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2018年5月翻译考试中级笔译模拟试题(5)(2)

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In the U.K., the public sale process has faced many complaints. The London organizing committee offered Britons a chance to buy Olympic tickets through a complicated multistage lottery and set up a re

  In the U.K., the public sale process has faced many complaints. The London organizing committee offered Britons a chance to buy Olympic tickets through a complicated multistage lottery and set up a resale program to allow for the authorized resale of unwanted tickets.

  The lottery yielded a torrent of complaints when many people complained about being completely shut out. Subsequent ticket releases were plagued by website problems. The resale program has pumped some unused tickets back into circulation, but it is lightly used.

  Yet for all the complaints, some tickets are still available for events throughout the Games, especially at the higher price points. On Friday, the Locog website offered tickets to men's gymnastics, beach volleyball and other events. And almost to the last minute, tickets were still available to Friday's opening ceremony, though you would have needed an Olympian wallet to afford the £2,012 ($3,168) and £1,600 ducats that were still around.

  【参考答案】

  一年多以来,许多伦敦市民都曾抱怨奥运会比赛门票一票难求,尤其是游泳和体操等引人入胜的项目。然而上周六,奥运会的第一个全天比赛日的游泳和体操等项目的比赛中,观众席上出现了成片的空座位,显得非常刺眼。

  这是怎么回事?要怪就只能怪企业赞助商、国际体育联盟和持权转播商没有使用派发给他们的门票。让空荡荡的景象显得更为凄凉的是,大量媒体因为觉得一些比赛无聊也不在赛场上露面。这是奥运会上很常见的现象,尤其是在没有奖牌产生的比赛中。

  于是周六上午在北格林尼治体育馆(North Greenwich Arena)举行的男子体操资格赛上,大片空座醒目地出现在观众席。超级明星菲尔普斯(Michael Phelps)参加预选赛的水上运动中心(Aquatics Center)也是如此。在温布尔登,小威廉姆斯(Serena Williams)参加比赛的中心球场(Centre Court)仍然有几百个空座,这个球场以往大多数时候都是爆满的。

  因赛场上的空座感到沮丧的并非只有体育迷们。周六下午,印度网球选手布帕蒂(Mahesh Bhupathi)发推特信息说,为了帮我老婆买一张我明天比赛的门票,我已经试了六个小时了,还是买不到,可观众席看起来却这么空,太扯了!!!

  上周日上午举行的奥运会新闻发布会上,英国记者展示了一张男子体操比赛上观众席空空如也的数码照片,要求伦敦奥委会主席科(Sebastian Coe)查出这些缺席者。科回应说,我很乐意待会儿再看你度假时拍的照片。

  科随后解释说,现在奥运会刚刚开始,奥运会上出现空座位不是什么新鲜事;事实上,比赛场馆的观众往往都爆满。

  科肯定地说,观众席出现空座位的问题不会在奥运会期间一直存在。他说,组织者正在把剩余的票发给军人、学生和教师,那些场馆肯定人满为患。

  周日晚间,上述争议招致了推特(Twitter)一名用户的揶揄。这位名为“空位子”的用户写道,我的祖父是1948年伦敦奥运会上的一个座位,他说因为有了他那次奥运会才如此伟大;我也想成为他那样的位子。

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