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Faced with a proliferation of luxury housing and chain stores, America’s Chinatowns risk extinction as new immigrants are priced out of city centers, an advocacy group said Wednesday.
高級住宅與無孔不入的連鎖店，使得美國的唐人街隨著新移民因房價過高，而被迫離開市中心，面臨滅絕危機，一個倡議團體週三表示。
A study found that foreign-born residents have become a minority in the Chinatowns of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The number of white residents has grown in all three neighborhoods since 1990 even as the white populations in all the cities as a whole declined.
一份研究發現，海外出生的居民已成為紐約、波士頓與費城唐人街的少數族群。即便這3大城市的白人人口整體而言逐漸減少，但在這3大城唐人街的白人居民數量，卻從1990年起有所成長。
"For many Asian Americans, Chinatown is an essential part of our heritage and history. But Chinatowns on the East Coast are on the verge of disappearing," said the report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
「對許多亞裔美國人而言，唐人街是我們的傳承與歷史的重要一環。但（美國）東岸的唐人街已瀕臨消失危機」，這份「亞裔美國人法律辯護與教育基金」的報告指出。
The report did not assess the large Chinese American communities on the West Coast, although they have witnessed broadly similar trends with a Wal-Mart controversially opening in September in Chinatown in Los Angeles. （AFP）
儘管美國西岸的唐人街也出現類似趨勢，如威名百貨一家分店9月份在爭議聲中於洛杉磯唐人街開幕，該報告並未對西岸的大型華裔美國人社區進行評估。（法新社）
新聞辭典
extinction：名詞，滅絕。
price someone or something out of the market：慣用語，因價格讓某人或某物退出市場，本文中"priced out of city"是將market改成city，意指高房價迫使居民遷離都市。例句：She is a very good actress, but her agent has priced her out of the market.（她是一名優秀的女演員，但她的經紀人開的價格太高，讓她有行無市。）
as a whole：慣用語，整體而論。例句：Unemployment here is much higher than for the country as a whole.（本地的失業率遠高於全國各地。）
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