Welcome to the Voice of America's “News Words”.
欢迎收听美国之音“新闻词汇”。
Today's words are about becoming a citizen: birthright citizenship.
今天的词汇有关成为公民：出生公民权。
Some Republican presidential hopefuls, including businessman Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, say they want to do away with the so-called birthright citizenship.
一些有希望竞选总统的共和党人，包括商人唐纳德·特朗普，德克萨斯州议员泰德·克鲁斯，他们说他们想要废除所谓的出生公民权。
To do that, though would take a constitutional amendment.
然而，要做到这个还需要进行宪法修改。
Birthright citizenship is the legal right to citizenship for children born in a country's territory.
出生公民权是出生在一个国家领域内的孩子成为其公民的合法权利。

Any person born in the United States is given birthright citizenship.
任何出生在美国的人都被赋予了出生公民权。
Now, when you hear the words birthright citizenship, you will know what these news words mean.
现在，当你听到单词“出生公民权”，你就知道这个新闻词汇的意思了。