VOA标准英语2008年-Chinese Officials Hope Olympics Will Boost Tour
时间：2019-02-06 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（八月）
Chinese officials say the Beijing Olympics should bring a welcome boost to China's tourist industry. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Beijing, that while bureaucratic 1 requirements and natural disasters have slowed tourism, officials say an upgraded infrastructure 2 will help the industry after the games.
China's National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing, Jul 2008 (photo released by the Beijing Tourism Administration)
An army of smiling volunteers is here to welcome visitors, and legions of taxi drivers struggle with limited English to get spectators to Olympic venues 3.
A recent crackdown on dissidents, unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang province, and tightened 4 visa restrictions 5 may have dissuaded 6 some potential visitors from coming to China.
Chinese tourism official Wang Zhifa says Beijing hotels have an occupancy rate of 81 percent, lower than at peak times. But he says that based on past Olympics, the peak in tourism could come after the games end August 24.
He says Chinese tourism was hurt by the devastating 7 earthquake in Sichuan province in May, which killed nearly 70,000 people and left millions homeless. Thousands more are missing.
The official says the earthquake cost Sichuan's tourist industry $6.8 billion.
He says more than 1,300 hotels and 8,000 shopping outlets 8 and tourist facilities in Sichuan were damaged in the earthquake.
Still, he says, China's tourism was up two percent in the first seven months this year. He says facilities upgraded for the Olympics and added training for hospitality workers are helping 9 the industry, not only in Beijing but other cities. He predicts that tourism in Sichuan province will rebound 10 in three years, bolstered 11 by planned attractions that include an earthquake museum.
Chinese policeman (L) takes pictures of crime site on Drum Tower in Beijing, 09 Aug 2008
An American tourist was killed in Beijing Saturday and his wife was seriously injured by a man described by police as distraught over family problems. The woman suffered multiple stab wounds and remains 12 in hospital. A Chinese tour guide was also wounded.
Beijing Olympic officials call the attack an isolated 13 incident and say China is safe for tourists. China has been rising through the ranks of world tourist destinations, and Chinese officials hope it will overtake the United States, Spain and first-place France as the world's most popular destination sometime in the next decade.
- The sweat of labour washed away his bureaucratic airs.劳动的汗水冲掉了他身上的官气。
- In this company you have to go through complex bureaucratic procedures just to get a new pencil.在这个公司里即使是领一支新铅笔，也必须通过繁琐的手续。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- The band will be playing at 20 different venues on their UK tour. 这个乐队在英国巡回演出期间将在20个不同的地点演出。
- Farmers market corner, 800 meters long, 60 meters wide livestock trading venues. 农牧市场东北角，有长800米，宽60米的牲畜交易场地。 来自互联网
- The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
- His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- He was easily dissuaded from going. 他很容易就接受劝告不走了。
- Ulysses was not to be dissuaded from his attempt. 尤利西斯想前去解救的决心不为所动。
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- The dumping of foreign cotton blocked outlets for locally grown cotton. 外国棉花的倾销阻滞了当地生产的棉花的销路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They must find outlets for their products. 他们必须为自己的产品寻找出路。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The vibrations accompanying the rebound are the earth quake.伴随这种回弹的振动就是地震。
- Our evil example will rebound upon ourselves.我们的坏榜样会回到我们自己头上的。
- He bolstered his plea with new evidence. 他举出新的证据来支持他的抗辩。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The data must be bolstered by inferences and indirect estimates of varying degrees of reliability. 这些资料必须借助于推理及可靠程度不同的间接估计。 来自辞典例句
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。