今年，自中東、北非出逃的難民湧向歐洲，引爆1945年以來最大人口移動潮。歐盟原本無情排拒，一張3歲男童陳屍海灘的照片讓情勢逆轉。德國總理梅克爾率先歡迎尋求庇護的難民（asylum-seeker），但隨著人數暴增，他們的明天才是新一波問題的開始。
【難民潮淺談】 asylum 避難、庇護 A：Pictures of the drowned 3-year-old boy on a Turkish beach gave Europe a shock. （3歲男童溺斃在土國海灘的照片震驚全歐。） B：That's why European ministers are holding talks on how to distribute the influx of asylum-seekers from Syria. （此為歐盟部長們討論分配敘利亞難民之因。） overburdened 負擔過多的、負荷過重的 A：Merkel said Germany would contribute the shelters, police, and job training for those refugees. （梅克爾說德國會出收容所、警力和職訓。） B：Germany can cope with the problems; however, some European countries said they are overburdened. （德國的確能應付，有些歐盟國抱怨負擔過重。） to undermine 瓦解、損害 A：Germany's population is set to slide, so the migration probably will solve its demographic issues. （德國人口減少，難民潮或可解此結構問題。） B：But the new border controls probably will undermine the open-border and passport-free agreement. （但是新的邊界管制可能瓦解過境免簽協定。） 【延伸關鍵字】 1. refugee：難民，與asylum-seeker不同之處在於，已正式尋求庇護 2. economic migrant：經濟移民（尤指移出國境）；migrant亦有流浪之意 3. immigrant：單純自境外遷入的移民 多益時事通工作團隊獨家授權