CNN News: 美国历史上比较大市政破产案——波多黎各申请破产

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has filed for bankruptcy. And because it owes $73 billion in debt, this is the biggest municipal bankruptcy filling in U.S. history.
美国领土波多黎各申请破产。波多黎各负债730亿美元，这是美国历史上最大的市政破产案。
Bankruptcy is a process that has to be approved by a judge. If it is, it could allow the Caribbean island to pay back creditors less than what it owes. As things stand now, Puerto Rico has been missing payments on its debt for months.
破产是一个必须由法官批准的程序。如果确实是破产，那加勒比海岛波多黎各支付的还款可以少于债务。就目前情况来看，波多黎各已经拖欠了数月的债务。
But one downside to bankruptcy is that it could make investors less willing to lend money to the island, and a lack of money is the problem to begin with.
但是破产有一个负面影响——它会使投资人更不愿意借款给波多黎各，而缺少资金就是问题的开端。
Puerto Rico has been in an economic recession for about 10 years. Its unemployment rate is more than 10 percent compared with less than 5 percent on the U.S. mainland. These are big reasons why the island's population has decreased by 350,000 people in the past 10 years. And fewer working residents means less tax revenue for the island's indebted government.
约十年以来，波多黎各一直处于经济衰退中。波多黎各的失业率超过10%，而美国内陆地区的失业率不足5%。这些都是过去10年波多黎各减少35万人口的主要原因。劳动力减少意味着该岛负债累累的政府的税收也随之减少。
According to the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute, between 2013 and 2014, nearly 74,000 people migrated to the United States in search of a better life. Among them, doctors, engineers and teachers.
据波多黎各统计局称，2013年至2014年，有近7.4万名波多黎各人迁移到美国寻求更好的生活。这些人中有医生、工程师还有教师。
This is the first time Puerto Rico faces an exodus. The first major migration occurred in the1950s. But back then, it was mainly farm workers and hard laborers that moved — to put it simply, the poor class in search of economic growth.
这是波多黎各第一次面临迁移潮。第一次大规模迁移出现在上世纪50年代。但当时，迁移者主要是农场工人和劳苦工人——简单来说，就是贫困阶级寻求经济增长。
We are using a lot of the professional young people. In fact, Puerto Rico is an aging society — people like myself, for example, here. And we're not going anywhere. But the young people are leaving because there are no opportunities.
我们需要很多年轻的专业人才。实际上，波多黎各是一个老龄化社会——这里大都是年迈如我一般的人。我们不会离开，而年轻人会因为这里没有机会而离开。
Lack of jobs and economic recession and higher taxes have influenced the migration. For now, Puerto Rico's economic crisis is only pushing more of its citizens to seek better opportunities elsewhere.
缺乏就业机会、经济衰退和高税收导致了人们迁移。现在，波多黎各的经济危机只会迫使更多民众去其他地方寻求更好的机会。
In Puerto Rico, Dania Alexandrino, CNN.