through our songs, our kenés, we are free.” 

“这就是我们的治愈方法，”西尔瓦诺说。“通过我们的歌曲、我们的肯尼斯，我们获得了自由。”