VOA常速英语:Family Reunites in Home Made of Shipping Containers

John Kilgore has been getting ready for Christmas, the first he has spent with his children in many years.
约翰·基尔戈尔一直在为圣诞节做准备，这是他多年来第一次和孩子们在一起过圣诞节。

We want to be in our own place, our own home, to have something that we caught on.
我们想在属于自己的家里，去创造自己的回忆。

He shows a visitor through the four-bedroom apartment he shares with his children, ages 9 to 14.
他和孩子们一起住在这个有四间卧室的公寓，孩子们的年龄在9岁到14岁之间，他带着一位拜访者参观了这里。

Comfortable. We got space to do we like do. We got TVs. We got like all this stuff we need.
这里很舒服，我们有足够大的空间去做自己想做的事，也有电视，我们需要的这里都有。

And they’re together as a family.I’m so happy that we can actually move into this, like that, we actually moved into this house.And this is officially the best thing that ever happened to me.
他们在这里聚集成了一个大家庭。我很高兴我们真的能搬进这里，我们真的住进了这所房子，这是我经历过的最好的事情。

The apartment complex has a novel design.It’s built from shipping containers and a partnership between FlyawayHomes,a social enterprise that’s a for-profit company that targets social problems and a noNPRofit organization.
这套公寓设计新颖，它由海运集装箱打造而成，由一家名为“飞越之家”的社会企业和一家非营利性组织合作建立的，前者是一家营利性公司，致力于解决社会问题。

But more importantly admission shipping container I think is the concept of modular factory built housing,where the building is essentially a product that’s being put on top of our site built foundation.
但更重要的是，关于航运集装箱，我认为是取自模块化建房工厂的概念，建筑本质上是一种产品，我们将之置于我们的自建基础之上。

53,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles, some living on the streets, and others out of sight.You know, you’re stepping over tents and there’s a number of people that live there.
洛杉矶有53000人无家可归，一些人流落街头，还有一些生活在我们目光无法触及的地方。我们在街上走，能看到很多帐篷，有很多人就生活在帐篷里。

But then scattered throughout LA County, we do have a number of areas that also struggle with homelessness.
但是后来我们在洛杉矶各处分散开来，有很多地方目前正在努力解决流浪人口问题。

So it’s an ongoing issue, but it’s also come to the forefront more recently which means more money is getting devoted to helping homeless people become house and that’s also a great thing.
这是一个持续性问题，同时也是最近的一个前沿问题，这意味着我们需要更多的钱用来让无家可归的人有房住，这是一件很棒的事情。

For John Kilgore and his children, this Christmas marks a new beginning.
对于约翰·基尔戈尔和孩子们，这个圣诞节意味着一个新的开始。

We started off with Christmas and then starting 2019 and all these individual goal, you know.For them to better them and also better myself.
这个圣诞节就是一个新开始，接下来的2019年也会是一个新的开始，我们都有各自的目标，这对孩子们、对我个人，都会大有裨益。

With a place to call their own, in a project that may point the way to solving the problem of homelessness.
让无家可归的人有一个属于自己的家，这为解决流浪人口问题指明了一条道路。

Mike O Sullivan VOA News Los Angeles.
美国之音记者Mike O Sullivan洛杉矶报道。