and immediately a smell hits you.

並立即有一股味道撲面而來。

Now, I can't really describe this smell,

現在，我真的無法形容這種味道。

but it's very unpleasant.

但它是非常不愉快的。

So now, I begin to just do your general just looking around.

所以，現在，我開始只是做你一般的只是四處看看。

Then all of a sudden I'm like,

然後突然間我就像。

it looks like the wall is moving.

它看起來像牆是移動的。

So, hundreds and hundreds of roaches on this guy's wall.

所以，這傢伙的牆上有成百上千的蟑螂。

That's just when you walk in.

這只是當你走進。

His mattress was completely infested with roaches.

他的床墊完全被蟑螂侵佔了。

You could barely see that the mattress,

你幾乎看不到床墊。

the color of the mattress.

床墊的顏色。

I'll put it that way. It looked brown.

我就這麼說吧。它看起來是棕色的。

My name is Larry Bernhardt.

我叫拉里-伯恩哈特

I work for Top Notch Pest Control.

我在Top Notch Pest Control工作。

I've been an exterminator for about 13 years now.

我做滅蟲師已經13年了。

Most pests will reproduce according to food,

大多數害蟲會根據食物進行繁殖。

and, unfortunately, New York is severely overpopulated.

而且，不幸的是，紐約的人口嚴重過剩。

So there's an abundance of food and shelter

所以這裡有豐富的食物和住所。

for them to just keep reproducing.

讓他們繼續繁殖。

You know, ton of rats.

你知道，一噸的老鼠。

[Interviewer] Right.

[採訪者]對。

Rodents, roaches, you name it,

鼠類，蟑螂，你說的都有。

it's pretty much in New York.

它是相當多的在紐約。

A few places I would never want to live

我最不想去的幾個地方

is pretty much next to old, multi-unit buildings.

是相當多的老舊的，多單元的建築物旁邊。

So like your prewar buildings.

所以像你戰前的建築。

That's basically any building that was like

這基本上是任何建築，像

built before World War II in New York City.

二戰前在紐約市建成。

There's a bunch of holes in the buildings.

建築物上有一堆洞。

They're not up-to-date regulation-wise.

他們沒有最新的法規。

Old piping, stuff like that,

舊管道之類的東西。

will always cause pest problems,

總會造成蟲害問題。

a bunch of places for the rodents and pests to hide.

一堆老鼠和害蟲的藏身之處。

And, yes, next to a park because you don't know

是的，在公園旁邊，因為你不知道。

what's going on inside of the park with all the rodents.

什麼是怎麼回事裡面的公園 與所有的齧齒動物。

Rats tend to burrow, and if there's a bunch of ground

老鼠往往會鑽進洞裡，如果有一大堆地面

that they can burrow into, they're gonna tend to nest there.

它們能鑽進去的地方，就會在那裡築巢。

Once they start looking for food,

一旦他們開始尋找食物。

if there's not food ready for them,

如果沒有為他們準備好食物。

they're gonna make their way into buildings.

他們會讓他們的方式進入建築物。

Especially in the winter, they're looking for warmth.

特別是在冬天，他們在尋找溫暖。

If your building is the closest to the park,

如果你的建築離公園最近。

you're gonna be the first place that they go.

你會是他們去的第一個地方。

So the worst floor to live on

所以，住在最差的樓層

would actually be the ground level or first floor.

實際上將是地面層或一樓。

Pests generally start to go from ground up,

蟲害一般是從地面開始的。

especially rodents.

特別是齧齒類動物。

So you'll get your rat issues and your mouse issues

所以你會得到你的老鼠問題和你的滑鼠問題。

from the ground up.

從根本上。

The pest problem is terrible near restaurants.

餐館附近的蟲害問題很嚴重。

It really has to do with the garbage,

這真的和垃圾有關。

them disposing of it in the proper ways

他們以適當方式處置它

and also in, like, a timely manner.

而且還在，喜歡，及時。

You know, a lot of these restaurants,

你知道，很多這樣的餐廳。

they'll just have like a dumpster out in the back,

他們將只是有像一個垃圾箱 在後面。

and they're just putting the garbage right there.

他們只是把垃圾放在那裡。

What happens is, after nighttime,

發生的事情是，入夜後。

the rats are just going to eat.

老鼠只是去吃。

So as they eat, they'll reproduce more.

所以，隨著它們的進食，它們的繁殖量會更大。

And also with these takeout restaurants,

也與這些外賣店。

if they are having a pest problem,

如果他們有蟲害問題。

and one actually has a roach egg in it,

而其中一個居然有一個蟑螂蛋在裡面。

and now you're putting it into your cabinet,

現在你把它放進你的內閣。

yes, you know have an infestation of roaches.

是的，你知道有一個蟑螂的侵擾。

I think most New Yorkers don't know that

我想大多數紐約人都不知道... ...

a roach egg will typically have 30 to 40 babies in it.

一個蟑螂蛋一般會有30到40個寶寶在裡面。

So generally somebody sees one roach,

所以一般有人看到一隻蟑螂。

they kill it, and they kind of move on with life.

他們殺了它，他們那種繼續生活。

They don't realize that the first thing you should be doing

他們不知道你首先應該做的是

is calling a professional or at least

是叫專業人員或至少是

trying to take care of it on your own,

試圖照顧它在你自己的。

that there's probably 30 more that you're just not seeing.

可能還有30多個你沒看到的。

The most important things would actually be

最重要的事情其實是

taking the trash out every night

夙興夜寐

and making sure there's no dirty dishes in the sink.

並確保水槽裡沒有髒盤子。

Also, no clutter.

同時，也沒有雜亂無章。

Clutter is the worst because once something gets in,

雜亂是最糟糕的，因為一旦有東西進入。

you're not gonna be able to find it

找不到了

due to all the clutter and the messy conditions.

由於種種雜亂無章的狀況。

You know, we're never gonna be ahead of it

你知道，我們永遠不會領先於它。

until people start taking sanitary matters very seriously.

直到人們開始非常重視衛生問題。

I make my way into the bedroom,

我走進臥室。

his mattress was completely infested with roaches.

他的床墊完全被蟑螂侵佔。

I've never seen that in all the years

這麼多年來，我從來沒有見過這種情況

I've been doing pest control.

我一直在做害蟲防治。

[Interviewer] What does that mean,

[採訪者]這是什麼意思。

infested with roaches?

蟑螂出沒？

You could barely see that the mattress,

你幾乎看不到床墊。

the color of the mattress.

床墊的顏色。

I'll put it that way. It looked brown.

我就這麼說吧。它看起來是棕色的。