Why Stay in a Youth Hostel? 国际青年旅舍
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- 发布于 2013年7月01日
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Traveling overseas is usually expensive, and hotel rooms can eat up a large part of one’s budget. However, staying somewhere on vacation doesn’t have to be costly. That’s where youth hostels come in. Generally, young backpackers occupy these small, inexpensive hotels. Owners traditionally made guests do chores during their stay, though many hostels no longer require this. German schoolteacher Richard Schirrmann created the first youth hostel in 1909 at his own school. He made the hostel because he wanted a cheap place for students to stay on class trips to the countryside.
海外旅游通常很花钱，而旅馆住宿会花掉大部分预算。不过，在假期中的住宿费臼不一定非得如此昂贵，而国际青年旅舍就是为此目的存在。普遍地，年轻背包客进住这些小巧、便宜的旅馆。按照以往传统，旅馆主人会要求房客在住宿期间做些家务杂事，不过现在许多青年旅舍已没有这样的要求。德国教师李查．席尔曼在1909年于自己的学校创立第一间青年旅舍，因为他想让到乡间进行班级旅行的学生们有个便宜的住所。
Since then, the Hostelling International (HI) organization has grown to regulate more than 4,000 hostels worldwide. About 1.6 billion overnights have been spent in the organization’s hostels so far. HI sees this as a success story for affordable international travel, and hopes that through cultural exchanges in the hostels the world will be pushed into a new era. Travelers who stay in hostels get a great chance to share their travel stories and different ways of thinking with people from other nations. For many, staying in a youth hostel is an experience they never forget.
此后，国际青年旅舍成长为管理超过四千家旅舍的组织。目前为止，约有10亿6千万个夜宿在青年旅舍度过。对于令人负担的起的国际旅行来说，青年旅舍将此视为一个成功故事，且希望透过旅行者们在青年旅舍的文化交流，能将这世界带到一个新的纪元。在青年旅舍住宿的旅行者可获得大好机会与来自不同国家的人们分享旅途故事，以及不一样的思考方式。对很多人来说，在青年旅舍的住宿经验是毕生难忘的。
－by Bryan Shettig
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Vocabulary
hostel [ˋhɑst!] n. 旅舍（尤其指青年旅舍）
Young travelers stay in hostels because they are cheaper than hotels.
overseas [ˋovɚˋsiz] adv. 在海外﹐在外国
Businessmen sometimes fly overseas to attend important meetings.
require [rɪˋkwaɪr] v. 要求
(require-required-required)
This restaurant requires people to pay right after ordering food.
billion [ˋbɪljən] n. 十亿
There are more than 7 billion people on Earth.
exchange [ɪksˋtʃendʒ] v. 交换
To improve their work, all the staff met to have an exchange of ideas.
experience [ɪkˋspɪrɪəns] n. 经验，体验
Someone who lacks work experience won't find a job easily.
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eat up 消耗; 用完
costly [ˋkɔstlɪ] adj. 昂贵的
occupy [ˋɑkjə͵paɪ] v. 占领，占据
inexpensive [͵ɪnɪkˋspɛnsɪv] adj. 花费不多的；价钱低廉的
regulate [ˋrɛgjə͵let] v. 管理
worldwide [ˋwɝld͵waɪd] adv. 在世界各地
affordable [əˋfɔrdəb!] adj. 负担得起的
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