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听力文本
It's great being a tourist and leisurely wandering around old towns and villages seeing the sites, but is it such a thrill for the local residents? Villagers living in the area known as 'Old Holland' outside of Amsterdam have had enough of visitors traipsing around and of tour guides with megaphones disturbing their peace. They have got together with local tour companies to create rules of conduct for tourists. The rules include not photographing residents without permission, not strolling into their gardens and not dropping litter. The new code of conduct is an attempt to deal with the growing popularity of the region. Tourism is booming and the number of tourists is expected to rise by 50 per cent in the next decade.
Old Holland is an idyllic area that matches people's image of Dutch life from a slower, bygone age. There are windmills everywhere and locals live in beautifully preserved, traditional wooden houses. Local resident Peter-Jan van Steenbergen told Holland's Het Parool newspaper that the village of Zaanse Schans is like an open-air museum. He said: "I talked to one resident who opened his curtains in the morning and looked into the camera lenses of nine amateur photographers." He added: "The visitors seem happy to knock on the wooden houses to see if it is real wood. If you are the resident of that house, that is not pleasant, of course." He said the busloads of tourists were the biggest nuisance.
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词汇学习
1.leisurely adv.从容不迫地,慢慢地,悠闲地
We walked leisurely into the hotel.
我们慢悠悠地走回酒店 。
2.wander vt.漫步,漫游
Grace allowed her mind to wander to other things.
格雷丝任由自己的思绪游走 。
3.nuisance n.讨厌的东西(人,行为)麻烦事
He spent three days making an absolute nuisance of himself.
他3天时间就把自己变成了个地地道道的“讨人嫌” 。
4.traipse v.漫步;拖曳;在…游荡
We spend the afternoon traipse from one shop to another.
我们用了一下午的时间逛商店,疲惫不堪地逛了一家又一家 。
5.disturb vt.打扰,妨碍
She patted Mona, taking care not to disturb her costume.
她轻轻拍了拍莫娜,小心翼翼地,生怕弄乱她的戏服 。
6.permission n.允许;批准
Police said permission for the march had not been granted.
警方说游行并未得到批准 。
7.stroll vi.散步;奔波
For an evening stroll the beach at Dieppe is hard to beat.
傍晚散步去迪耶普的海滩简直是不二之选 。
8.boom vt.使繁荣
The economy is beginning to boom in China.
中国经济将开始迅速发展 。
9.idyllic adj.田园诗般的;牧歌的
Married life was not as idyllic as he had imagined.
婚姻生活并不像他想象的那么浪漫美好 。
10.preserve vt.保护;保持
The park was created to preserve some of the forests upstate.
这个公园是为了保护该州最北部地区的一些森林而建的 。
内容解析
1.The visitors seem happy to knock on the wooden houses to see if it is real wood. If you are the resident of that house, that is not pleasant, of course.
knock on敲击
He went up the garden path to knock on the door.
他穿过花园小径去敲门 。
2.The rules include not photographing residents without permission, not strolling into their gardens and not dropping litter.
without permission未经许可;[法] 未经许可
They cannot leave the country without permission.
他们不能擅自离开该国家 。
参考翻译
外出旅游,悠闲地徜徉在古老的村庄和小镇,欣赏美景是一件非常惬意的事情,但是对当地居民来说,他们也觉得同样开心吗?居住在阿姆斯特丹城外“老荷兰区”的村民接待了太多游客,他们在街道上走来走去,旅游团的扩音器扰乱了平静
。他们与当地旅游公司一起制定了游客行为准则 。这些准则包括,未经许可不要给当地居民拍照,不要走进他们的花园,不要乱丢垃圾 。新的行为准则是为了应对该地区不断增长的受欢迎度 。旅游业蓬勃发展,未来十年,旅游业预期将增长50% 。老荷兰区是一个田园诗般的地方,重现了过去时代荷兰人的生活画面
。到处都有风车,当地人生活在保存完好的,传统的木屋里 。当地居民Peter-Jan van Steenbergen告诉荷兰报纸Het Parool,Zaanse Schans村就像一个露天的音乐馆 。他说:“我跟一个早上打开窗帘,看着9名业余摄影师镜头的居民聊了一下 。”他补充说:“游客们看上去非常喜欢敲一下木屋,看一下是不是实木的 。如果你是房屋的主任,当然会不开心 。”他说,游客导致的公共汽车超载是最让人讨厌的 。