2006年VOA标准英语-Some Turin Area Tourist Sites See Few Olym
时间：2019-01-06 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（二月）
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 surge 1 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.
Laura Mills
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 instructor 2 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 incredible 3. 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 coverage 4 being broadcast to billions around the world, will lead to increased tourism in the future.
"The visibility, the promotion 5, 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.
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。