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2006年VOA标准英语-Some Turin Area Tourist Sites See Few Olym

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By Brian Padden
Sestiere, Italy
16 February 2006
 
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Olympic Organizers estimate that a million people will visit Turin, Italy during the Winter Games.  Sounds like good news for the city, but as VOA's Brian Padden reports, this surge1 in tourism may actually hurt certain tourist sites in the region.

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On the slopes near the village of Cesana there are few skiers.  Cesana is the site of the Olympic bobsled and luge competitions but its ski slopes are still open to the public. Most of the skiers here are local, from nearby Turin, Italy.  Most of the Olympic visitors are probably watching the games.  

 
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Laura Mills, here from London to visit family, is surprised there are so few people skiing.  “Yeah, we thought it'd be really busy.  So it's good for us."

Ski instructor2 Lara Zaccaria says a slow winter season is the price they are paying for hosting the Olympics. "Here we don't have a lot a business because the hotels are full for the Olympics.  But it is good because it is important for all of Italy and the world and for us.  So we think the future will be better."

The nearby village of Sestiere is full of Olympic visitors.   And most are having a great time. 

Elizabeth Biaett, is from Utah in the U.S.  She was a volunteer during the 2002 games in Salt Lake City and says Italy is doing a great job of hosting the Olympics. "It has been incredible3.  The Italian people have gone out of their way to make things work."

  
  
Tourism officials, such as Mirko Ussegio, says this kind of favorable review by the thousands of visitors here, plus the positive media coverage4 being broadcast to billions around the world, will lead to increased tourism in the future.

"The visibility, the promotion5, you can only get that through the Olympics, [it] is something you can't pay for with any money."

They hope is that the short-term pain being suffered by some will turn into long-term gain for all. 


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1 surge Mrlwi     
n.汹涌,澎湃;vi.汹涌,强烈感到,飞涨;vt.放开,松手
参考例句:
  • The surge travelled southwards along the coast.浪涛沿着海岸向南涌去。
  • It failed to stimulate a surge of investment in industry.这没有能刺激工业投资的激增。
2 instructor D6GxY     
n.指导者,教员,教练
参考例句:
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
3 incredible q8fx7     
adj.难以置信的,不可信的,极好的,大量的
参考例句:
  • Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
  • Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。
4 coverage nvwz7v     
n.报导,保险范围,保险额,范围,覆盖
参考例句:
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
5 promotion eRLxn     
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
参考例句:
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
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