第2492期:Canadian Town Lives with Polar Bears(2)

“We’re…used to bears so (when you see one) you don’t start to tremble,” Mayor Mike Spence said. “It’s their area too. It’s important how the community coexists with bears and wildlife in general to really get along. We’re all connected.” “我们……已经习惯了熊，所以（当你看到熊时）你不会开始颤抖，”市长迈克·斯彭斯说。“这也是他们的地盘。社区如何与熊和野生动物共存才能真正和谐相处，这一点很重要。我们都是有联系的。” Churchill residents show polar bear pride in a way that mixes terror and fun.丘吉尔居民以一种既恐怖又有趣的方式表现出北极熊的自豪感。“You know we're the polar bear capital of the world, right? We have the product, it's just about getting out there to see the bears safely,” said Dave Daley, who owns a gift shop, runs dog sleds and promotes the city. He also is a former president of the Chamber of Commerce, an office that supports business activity. “你知道我们是世界北极熊之都，对吧？我们有产品，只是为了安全地看到熊，”拥有一家礼品店、经营狗拉雪橇并宣传这座城市的戴夫·戴利 (Dave Daley) 说。他还是商会的前主席，该商会是一个支持商业活动的办公室。 The former military base had a rocket launch area. It seemed to keep bears away. When it closed, the bears started entering the town more often, longtime residents said. So, Churchill and province officials “put together a polar bear alert program to make sure the community members were looked after, [and] protected,” said Spence who has been Churchill's mayor since 1995. 前军事基地有一个火箭发射区。它似乎可以让熊远离。长期居民说，当它关闭时，熊开始更频繁地进入该镇。因此，丘吉尔和省政府官员“制定了北极熊警报计划，以确保社区成员得到照顾和保护”，自 1995 年以来一直担任丘吉尔市长的斯宾塞说道。 The town's old curfew siren sounds nightly, warning people that it is time to go inside to be safe from bears. 镇上古老的宵禁警报每晚都会响起，警告人们是时候进屋以防熊了。 Georgina Berg recalls growing up in the 1970s near Churchill, where many First Nations people lived. “First Nations” is used in Canada to identify native people. 乔治娜·伯格 (Georgina Berg) 回忆起自己在 20 世纪 70 年代在丘吉尔附近长大的经历，那里居住着许多原住民。在加拿大，“原住民”被用来识别原住民。She remembers how differently her father and mother would react to seeing a bear in the past. She said her father would not pay attention to them. 她记得过去她的父亲和母亲看到熊时会有多么不同的反应。她说她父亲不会理会他们。 “He said, ‘If you don’t bother them, then they won’t bother you,’" she recalled.“他说，‘如果你不打扰他们，他们就不会打扰你，’”她回忆道。 When a bear came near in later years, after her father had died, her mom was frightened. 几年后，她父亲去世后，当一只熊靠近时，她妈妈感到害怕。 “Everybody was yelling, and all the kids had to come in and everybody had to go home. And then we stayed silent in the house for a long time until we knew for sure that bear was gone,” Berg recalled. “每个人都在大喊大叫，所有的孩子都必须进来，每个人都必须回家。然后我们在屋子里沉默了很长一段时间，直到我们确信那只熊已经消失了，”伯格回忆道。 For Van Nest, the provincial officer, the recent meeting with a group of bear watchers was different. The group was about 100 meters away from the bear. He said the bear was “putting on a bit of a show” for the tourists.对于省官员范·内斯特来说，最近与一群熊观察者的会面是不同的。这群人距离熊约100米。他说这只熊正在为游客“表演一些节目”。 “This is a great situation to be in," he said. “The tourists are a safe distance away and the bear’s doing his natural thing and not being harassed by anybody.” “这是一个很好的情况，”他说。“游客们都在安全距离之外，熊正在做他自然的事情，没有受到任何人的骚扰。”