They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants.

他们宣称自己是政治难民，不是经济移民。

The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.

随着移民们南移，人口便增加了，至少是暂时增加了。

The government divides asylum seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.

政府将寻求政治庇护的人划分为经济移民和真正的难民。

Somewhat later, the migrants returned, bringing new species with them.

不久之后，移民回来了，还带来了新的物种。

New species of fauna populated the Mediterranean when the old migrants returned.

当“旧移民”返回地中海时，地中海又出现了新的动物物种。

Unlike the British, continental migrants have to struggle with an unfamiliar language and new customs.

与英国人不同的是，欧洲大陆的移民必须努力适应陌生的语言和新的习俗。

Today, the motives of people who move short distances are very similar to those of international migrants.

今天，短途移民的动机与国际移民非常相似。

Most British migrants miss council housing, the National Health scheme, and their relatives and former neighbors.

大多数英国移民怀念政府住房、国家健康计划以及他们的亲戚和以前的邻居。

Go down 'heart-break alley' among some of the migrants and find out just how expansive the Aussie is to his immigrants.

去一些移民的“心碎胡同”看看，你就会发现澳洲人对移民是多么的慷慨。

By and large, Australia still prefers British migrants, and tends to be rather less selective in their case than it is with others.

总的来说，澳大利亚仍然偏爱英国移民，而且对英国移民的挑剔比其他国家的移民要少得多。

A far bigger cause of concern than the growth of national groups, however, is the increasing number of migrants who return to their countries of origin.

然而，比民族群体增长更令人担忧的是越来越多的移民返回其原籍国。

Italy has for some years been the second biggest source of migrants, and the Australians have also managed to attract a large number of Greeks and Germans.

意大利多年来一直是第二大移民来源国，澳大利亚也设法吸引了大量的希腊人和德国人。

Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

大量的工作机会、就医机会、教育机会，以及摆脱无聊农民农业生活的能力，都吸引着进城的农民工。

People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance.

在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取不同类票证，以获得微薄报酬的那些人，通常是来自乡村地区的移民者和无业人员。

People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance.

在大城市里被雇来替别人排队获取不同类票证，以获得微薄报酬的那些人，通常是来自乡村地区的移民者和无业人员。

Britain has always been the principal source—ninety percent of Australians are of British descent, and Britain has provided one million migrants since the Second World War.

英国一直是澳大利亚移民的主要来源国——90%的澳大利亚人是英国后裔，自二战以来，英国已经提供了100万移民。

Bailyn's third proposition suggests two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants: one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land.

贝林的第三个主张提出了在成千上万的移民中普遍存在的两种模式：一种是契约仆役，另一种是为了获得土地。

American Coast Guard officials in Florida say they have returned to Cuba a group of would-be migrants who tried to make their way to the United States in an unusual vessel—a floating truck.

佛罗里达州的美国海岸警卫队官员说，一群移民试图乘坐一艘不同寻常的船——一辆漂浮的卡车——前往美国，他们已经被遣返回古巴。

It has been frequently assumed, but not proved, that the majority of the migrants in what has come to be called the Great Migration came from rural areas and were motivated by two concurrent factors.

人们常常假设，但没有证据证明，在所谓的“大迁移”中，大多数移民来自农村地区，这是由两个同时发生的因素推动的。

Most urban Africans live in slums; migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.

大多数非洲城市居民生活在贫民窟里；移居到城市的人们的生活状况往往并不比他们在农村时好多少。

During cooling most migrants would be expected to travel toward Africa, which is near the equator, since this is the direction dictated by habitat changes on a cooling Earth.

在气候变冷期间，大多数迁徙者预计将前往靠近赤道的非洲，因为在气候变冷的地球上，这是栖息地变化所决定的方向。

Arctic terns, being true long-distance migrants, they nest in coastal wetlands of northern Europe but fly south for thousands of miles to spend the European winters in Antarctica.

北极燕鸥是真正的长途迁徙者，它们在北欧沿海湿地筑巢，但会向南飞行数千英里，在南极洲度过欧洲的冬季。

The flow of migrants has gone into reverse.

民工的流向也已逆转。

No wonder that the migrants are increasingly restive.

因此外来人员日益感到不安也就不足为奇了。

As in the novel, many of the migrants are young women.

如同小说中一样，许多流动人口都是年轻女子。

The country’s villages still contain perhaps 70m potential migrants.

中国农村仍然有大约7千万的潜在民工。

Some of Guangdong's measures have struck a sour note with migrants.

广东出台的一些新措施遭到了农民工的冷嘲热讽。