埃利斯岛

这个博物馆将用来纪念经过埃利斯岛的数百万移民。

The museum will serve as a memorial to the millions who passed through Ellis Island

美国移民政策研究所（MigrationPolicyInstitute）的穆扎法尔•齐矢堤（MuzaffarChishti）说，埃利斯岛（EllisIsland，原美国移民局所在地）的官员曾拒绝有结核病的游客进入。

Officials at Ellis Island used to keep visitors out because they had tuberculosis , says Muzaffar Chishti of the US-based Migration Policy Institute .

在欧洲提供寻根服务的公司主要是数据提供商，提供从埃利斯岛（EllisIsland，指美国移民局&译者注）搜索的资料，以及多个世纪的婚姻、死亡和人口普查资料。

Businesses focusing on European ancestry are basically data providers , offering electronic searches of material from Ellis Island or centuries of marriage , death and census records .

埃利斯岛在移民中以伤心岛著称。

Ellis Island became known as Heartbreak Island among immigrants .

从埃利斯岛开始，他们向整个大陆扩散

And from Ellis Island , they spread out across the continent .

埃利斯岛是个小岛，离自由女神像只有一英里远。

Ellis Island is a small island only a mile away form Lady Liberty .

埃利斯岛是曼哈顿西南纽约湾北部一岛屿。

Ellis Island is an island of Upper New York Bay southwest of Manhattan .

渡轮带他们到了埃利斯岛。

Ferryboats took them to Ellis Island .

在埃利斯岛安顿下来后。

After settling down at Ellis Island .

前往埃利斯岛那里是大多数新美国人的第一站

on their way to Ellis Island , the first stop for most new Americans .

美国几乎有一半的人口，家族成员中至少有一名曾经通关经过埃利斯岛。

Almost half of all Americans have at least one family member who passed through Ellis Island .

通往美国的历史门户，埃利斯岛，也被改建成一座博物馆。

Ellis Island , the historic gateway to America , has also been turned into a museum .

轮渡可带游客到埃利斯岛和自由女神所矗立的自由岛。

Ferries take visitors to both Ellis Island and Liberty Island , where the Statue of Liberty stands .

成百万人通过埃利斯岛来到美国开始了他们新的生活。

Millions of people came through Ellis Island on their way to new lives in the United States .

今天，超过1亿的美国人他们的祖先都是从埃利斯岛来到美国的

Today , more than 100 million Americans can trace their roots back to ancestors who came through Ellis Island .

海平面上升可能破坏大沼泽国家公园的重要生态系统，甚至威胁到埃利斯岛和自由女神像。

Rising seas could destroy vital ecosystems in the Everglades , even threaten Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty .

几十年前移民一词还会使人联想到埃利斯岛的船只，当然，还有自由女神像。而现如今已是一幅截然不同的光景。

Decades ago the word immigration conjured of images of boats at Ellis Island , of course , the Statue of Liberty . Today , it 's a different story .

或许，在我身后上演的正是美国最为著名的疫情隔离事件。埃利斯岛有1200万名群众紧急撤离，超过2百万人住进医院或者接受隔离。

Perhaps , America 's most famous quarantine happened right behind me : on Ellis Island , 12 million people were processed , more than 2 million would be hospitalized or quarantined .