2023年经济学人 好坏参半的美国春假（1）

 

 

    Spring break is an economic nightmare for the hottest host cities春假对于最热门的主场城市来说是一场经济噩梦Few things are as rowdy and reckless as college spring break.

    很少有事情像大学春假一样吵闹鲁莽。

    Each year swarms¹ of students make a pilgrimage to America’s southern beach towns每年都有成群的学生前往美国南部的海滨小镇，for a booze-fuelled week-long party.

    参加为期一周的狂欢派对。

    According to Airlines for America, a trade group, this year an astonishing 2.6m Americans根据美国航空公司(一个贸易组织)的数据，今年3月和4月每天are expected to fly on each day of March and April—a number boosted, no doubt, by spring-break travel.

    将有260万美国人乘坐飞机，这一数字无疑是受到春假旅行的推动。

    Many of their destination-cities are dreading² their arrival.

    许多目的地城市对他们的到来感到恐惧。

    Miami Beach never wanted spring-breakers.

    迈阿密海滩从来没想要春假游客到来。

    This year, as partiers flooded the beach, things got raucous³.

    今年，随着聚会者涌向海滩，环境变得喧闹起来。

    On March 19th, after two consecutive⁴ deadly shootings,3月19日，在连续发生两起致命枪击事件后，

    the mayor imposed an emergency midnight curfew市长宣布紧急午夜宵禁，

    and banned the sale of takeaway alcohol after 6pm in part of the city.

    并禁止下午6点以后在该市部分地区出售外卖酒。

    The rules could legally last just 72 hours.

    这些规定在法律上只能维持72小时。

    Compared with other tourists, college students barely spend money.

    与其他游客相比，大学生几乎不花钱。

    They pile into cheap (and sometimes dodgy) rented rooms他们挤在廉价的(有时是出问题的)租来的房间里，and chug supermarket booze rather than buying cocktails⁵.

    大口地喝着超市里的酒，而不买鸡尾酒。

    If they dine out, according to vexed⁶ restaurateurs, they hardly tip.

    恼火的餐馆老板说，如果他们外出就餐，几乎就不给小费。

    After dark they get drunk and drugged.

    天黑后，他们喝醉了，然后嗑药。

    The wildness attracts undesirable⁷ characters: on the South Beach shore荒野吸引了一些不受欢迎的人物:在南海滩的岸边，a middle-aged⁸ man offers a teenager an unlabelled bottle of “champagne”.

    一个中年男子给了一个少年一瓶没有标签的“香槟”。

    Non-college-goers who come to join in the debauchery commit more serious crimes—没有上过大学的人来参加这种花天酒地的活动会犯下更严重的罪行——feuds become perilous⁹ when partiers bring pistols.

    当参与者带着手枪时，争端就变得危险了。

    Nearly half of the 800 arrested at last year’s spring break were county residents from outside the city;在去年春假期间被捕的800人中，有近一半是外地的县城居民;just a quarter were from out of state.

    只有四分之一来自外州。

    This year police arrested 322 people and seized over 70 guns in the first three weeks of March.

    今年3月的前三周，警方逮捕了322人，缴获了70多支枪。

1 swarms   

蜂群，一大群( swarm的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
• On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。

2 dreading   

v.害怕，恐惧，担心( dread的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• She was dreading having to broach the subject of money to her father. 她正在为不得不向父亲提出钱的事犯愁。
• This was the moment he had been dreading. 这是他一直最担心的时刻。

3 raucous   

adj.(声音)沙哑的，粗糙的

参考例句：

• I heard sounds of raucous laughter upstairs.我听见楼上传来沙哑的笑声。
• They heard a bottle being smashed,then more raucous laughter.他们听见酒瓶摔碎的声音，然后是一阵更喧闹的笑声。

4 consecutive   

adj.连续的，联贯的，始终一贯的

参考例句：

• It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
• The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。

5 cocktails   

n.鸡尾酒( cocktail的名词复数 )；餐前开胃菜；混合物

参考例句：

• Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks. 请四点钟左右来，我们喝鸡尾酒，吃烤牛排。 来自辞典例句
• Cocktails were a nasty American habit. 喝鸡尾酒是讨厌的美国习惯。 来自辞典例句

6 vexed   

adj.争论不休的；（指问题等）棘手的；争论不休的问题；烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 )；使苦恼；使生气；详细讨论

参考例句：

• The conference spent days discussing the vexed question of border controls. 会议花了几天的时间讨论边境关卡这个难题。
• He was vexed at his failure. 他因失败而懊恼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 undesirable   

adj.不受欢迎的，不良的，不合意的，讨厌的；n.不受欢迎的人，不良分子

参考例句：

• They are the undesirable elements among the employees.他们是雇员中的不良分子。
• Certain chemicals can induce undesirable changes in the nervous system.有些化学物质能在神经系统中引起不良变化。

8 middle-aged   

adj.中年的

参考例句：

• I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
• The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。

9 perilous   

adj.危险的，冒险的

参考例句：

• The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
• We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机，我们如今已安然无恙。