Lesson 4
第4课
The New Australians
新澳大利亚人
Is it all kangaroos and surfing?
那儿只有袋鼠和冲浪吗？
Welcome to "Countries of the World".
欢迎来到“世界文化”。
Today we're talking about Australia, the land of sunshine and surfing.
今天我们将谈一谈阳光和冲浪之地—澳大利亚。
George and Fiona are two Australians who have joined us for today's show.
乔治和菲奥纳是参加我们今天节目的两位澳大利亚人。
So first of all, tell us a bit about yourselves.
首先请介绍一下你们自己。
Hi. Well, I live on an acre of land outside Melbourne
大家好。我住在墨尔本外的一片土地上，
but my family actually came here from Greece in the 1980s
但是我家人实际上是20世纪80年代从希腊来到这里的，
- in fact, Melbourne is the city with the largest number of Greek people outside Athens!
—事实上墨尔本是雅典以外拥有雅典人最多的城市。
At first, we didn't feel we belong here, but now we are attached to the land we live on.
起初，我们并不认为自己属于这里，但是现在我们已与我们所居住的土地紧紧地联系在一起了。
Thanks, George. Now here's Fiona from Sydney.
谢谢乔治。这位是来自悉尼的菲奥纳。
Hello. Australia is my birthplace but my mum came from Scotland and my dad came from France.
大家好。澳大利亚是我的出生地，但是我妈妈来自苏格兰，爸爸来自法国。
That's the great thing about Australian culture - it's such a mix of different cultures.
这就是澳大利亚文化的伟大之处—它是一种不同文化的混合体。
The early settlers were mostly English and Irish,
早期的移民大多是英国人和爱尔兰人，
but since 1945, the population has become more and more mixed with people from Southern Europe and Asia.
但是从1945年以来，越来越多的南欧人和亚洲人移居此地。