1997年3月上海市高級口譯筆試真題
時間:2005-10-4 0:05:59 作者:alex
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The rise of tourist traffic has brought the relatively recent phenomenon of the tourist attraction pure and simple. It often has no purpose but to attract in the interest of the owner or of the nation. As we might expect, this use of the word "attraction" as "a thing or feature which `draws' people, especially any interesting or amusing exhibition" dates only from about 1862. It is a new species: the most attenuated form of a nation's culture. All over the world now we find these "attractions"--of little significance for the inward life of a people, but wonderfully saleable as tourist commodities: Examples are Madame Tussaud's exhibition of was figures in London (she first became known for her modelled heads of the leaders and victims of the French Revolution) and the Tiger Balm Gardens in Hong Kong; Disneyland in California--the American "attraction" which tourist Khrushchev most wanted to see--is the example to end all examples. Here indeed Nature imitates Art. The visitor to Disneyland encounters not the two-dimensional comic strip of movie originals, but only their three-dimensional facsimiles.
Tourist attractions serve their purpose best when they are pseudo-events. To be repeatable at will, they must be factitious. Emphasis on the artificial comes from the ruthless truthfulness of tourist agents. What they can really guarantee you are not spontaneous cultural products but only those made especially for tourist consumpiton, for foreign cash customers. Not only in Mexico City and Montreal, but also in the remote Guatemalan tourist Mecca of Chichecastenango and in far-off villages of Japan, earnest honest natives embellish their ancient rites, change, enlarge, and spectacularize their festivals, so that tourists will not be disappointed. In order to satisfy the exaggerated expectations of tour agents and tourists, people everywhere obligingly become dishonest mimics of themselves. To provide a full schedule of events at the best seasons and at convenient hours, they travesty their most solemn rituals, holidays, and folk celebrations--all for the benefit of the tourists.
In Berlin, in the days before the First World War, legend tells us that precisely at the stroke of noon, just as the imperial military band would begin its daily concert in front of the Imperial Palace, Kaiser Wilhelm used to interrupt whatever he was doing inside the palace. If he was in a council of state he would say: "With your kind forbearance, gentlemen, I must excuse myself now, to appear at the window. You see, it says in Baedeker that at this hour I always do."
Modern tourist guide-books have helped to raise tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives--from Kaiser Wilhelm down to raise tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives--from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichecastenango--with a detailed and ite
Question 1~5
The rise of tourist traffic has brought the relatively recent phenomenon of the tourist attraction pure and simple. It often has no purpose but to attract in the interest of the owner or of the nation. As we might expect, this use of the word "attraction" as "a thing or feature which `draws' people, especially any interesting or amusing exhibition" dates only from about 1862. It is a new species: the most attenuated form of a nation's culture. All over the world now we find these "attractions"--of little significance for the inward life of a people, but wonderfully saleable as tourist commodities: Examples are Madame Tussaud's exhibition of was figures in London (she first became known for her modelled heads of the leaders and victims of the French Revolution) and the Tiger Balm Gardens in Hong Kong; Disneyland in California--the American "attraction" which tourist Khrushchev most wanted to see--is the example to end all examples. Here indeed Nature imitates Art. The visitor to Disneyland encounters not the two-dimensional comic strip of movie originals, but only their three-dimensional facsimiles.
Tourist attractions serve their purpose best when they are pseudo-events. To be repeatable at will, they must be factitious. Emphasis on the artificial comes from the ruthless truthfulness of tourist agents. What they can really guarantee you are not spontaneous cultural products but only those made especially for tourist consumpiton, for foreign cash customers. Not only in Mexico City and Montreal, but also in the remote Guatemalan tourist Mecca of Chichecastenango and in far-off villages of Japan, earnest honest natives embellish their ancient rites, change, enlarge, and spectacularize their festivals, so that tourists will not be disappointed. In order to satisfy the exaggerated expectations of tour agents and tourists, people everywhere obligingly become dishonest mimics of themselves. To provide a full schedule of events at the best seasons and at convenient hours, they travesty their most solemn rituals, holidays, and folk celebrations--all for the benefit of the tourists.
In Berlin, in the days before the First World War, legend tells us that precisely at the stroke of noon, just as the imperial military band would begin its daily concert in front of the Imperial Palace, Kaiser Wilhelm used to interrupt whatever he was doing inside the palace. If he was in a council of state he would say: "With your kind forbearance, gentlemen, I must excuse myself now, to appear at the window. You see, it says in Baedeker that at this hour I always do."
Modern tourist guide-books have helped to raise tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives--from Kaiser Wilhelm down to raise tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives--from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichecastenango--with a detailed and ite
