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Phyllis Marder quit her job as an Uber driver shortly after the coronavirus pandemic hit.
马尔德在冠状病毒大流行后不久辞去了优步司机的工作。
Now she's struggling and says she's no longer embarrassed to go to food pantries to help her get by.
现在她很挣扎，说她不再不好意思去食品店帮她过日子了。
Then I decided that that was just, like keeping a secret makes things get worse so,
然后我决定，就像保守秘密会让事情变得更糟一样，
and makes me feel worse about myself. And so I decided that it was more important to talk about it,
让我对自己感觉更糟。所以我决定更重要的是谈谈这个问题，
like, you know, I have to pay my electric bill and I have to go to the food pantry. There are many Americans like her.
比如，你知道，我得付电费，还要去食品储藏室。许多美国人和她一样。
Feeding America, one of the largest anti-hunger organizations in the US says
美国最大的反饥饿组织之一“喂饱美国”说
the number of people seeking food assistance has increased an average of 60 percent since the pandemic began.
自从大流行开始以来，寻求食物援助的人数平均增加了60%。
Food banks and non-profit groups are helping many survive.
食品站和非盈利组织正在帮助许多人生存。
Briana Dominguez, a mother of two says she began going to pantries more often after her boyfriend lost his job.
布里亚娜·多明格斯是两个孩子的母亲，她说，在男友失业后，她开始更频繁地去食品室。
Her job will come to an end in about two weeks and Dominguez hopes this Illinois food bank called Hillside Pantry will help them survive.
她的工作将在大约两周内结束，多明格斯希望这个伊利诺伊州的食品站称为山坡食品室，将帮助他们生存下来。
I'm pretty sure if I didn't have my job, I don't know what I would do.
我很确定如果我没有我的工作，我不知道我会怎么做。
I don't know what I would do if I didn't have Hillside. It would be very hard.
我不知道如果没有山坡站我会怎么做。这将是非常困难的。
New Orleans resident Norman Butler is unemployed and says he and family would go hungry without this food aid.
新奥尔良居民诺曼·巴特勒失业了，他说如果没有粮食援助，他和家人将挨饿。
If it wasn't for the people being able to have you come out to get some food to put on the table, we'd be worse off. No doubt, we would starve.
如果不是人们能让你出来拿点食物摆上餐桌，我们的情况会更糟。毫无疑问，我们会饿死的。
Butler says he isn't fortunate enough to be able to telework like so many Americans during the pandemic.
巴特勒说，他没有足够的幸运，能够像许多美国人一样在流感大流行期间进行远程工作。
Cause everybody can't work from home and everybody doesn't have careers
因为每个人都不能在家工作，每个人都没有职业
where they can just operate on a computer and still have their income coming in.
在那里，他们只需在电脑上操作，仍然可以获得收入。
Somebody like me that's a limousine driver, shuttle bus driver, a bus boy.
像我这样的人是豪华轿车司机，穿梭巴士司机，公共汽车司机。
And as he puts a block of cheese in his refrigerator, This is what you call a blessing.
当他把一块奶酪放进冰箱时，这就是你所说的祝福。
Mariama Diallo, VOA news
玛丽亚玛·迪亚洛，VOA新闻
