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Opening Trade With Cuba Bittersweet for Some

MIAMI— President Barack Obama's decision to ease restrictions on U.S. trade with Cuba is attracting a lot of attention from the business community, with many companies poised to enter the last communist stronghold in the Americas. Long-time Cuban exiles in Miami say the news is bittersweet, however, for those who had to leave everything behind.

"I remember getting out of school and getting to my house, and there would be a seal on the door," he said.

When Jorge Valdez was eight years old, he and his family left Cuba with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Now all he has left are some old photographs and a lot of memories.

"When I was a kid, my grandfather smoked cigars. We used to sit in the front of the house, and he used to sit in a rocking chair and smoke it, and I’d hold it -- my father and my uncle while they were playing dominoes, which is another part of being Cuban," he said. "It’s something that we do. We play dominoes, smoke cigars and roast pigs. It’s part of being Cuban.”

"One of my favorites is a Don Carlos [cigar brand]," said Valdez.

Today, Valdez owns a successful Miami cigar shop, Sabor Havana, with brands dominated by Cuban families who also fled Cuba and today use other tobacco to make top-brand cigars.

Valdez said people have been smuggling Cuban cigars into the United States for years. But now, large distributors are planning for when the Cuban market opens up, and Valdez is expecting sales to jump.

“I think that when trade opens up with Cuba, and when we do have Cuban cigars to sell here in the United States, there'll be a surge, of course, because it was, or it has been for 50 years, the forbidden fruit, so everyone wants to take a bite of the forbidden fruit,” he said.

Across town in Miami, the stronghold of Cuban-Americans, Andy Consuegra said lifting the trade embargo with Cuba would instantly boost his wine and spirit sales in the Caribbean.

"Overnight it’s about 4 or 5 more million tourists right overnight, plus the increase in tourists that would be expected, should things change or when things change, plus the local population, so another 11, 12 million people,” said Consuegra.

Consuegra said presently, large European companies dominate the market as they do not fall under the U.S. economic embargo.

Businessmen like Consuegra and Valdez look forward to the opportunities that open trade would bring. But for Valdez, it is difficult to forget the past.

"That’s the bitter part. I wish those kinds of things could be erased, but there is so much pain for 50 years that we hold onto that it’s hard to look at the upside of this exchange without there being some benefit to the people that are there," he said.

Valdez said that even if he could, he does not want to return to the communist nation. He said he is content to spend time with his friends and clients in his own little bit of Cuba here in Miami.

詞匯解析

narrow

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

adj.有限的；狹窄的；精密的；度量小的

n.海峽；隘路；狹窄部份

v.變窄

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用作形容詞 (adj.)

The shop sells only a narrow range of goods.

這家商店商品的種類有限。

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.

一種很有限的收入容易使一個人的心胸變窄，脾氣變壞。

用作名詞 (n.)

Toucans also have a narrow, feather-like tongue.

巨嘴鳥也有狹窄部份，像羽毛一樣的舌。

用作動詞 (v.)

In order to widen the road they have to narrow the pavement.

為了拓寬道路只好將人行道弄窄。

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victory

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.勝利；成功

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用作名詞 (n.)

The soldiers exulted at their victory.

戰士們為取得勝利而歡躍。

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flour

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.面粉；粉末

v.研成粉末；撒上粉

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用作名詞 (n.)

Bread is chiefly made of flour.

面包主要是由面粉做成的。

用作動詞 (v.)

You may flour the pastry board so that the dough doesn't stick to it.

你可以在做糕點的面板上撒些面粉，這樣揉好的面粉就不會粘到板上了。

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display

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.顯示；陳列；炫耀

vt.顯示；表現；夸示

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用作名詞 (n.)

There will be a display of bronze statuary in this museum next week.

下星期這個博物館將舉辦一個青銅雕塑作品展覽。

用作及物動詞 (vt.)

He had an opportunity to fully display his talents.

他有了大顯身手的機會。

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terror

難度：2星擴展詞匯，屬常用10000詞

英漢解釋

n.恐怖；驚駭；<口>令人懼怕或討厭的人或事物

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用作名詞 (n.)

Her face worked as she stared at him in terror.

她驚恐地注視著他，臉也嚇得抽動起來。

His terror is so great that he can do nothing.

他驚駭萬分以致什么事都不能做。

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electrical

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.電的；與電有關的

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用作形容詞 (adj.)

Now electrical appliances have entered into ordinary families.

現在家用電器已經步入普通家庭。

The cooker isn't working because of an electrical fault.

這個炊具不能用了，因為出了電氣方面的故障。

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stuff

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.東西；原料；材料

n.素質；本質；廢物；無用的想法；廢話，蠢話

vt.塞滿；填滿

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

Get rid of that stuff in the garage.

把車庫里那些沒有用的東西處理掉。

用作及物動詞 (vt.)

He stuffed the suitcase with his clothes.

他把衣服塞滿手提箱。

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