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For many people the idea of living under a rock might seem like the punchline of a joke. But for one Mexican couple, a hut wedged below a 130-foot boulder in Coahulla, Mexico has been home for the past 30 years.
對(duì)許多人而言，在巖石底下居住這一想法聽(tīng)起來(lái)像是笑話。不過(guò)，對(duì)于一對(duì)墨西哥夫婦來(lái)講，過(guò)去三十年，嵌在墨西哥Coahulla州的一塊高達(dá)130英尺的巨石下的一個(gè)棚屋便是他們的家。
A reporter recently visited the couple, Benito Hernandez and Santa Martha de la Cruz Villarreal, in their primitive desert home 50 miles south of Texas. Hernandez is a farmer who plants and collects the Candelilla plant used in making Candelilla wax.
一名記者近期拜訪了貝尼多-赫納德茲與桑塔•瑪莎-德拉克魯茲•維拉里爾這對(duì)夫婦，他們的家位于德克薩斯州以南50英里的原始沙漠。赫納德茲是一名農(nóng)夫，靠種植和收集蠟大戟為生，這種沙漠植物可以用來(lái)提取小燭樹(shù)蠟。
He first saw this boulder 55 years ago, when he was eight, and decided to make it a home one day. Twenty years later he was able to secure rights to the land.
55年前，赫納德茲第一次見(jiàn)到這塊巨石，那時(shí)他才8歲。當(dāng)時(shí)他就下定決心有朝一日在那里安家。20年后，這里終于成為他的家園。
"I started coming here when I was eight-years-old to visit the Candelilla (harvesting) fields and I liked it here. I liked it and then I continued visiting every three to four months. I wasn't married and I didn't have a family yet but I liked it and I had to keep coming to put my foot in (on the property) because lands here are won through claiming them," Hernandez told the International Business Times.
“我在8歲時(shí)來(lái)到這里，到Candelilla（意為“豐收”）田地參觀時(shí)就喜歡上了這里。因?yàn)橄矚g，每隔三四個(gè)月我都會(huì)來(lái)看看。我那時(shí)還沒(méi)結(jié)婚，也沒(méi)自己的家庭，不過(guò)我就是喜歡這里，總要到這里走走，因?yàn)橹灰阋蟮玫竭@片土地，那它就屬于你了”，赫納德茲在接受《國(guó)際財(cái)經(jīng)時(shí)報(bào)》采訪時(shí)說(shuō)道。
The home, made of sun-dried bricks and cement, has a dirt floor, a wood stove, and no plumbing. Electrical service is said to be unreliable. A nearby stream supplies fresh drinking water. In winter, though, the water source freezes over.
這個(gè)房子由曬干的磚塊和水泥砌成，有泥土地面，配有柴爐，沒(méi)有水管。據(jù)說(shuō)屋里的電器裝置不大好用。附近的一條小溪供應(yīng)新鮮的飲用水。不過(guò)到了冬天，水源就會(huì)凍結(jié)。
"It gets very cold here and we struggle to get food. We have to work hard here on the Candelilla (fields). That's the only job we have. That's what we live from," said Hernandez.
赫納德茲說(shuō)，“冬天這里很冷，找食物不容易。我們必須在Candelilla田地上勤懇勞作，因?yàn)檫@是我們唯一的工作，是我們的生計(jì)所在”。
The couple have seven children, six of whom are married and live nearby.
這對(duì)夫婦共撫養(yǎng)了7個(gè)孩子，其中6個(gè)都已成婚，住在不遠(yuǎn)處。
