经济学人:摄位车上进行的秘密活动游客们当心

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These brazen lawbreakers imperil the public by showing them around the nation's capital without a permit.
这些无耻的违法者扰乱公共秩序，在没有许可的情况下带领游客们参观这个国家的首都。

Your correspondent went undercover to observe at first hand the dangers tourists face in their clutches.
记者亲历地下世界去观察第一手游客们关键时刻面临的危险。

First, your correspondent had to balance on a Segway, a two-wheeled vehicle from which she could have fallen several inches to the cold, hard pavement.
首先，记者必须在摄位车上保持平衡，这种两轮电动车有让她从任何一边摔向冰冷坚硬的人行道上的可能性。

Mr Main never took the exam to become a tour guide, so your correspondent braced herself to hear a torrent of errors.
Main从未参加过成为导游的考试，因此记者准备好了听到一大串错误信息。

Would he claim that the White House was once destroyed by aliens, as in the film Independence Day?
他会说白宫曾被外星人摧毁过一次么，就像电影独立日中的场景那样？

That adds up: Segs in the City, the firm Mr Main runs with his wife, Tonia Edwards, employs a dozen guides.
还要加上：Main和太太Tonia Edwards运营的公司城市摄位车公司雇佣的大批导游。

The government cannot restrict speech unless there is evidence the speech is causing harm, he explains.
政府不能限制Main的言语除非有证据说他造成了伤害，他说道。

Mr McNamara helped Segs in the City file a lawsuit against the city government in 2010.
McNamara在2010年帮助城市摄位车旅游公司起诉了市政府。

In the 1950s only one American worker in 20 needed a permit from the government; today that figure is around one in three.
20世纪50年代政府平均20人中之批准了一位美国工人成为导游；今天数据到了大约三个过一个。

Such permits tend to cost hundreds of dollars and months of extra training, yet offer little benefit to consumers, says Morris Kleiner, an economist at the University of Minnesota.
这种许可证需要花费数百美元和长达数月的额外培训，然而这对消费者来说受益甚微，明尼苏达大学的经济学家Morris Kleiner说。

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1.show around 领…参观

例句:Would you show me around?

可以带我参观一下吗？

2.tour guide 导游

例句:Service quality of a tour guide has always been the focus of controversy in the area of tourism service.

导游服务质量一直是旅游服务领域中争议的焦点。

3.such as 诸如;像

例句:And they tend to do so more dramatically in a dog-eat-dog sector such as the financial industry, says staw.

斯托教授认为，在像金融业这样弱肉强食的行当，这种现象尤为严重。

4.try to 尝试
例句:I think we should try to buy more time.

我想我们应该设法稽迟时间。

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