This week, I returned to Elkhart. Unemployment there has now fallen to around four percent.

本周，我重返故地。那里的失业率已经降至大约百分之四。

Before I got to Elkhart, I chatted with Ryan about his custom design process.

在我到达埃尔克哈特之前，我和瑞安聊了聊他的定制设计过程。

RVs are such a part of Elkhart's DNA that they have a museum and Hall of Fame dedicated to them.

房车是埃尔克哈特 DNA 的一部分，他们有一个专门的博物馆和名车堂。

For every swoopy RV I saw while driving around Elkhart I also saw edgier designs with names like Raptor and Avenger.

我在埃尔克哈特附近开车时看到的每一辆时髦的房车，我也看到了像猛禽和复仇者这样的前卫设计。

In Elkhart, an RV manufacturing town near the Michigan border, the President cycled through hot-button issues like a stand-up comic workshopping laugh lines.

在密歇根边境附近的“世界房车之都”埃尔克哈特，总统翻来覆去地讲着那些热点话题，宛如讲述单口喜剧段子一般。

Elkhart was hit harder than most. Unemployment there peaked at nearly twenty percent shortly after my visit. Nearly one in five people there were out of work.

艾尔哈特的情况比大多数地方都严重。我访问后不久，那里的失业率就达到了近百分之二十的顶峰。几乎每五个人中就有一个没有工作。