favela

favela

1. To avoid paying for electricity, Rocinha's residents illegaly connect themselves to the local network. Located in Rio de Janeiro, this favela is the largest in Latin America with 800,000 inhabitants.

为了免交电费,罗西尼亚的居民们将自己家的电线非法连接到当地电网上。人口达80万的罗西尼亚位于里约热内卢,是拉丁美洲最大的贫民窟。

2. Located in Rio de Janeiro, this favela is the largest in Latin America with 800,000 inhabitants.

人口达80万的罗西尼亚位于里约热内卢,是拉丁美洲最大的贫民窟。

3. The author entered the favela and bars in Nanjing to show a different world, got to know others' living conditions, and meanwhile made his own spiritual world complete.

以一种体验,来诠释各种人的生活,以体验其中的自我剖析,来体会他人的生存状态,完善自己的精神世界。作品记录南京中山门城墙下的贫民区,南京酒吧的夜生活。

4. At the foot of the favela hundreds of police operatives had gathered to celebrate the day's haul;

在贫民区山脚下,数百名警察探员聚集在一起,庆祝当天的成果;

5. But what's living in a favela like?

在贫民区的生活是什么样子的呢?

6. "Well, it's true that living in a favela in Rio de Janeiro isn't exactly like living in Milan's San Siro district.

在里约热内卢的贫民区生活和在米兰的圣西罗生活是完全不同的。

7. Located in Rio de Janeiro,this favela is the largest in the Latin America with 800,000 inhabitants.

它位于里约热内卢,容纳800,000居民,是拉丁美洲最大的贫民窟。

8. Casas Bahia, the country's largest retailer, is celebrating the opening there of its first ever store in a favela (pictured above).

巴西最大的家电零售商CasasBahia,正在那举行其贫民窟首家店铺的开业庆典(见上图)。

9. But growing up poor has been a great incentive to show you can become someone even if you are born in a Brazilian favela.

穷苦的成长经历激励着我尽管出生在巴西的贫民区,但也要出人头地。

10. That changed when police installed themselves inside the favela, earned the trust of residents and began playing the occasional samba.

维和人员赢得了当地居民的信任,更为少见的是,他们还与当地的居民们跳起了热情的桑巴。

11. The peasant family is cramped tightly into a small makeshift shack in a favela, or squatter slum

那个农民家庭却挤在贫民窟中一个临时凑合的小棚屋里。

12. Those slum-dwellers who buy their water by the litre, whether they live in Kibera, Dharavi or a Brazilian favela, will pay more for it than their neighbours in richer districts who get it from a tap.

那些贫民窟里的居民买水总是以升计量,在肯尼亚的贫民区基贝拉,孟买的贫民区达拉维,以及巴西的贫民窟,水价都比富裕城区水龙头里流出的水贵好多。

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