讲解人 · Natasha
原文
Yet a continuing dispute over the buses that take visitors up to the mountain-top site recently saw some 1, 400 stranded tourists needing to be evacuated.
For the past 30 years, bus company Consettur has transported some 4, 500 people every day to Machu Picchu from the local town of Aguas Calientes.
It is a 20-minute bus journey, and a round-trip bus ticket costs $24 for a foreigner and $15 for a Peruvian.
To get to Machu Picchu without walking, tourists must first take a train to Aguas Calientes.
And then transfer to a bus for the final leg.
Back in September, local protestors, angry that Consettur was being replaced following what they saw as an insufficiently open bidding process, blocked the railway line to Aguas Calientes with rocks.
This resulted in Peruvian authorities having to clear the tracks and evacuate tourists on special train services.
A number of local people, who didn’t want to go on the record, say the protestors were unhappy that Consettur had a monopoly on the lucrative bus service, and that its position as sole provider was simply due to be transferred to a new company.
It’s a complex situation, involving people from different local communities wanting a slice of the bus income.
But the head of operations for Consettur is adamant that Consettur is not a monopoly.
“Consettur is made up of 12 different companies with various partners, “ he says.
These partners include the local district council, which owns 38% of Consettur.
Carlos González, the president of the Chamber of Tourism for this region of Peru, wants to see more state oversight of public transport in Peru.
He says, “If we don’t have a unified approach to Peru as a destination, we can’t be competitive in the long term.”
带着问题听讲解
- 文中 stranded 一词是什么意思？
- 当地抗议者通过什么方式表达了不满？
- 此次巴士纠纷对游客造成的直接影响是什么？
讲解
重点词汇
row
/raʊ/
n. 争吵，纠纷；一排，一行
- 拓展发音：/roʊ/
- 搭配短语：sit in the front/back row
搭配短语：a political row over government policy搭配短语：have a row with sb近义词：quarrel
dispute
/dɪˈspjuːt/
n. 争执，争端，纠纷
- 英文释义：a serious argument or disagreement搭配短语：dispute over
- 搭配短语：a dispute over a territory
搭配短语：beyond dispute搭配短语：open to dispute词性拓展：dispute（v. 争论；表示异议）- 例句：The issue remains hotly disputed.
- 搭配短语：to dispute a decision/claim
strand
/strænd/
v. 使滞留，使搁浅
- 词性拓展：strand（n. 股，缕；部分，方面）
- 搭配短语：a strand of hair/cable
- 例句：He draws all the strands of the argument together.
例句：The ship was stranded on a sandbank.例句：The climbers had been stranded by a storm.
evacuate
/ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/
v. 撤离，疏散；排泄
- 词根词缀：e-（向外）；-vacu-（空）；ate（动词后缀）
- 派生词：vacuum（真空）；vacant（空着的，未被占用）；vacation（假期）
英文释义：to make sth. empty or to empty out例句：Several families were evacuated from their homes.搭配短语：to evacuate the area相关词汇：evacuation（n. 撤离，撤出）- 搭配短语：the emergency evacuation
英文释义：to empty or evacuate your bowels
leg
/leɡ/
n. 阶段；腿
- 例句：The last leg of the race was Paris to London.例句：I'm stopping for coffee on the next leg of my journey.近义词：section；stage
insufficiently
/ˌɪn.səˈfɪʃ.ənt.li/
adv. 不足地，不充分地
- 相关词汇：sufficient（adj. 足够的，充足的）
- 近义词：enough
- 英文释义：If something is sufficient, it has met or satisfied a need.
- 搭配短语：sufficient for
- 例句：His income is sufficient for his family's needs.
- 搭配短语：sufficient to do
- 例句：The money is not sufficient to cover everything.
相关词汇：self-sufficient（adj. 自给自足的）- 例句：The country is totally self-sufficient in food production.
- 近义词：self-contained
相关词汇：insufficient（adj. 不足够的，不充足的）
go on the record
公开发表意见；正式表态
- 例句：Very few officials were willing to go on the record about the scandal.相关词汇：on the record
- 反义词：off the record
相关词汇：confidential（adj. 机密的，保密的）- 例句：Patients' medical records are strictly confidential.
monopoly
/məˈnɑː.pəl.i/
n. 垄断；专卖
- 文化补充：Monopoly 即为著名桌游《大富翁》词根词缀：mono-（单一的，单个的）；poly（卖）
- 派生词：monologue（独白）
搭配短语：have a monopoly on- 例句：The company had a monopoly on telephone services.
- 例句：You don't have a monopoly on pain.
lucrative
/ˈluː.krə.tɪv/
adj. 赚钱的，盈利的
- 近义词：profitable搭配短语：a lucrative business例句：Some parents might want you to pursue a lucrative career.
sole
/soʊl/
adj. 唯一的，单一的
- 搭配短语：with the sole purpose of例句：She has sole responsibility for the project.近义词：only词性拓展：sole（n. 脚底；鞋底）
- 搭配短语：the soles of your feet/shoes
- 相关词汇：insole（n. 鞋垫）
want a slice
想分一杯羹
- 搭配短语：want a slice of the pie
adamant
/ˈæd.ə.mənt/
adj. 固执的；坚决的，坚定不移的
- 例句：She was adamant that she had seen him before.搭配短语：adamant about sth.近义词：very determined
chamber
/ˈtʃeɪm.bɚ/
n. 房间；议院
- 搭配短语：chamber of commerce（商会）搭配短语：echo chamber
- 相关词汇：information cocoon
oversight
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.saɪt/
n. 监督，监察；疏忽，疏漏
- 搭配短语：have oversight of
- 例句：The government has oversight of the market.
近义词：supervision词根词缀：over-（在上面）；sight（看）
unify
/ˈjuː.nə.faɪ/
v. 整合；统一
- 近义词：unite搭配短语：a unified system
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