2019-04-18

Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
Life is often hard for internal migrants in China, especially those from Henan and the north-east
原文来源：The Economist 2019-4-13

Article

https://frankzhougq.github.io/article/TE-2019-04-18/

Notes

suffer discrimination based on their regional origin
地域出生

Some fell unconscious and were whisked into hospital
陷入昏迷；送往医院

The food-poisoning scandal quickly lit up Chinese social media
食物中毒丑闻；点燃了社交媒体

focused on the evil of the act and have expressed sympathy for the parents.

people would stoop to anything

stoop to sth： to drop your moral standards to do sth bad or unpleasant 卑鄙（或堕落）到做某事
You surely don't think I'd stoop to that!
你不会认为我会下作到那种地步吧！
I didn't think he'd stoop to cheating.
我觉得他总不至于说谎吧。

chimes in someone
to say something in a conversation, especially to agree with what someone has just said:
'And me!' she chimed in.
"还有我！"她插嘴道。

prejudice against ethnic minorities
少数民族

rural dwellers
乡村居民

has turned urban areas into mosaics of people from hugely varied backgrounds.
马赛克，混合体

Urban Chinese are often contemptuous of these internal migrants
鄙视，看不起

Regional discrimination

a farming province
农业省

are often stereotyped as quarrelsome and pugnacious
被刻板印象为；爱争吵、好斗的

The “Spring Festival Gala” of 2017
2017春晚

regional stereotyping

Such was the case with
Such was the case with sth, 举例子

issue a half-hearted apology.
不尽力的

an internet conglomerate best known for its food-delivery app
企业集团

regional blackening
地域黑

had never come to public attention.
被公众知道

Bai Yansong, a Chinese television anchor
主持人

If allowed to continue, he said, the problem could turn into “a huge cause of social instability and division”.
如果继续下去

But region-based prejudices will long remain.
长期存在