snowbird

Snowbirds

迁徙者

Anybody who drives in Arizona at this time of year will be familiar with the annual migration of “snowbirds” — retired people seeking to escape the sub-zero temperatures of the north for the warmer desert winter. As many as 300,000 snowbirds flock here each year, so if you haven’t seen them before, there’s a good chance that you will encounter one of them when you find yourself stuck behind a caravan with Nebraska licence plates doing 40mph on a single-lane highway.

在每年的这个时候，那些在亚利桑那州驱车行进的人们一定会对旅行者们一年一度的迁徙很熟悉，这