哈瓦那孪生街
概述：看到双胞胎虽不算罕见，但也是小概率事件。而在一条小街上居然生出12对双胞胎，这样的几率有多大呢？这就是古巴哈瓦那神奇的的68-A号街。
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Havana
Calle 68-A
Sarah Rainsford
p.s. 文中有一处连字符的写法，请参照：three and four-hour flights
主持：haifaforever
校对：早安Miki
翻译&注释：早安Miki
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201311/20131116061841112585.mp3Now there's one corner of the Cuban capital Havana where you'd be forgiven for thinking that you're seeing double. Calle 68-A is home to a remarkably high number of twins, and most of them are identical. There are many wild and wonderful theories about why this has happened, and Sarah Rainsford has been investigating.
So this is Calle 68-A, just a few streets away from my own house here in Havana. In fact, it's a narrow street with lots of potholes in the road and one and two-storey houses on either side, painted turquoise, blue, red and pink. It's just two short blocks to this street. But I've come here because it's home to 12 sets of twins.
There's no sign of anyone at first, just a radio pumping retro music from behind a shutter. But I soon find an elderly man, rocking in a chair on his porch and chatting to a friend. And it turns out they are both grandparents to twins.
"Mine were born here," one of the men tells me. "And his, and the ones who live opposite."在古巴首都哈瓦那的一个角落，你若是疑心自己眼花了，决不会有人怪你。68-A街盛产双胞胎，而且多数都是同卵。就其原因，有各种夸张奇特的说法，萨拉·雷特曼前去一探究竟。
这里就是68-A街了，离我自己在哈瓦那的家不过几条街的距离。事实上，这条街很窄，路上还坑坑洼洼的，路两旁是漆成蓝绿色、蓝色、红色或粉色的一两层房屋。我家离这条街只有两个短短的街区，但我此次前来，是因为这里出了12对双胞胎。
刚开始我没见到半个人影，只有百叶窗后一台收音机在大声放着复古音乐。但很快，我就找到一位老人，他正坐在自家门廊的摇椅上跟朋友聊天，他俩的孙辈都是双胞胎。
“我的孙辈出生在这里，”其中一位告诉我，“他也是，对面的人家也是。”
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