印度十大特点.docVIP

Ten big facts about India 印度“十大特点”，你知道吗？ India often attracts generalisations and stereotyping, but more often it defies them. After all, it is an enormous and varied place with the genetic, linguistic, culinary and sartorial diversity which are usually found in a continent. Sam Miller, a former BBC Delhi correspondent who has spent more than half his adult life in India, has chosen 10 big facts about India. 一直以来，印度给人的感觉都是没有什么特色、呆板无趣，但实际上这些正是这个国家所排斥的。毕竟印度是一个幅员辽阔、风情浓郁的国度，通常一个大陆才能拥有的基因多样性、语言多样性、烹饪特色的多样性以及服饰的多样性在印度皆能找到。在印度生活了大半辈子的前英国BBC电台驻印度德里通讯员山姆·米勒（Sam Miller）为我们精选了关于印度的十大事实。 Boy looks down on his baby sister Experts predict that Indias population will peak in the 2060s 1. 人口密集 Indias population will (probably) overtake Chinas in 2028. 据专家预测，印度人口总数在本世纪60年代将达到顶峰，并有望于2028年超越中国。 According to UN estimates, India will become the most populous country in the world in just 14 years time, when it will have about 1.45 billion inhabitants. 联合国数据显示，印度人口或将在未来14年内赶超中国，届时人口总数将达到14.5亿，成为世界第一人口大国。 For many in India, becoming the most populous country will be an achievement, marking the countrys progress in its rivalry with China. 对于许多印度人而言，成为世界第一大人口国将是一项值得骄傲的成就，意味着在与中国抗衡过程中取得了巨大的进步。 For others, particularly from the older generations, it represents a failure of the countrys decades-old attempts to bring its population under control - which included a controversial and counter-productive mass sterilisation campaign during the 1970s. 但对于另外一些人，尤其是老一辈人来说，这种趋势则意味着印度在过去数十年间控制人口总数行动的失败（控制人口行动中比较著名且颇具争议的就是20世纪70年代印度总统甘地强制推行节育政策，而这一行动非但未获成功还起到了反作用，随后数年，印度人口激增。） In fact, birth rates have fallen significantly in almost all parts of India, driven by female education, rising household incomes and greater availability of contraception though this has been partially offset by increased life expectancy. 事实上，近些年由于妇女受教育程度提高、家庭收入不断上涨以及更加有效的避孕措施的出现，基本上印度所有地区的生育率都在大幅下降，但尽管如此，人口寿命的延长却未能扭转人口基数大的事实。 Indias population is likely to reach about 1.6 billion in the 2060s, before decreasing to about 1.5 billion