Until the 1980s, the American homeless population comprised mainly older males.

到20世纪80年代，美国的无家可归者主要由老年男性组成。

The first is a better understanding of the homeless population.

第一就是对无家可归者更深入的了解。

It was midmorning, and Venice Beach's homeless population was still camped out.

当时大概是上午十点左右，威尼斯海滩上流浪者们还在外面宿营着。

The homeless population in the U. S. kept swelling and it had climbed 16 percent from 2011 to 2013.

无家可归者人数持续增加，2011年至2013年，美国的无家可归者增加了16%。

"There is a gigantic homeless population that basically 'passes' except nobody knows where they sleep," Otis said. "that population is growing."

“有很大数量的无家可归者” passes “除非没人知道他们睡在哪里，”奥蒂斯说：“人数不断上涨。”

One part of the homeless population that is particularly difficult to count consists of the "throwaway" youths who have been cast of their homes.

有一部分无家可归的人口尤其难以统计，就是那些遭家庭遗弃的“浪荡”少年。

The Urban Institute estimates that children make up 25 percent of the nation's homeless population, but most are living with a single mother, not the father.

根据城市协会估算，全国无家可归的人口中儿童占到百分之二十五。但是，绝大多数儿童和单亲母亲而不是单亲父亲一起生活。

Instead, it starts and ends in Skid row, an area crowded with cardboard boxes and makeshift tents that houses 8,000 to 11,000 of the city's homeless population.

相反，它起始于贫民区，一片挤满了纸箱和临时搭建帐篷，住着8000到11000无家可归的人的区域。

According to the 2006 census there were over 44,000 young people homeless, meaning that about 43% of the Australian homeless population are babies, children and youth under the age of 25.

根据2006年人口普查有超过44,000名无家可归的年轻人，这意味着约43%的人口是澳大利亚无家可归者在25岁以下的婴儿，儿童和青年。

Many people feel that volunteering to help feed, cloth, and employ the homeless reduces the population of those in need.

许多人认为，自愿为无家可归者提供食物、衣物并雇用他们减少了贫困者的数量。

Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless, and undernutrition affects 70 percent of the population.

成千上万的人依然无家可归，70%的人口营养不足。

That is partly because of the huge scale of the disaster-a third of the population of 9m were affected and about 1m are homeless.

救援活动步履维艰的部分原因时此次地震规模巨大——海地本来人口有九百万，震后三分之一的人口受到影响，一百万人口无家可归。

The earthquake caused widespread damage and approximately 5,000 of the 400,000 population of Managua were killed, leaving 20,000 injured and over 250,000 homeless.

这次地震造成广泛的破坏，大约在马那瓜40万人口中有5000人死亡，20000人受伤，造成超过25万人无家可归。

Thirty percent of Japan's urban population was killed, wounded or left homeless; 2.5 million buildings were destroyed.

占日本城市总人口30%的人死亡，受伤或者无家可归；250万建筑物被彻底摧毁。

More than 20 million people have been affected (12 perecent of the population), at least four million have been left homeless, and nearly 2,000 have died.

两千多万人受灾（受灾人数相当于总人口的12%），至少四百万人无家可归，近2000人被洪水夺去了生命。

Out of a population of 70 million, at least 9 million were homeless.

全国7000万人口中，900万人无家可归。

The homeless make up a growing percentage of America's population.

无家可归者在美国人口中所占的比例越来越高。

San Francisco has less than one-tenth Bangkok's population but six times as many homeless people.

旧金山的人口不到曼谷的十分之一，无家可归者人数却是后者的六倍。