2023考研英語(yǔ)閱讀迷途羔羊
Disorientation
迷途羔羊
Two luxury hotel chains will not be checking intogether
兩家奢侈連鎖酒店將無(wú)法一同騰飛
INDIA and Orient-Express have never rubbed along.
印度和Orient-Express酒店一直很融洽。
The luxury hotel firm s buccaneering founder, James Sherwood, visited the country in theearly 1990s and had a nightmare.
James Sherwood在20世紀(jì)90年代早期游玩過(guò)印度，投機(jī)性地建立了這家奢侈酒店，也經(jīng)歷了一場(chǎng)噩夢(mèng)。
His private jet was delayed for an age in Mumbai while officials checked that the bottles in itson-board bar were sealed correctly.
當(dāng)時(shí)地方官員檢查他私人飛機(jī)上酒吧的酒瓶是否正確密封花了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間，導(dǎo)致航班在孟買延誤了很久。
He signed a deal to run the Lake Palace Hotel in Rajasthan, owned by local royalty.
在此期間，他簽了一份經(jīng)營(yíng)碧河皇宮酒店的協(xié)議，這家酒店位于拉賈斯坦邦，所有權(quán)歸當(dāng)?shù)刭F族。
The deal collapsed when lawyersdiscovered that Mr Sherwood s interlocutor was not the real Maharana of Udaipur, but hisbrother.
但協(xié)議很快終止了，律師發(fā)現(xiàn)Sherwood的合作者不是真正的烏代浦爾的王公貴族，他的哥哥才是。
TheLakePalacewas run then, and still is, by Taj Hotels.
隨后，泰姬陵酒店將碧河皇宮酒店一直運(yùn)營(yíng)到現(xiàn)在。
It is part of Tata Sons,India s biggest conglomerate.
它現(xiàn)在是印度最大的企業(yè)塔塔之子旗下的產(chǎn)業(yè)。
For the past half-decade Taj has fantasised about swallowing its American-listed rival.
過(guò)去五年里，泰姬陵酒店一直幻想著吞并這位美國(guó)的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。
In 2007 it took a stake in Orient; it owns 6.9% today.
2007年，它入股Orient酒店，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)有6.9%的股份了。
In 2023 it made a takeover bid valuing Orient s equity at 1.3 billion.
2023年，泰姬陵酒店采取了收購(gòu)行動(dòng)，想以13億美元購(gòu)買Orient酒店的資產(chǎn)。
Orient dismissed this as one of its guests might a bell hop, arguing it was too low. OnNovember 8th the Indian firm abandoned its pursuit.
Orient酒店就像一位客人拒絕門童那樣拒絕了這次收購(gòu)，宣稱價(jià)格太低。11月8號(hào)，這家印度企業(yè)終止了收購(gòu)行動(dòng)。
Orient has 45 trophy properties including the Hotel Cipriani inVeniceandtheCopacabanaPalaceinRio de Janeiro.
Orient酒店有45家著名產(chǎn)業(yè)，其中包括威尼斯西普利亞尼賓館和里約熱內(nèi)盧科帕卡巴納沙灘酒店。
Most were acquired after years of negotiation by Mr Sherwood, who retired as chairman in2007.
大部分產(chǎn)業(yè)都是Sherwood花費(fèi)了數(shù)年時(shí)間談判獲得的，他也于2007年從主席位置退休。
A glorious symbol of extravagance, the firm entered the global financial crisis with toomuch debt.
Orient鋪張浪費(fèi)的光榮象征導(dǎo)致它帶著巨大債務(wù)卷入了全球金融危機(jī)里。
As profits collapsed it barely survived and its market capitalisation dropped to 144m at thelow point.
隨著盈利巨跌，它只能勉強(qiáng)維持經(jīng)營(yíng)，市場(chǎng)資本也跌至1.44億美元的低位。
Since then it has been groping its way back to financial health.
從那以后，它就一直探索讓它恢復(fù)金融常態(tài)的方法。
The Taj bid speeded that process.
泰姬陵酒店對(duì)它的收購(gòu)加快了這一進(jìn)程。
Days after it was made in October 2023, Orient appointed a new boss, John Scott.
僅在泰姬陵酒店2023年10月份做出收購(gòu)決定的幾天后，Orient認(rèn)命了一位新總裁，John Scott。
The firm has cut costs and sold assets.
隨后公司削減開(kāi)支，變賣資產(chǎn)。
Its market capitalisation has recovered smartly to 1.5 billionabove the Taj bid, althoughsome way off the 2.7 billion valuation it enjoyed at the peak.
市場(chǎng)資本漂亮地恢復(fù)到15億美元，盡管離它27億美元的頂峰時(shí)期價(jià)值還有一段距離，但還是高于泰姬陵酒店的提價(jià)。
For Taj life has got harder.
泰姬陵酒店的生意也不好做。
It is now the smaller of the two firms, with a market cap of only 600m, from a peak of 2.6billion.
現(xiàn)在它是兩家企業(yè)中較弱的一方，市場(chǎng)資本只有6億美元，遠(yuǎn)遜于頂峰26億。
It is losing money and is almost as leveraged as Orient was at its nadir, measured by netdebt relative to gross operating profits.
通過(guò)計(jì)算與總營(yíng)業(yè)額相關(guān)的凈資產(chǎn)判斷，泰姬陵酒店一直在虧損財(cái)力，和Orient處于低谷時(shí)期幾乎一樣受到杠桿作用影響。
The boom inIndiahas faded.
印度的繁榮已經(jīng)衰落。
Intense competition from global chains has lowered room rates.
全球連鎖酒店業(yè)激烈的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)降低了房間價(jià)格。
Taj s adventures inAmericait owns The Pierre inNew York, for examplehave also strainedits finances.
以紐約的皮埃爾酒店為例子它是泰姬陵酒店在美國(guó)投資的公司，也在縮小規(guī)模。
Taj could not have made the 2023 bid without help from its parent group.
2023年的那項(xiàng)收購(gòu)計(jì)劃，沒(méi)有背后主公司的幫助，泰姬陵酒店是無(wú)法提出的。
It also roped in a minority partner, a fund linked to Luca di Montezemolo, the chairman ofFerrari.
它也游說(shuō)到了一個(gè)少數(shù)派合作伙伴給它供應(yīng)資金法拉利公司的主席盧卡迪蒙特澤莫羅。
Perhaps Tata s new boss, Cyrus Mistry, who took over from the patriarch Ratan Tata at theend of 2023, has taken a tougher stance.
在2023年年底從元老Ratan Tata那接手塔塔之子集團(tuán)，成為了新老板的Cyrus Mistry可能已經(jīng)采取了更加強(qiáng)硬地立場(chǎng)。
About two-thirds of the capital employed in the wider Tata group is making a post-tax returnon capital of 10% or less, according to calculations by The Economist.
根據(jù)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人的計(jì)算，塔塔之子集團(tuán)內(nèi)2/3的資本在稅后的資本返還率為10%或者更少。
Taj hotels is a small part of this underperformance but Mr Mistry may have insisted that itgets its own house in order before it does any more empire-building.
泰姬陵酒店只是塔塔集團(tuán)弱勢(shì)股的一小部分，在Mistry進(jìn)行構(gòu)建更大的商業(yè)帝國(guó)前，他可能還會(huì)堅(jiān)持讓它管理好它自己的房產(chǎn)。
Just as Taj s problem may in part have been a forgiving controlling shareholder, Orient hasalso been insulated from shareholders wrath.
正如泰姬陵酒店出現(xiàn)的問(wèn)題一部分是出自寬容的有控制權(quán)的股東身上，Orient酒店卻和股東的怒火不沾邊。
Its B shares act as a poison-pill structure that puts voting control in the hands of the firm,not its owners.
它的B級(jí)股票就像一片毒藥，把投票權(quán)給公司，而不是給擁有者。
As both firms have battled the business climate and each other, they have missed ahalf-decade of change in the industry.
兩家公司都在和商業(yè)環(huán)境作斗爭(zhēng)，互相之間也在做斗爭(zhēng)，它們很盼望像工業(yè)五年變革的一場(chǎng)改變。
Global hoteliers such as Starwood and InterContinental have performed far better.
像Starwood和InterContinental這樣的全球酒店運(yùn)營(yíng)商的經(jīng)營(yíng)就遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)好于它們。
They have asset light business models, in which they merely manage hotels rather thanowning them.
運(yùn)營(yíng)商們有一套輕資產(chǎn)上陣的商業(yè)模式，這樣運(yùn)營(yíng)商只用管理酒店而不是擁有它們。
They have multiple brands aimed at different kinds of customers.
針對(duì)不同的消費(fèi)者們，他們也有多種品牌策略。
Taj has experimented with this approach but has been timid, and Orient-Express is still anold-school affair.
泰姬陵酒店也嘗試過(guò)這種方法，但是尺度很小，Orient-Express卻還是一副老學(xué)究作態(tài)。
Both hotel groups specialise in historic buildings that are lovingly maintained.
兩家酒店集團(tuán)專門經(jīng)營(yíng)被小心保存的歷史建筑。
Both need to do more to avoid becoming ancient monuments themselves.
但是兩家酒店都需要做的更多，避免像這些歷史建筑一樣成為遠(yuǎn)古遺跡。
詞語(yǔ)解釋
1.check in 記錄，登記簽到
Can I check in here?
我能在這里辦理登機(jī)手續(xù)嗎?
Where can I check in?
在哪里辦理登機(jī)手續(xù)?
2.low point 低點(diǎn)
The population density reached a low point in 1650.
1650年，當(dāng)?shù)厝丝诿芏冉档綒v史低點(diǎn)。
This year marked a low point for berlusconi.
這年是貝盧斯科尼的最低點(diǎn)。
3.link to 與連接，聯(lián)系
Just send them a link to the google docs file.
只需給他們一個(gè)google docs的文件鏈接。
Each sentence is followed by a link to the source.
每個(gè)語(yǔ)句后面還包括了它們的出處的鏈接。
4.according to 根據(jù)，按照;據(jù)所說(shuō)
Again this is according to recently declassified information.
這也還是根據(jù)最近解密的信息得知的。
It did not go according to plan.
這個(gè)妥協(xié)方案并沒(méi)有按計(jì)劃執(zhí)行。
Disorientation
迷途羔羊
Two luxury hotel chains will not be checking intogether
兩家奢侈連鎖酒店將無(wú)法一同騰飛
INDIA and Orient-Express have never rubbed along.
印度和Orient-Express酒店一直很融洽。
The luxury hotel firm s buccaneering founder, James Sherwood, visited the country in theearly 1990s and had a nightmare.
James Sherwood在20世紀(jì)90年代早期游玩過(guò)印度，投機(jī)性地建立了這家奢侈酒店，也經(jīng)歷了一場(chǎng)噩夢(mèng)。
His private jet was delayed for an age in Mumbai while officials checked that the bottles in itson-board bar were sealed correctly.
當(dāng)時(shí)地方官員檢查他私人飛機(jī)上酒吧的酒瓶是否正確密封花了很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間，導(dǎo)致航班在孟買延誤了很久。
He signed a deal to run the Lake Palace Hotel in Rajasthan, owned by local royalty.
在此期間，他簽了一份經(jīng)營(yíng)碧河皇宮酒店的協(xié)議，這家酒店位于拉賈斯坦邦，所有權(quán)歸當(dāng)?shù)刭F族。
The deal collapsed when lawyersdiscovered that Mr Sherwood s interlocutor was not the real Maharana of Udaipur, but hisbrother.
但協(xié)議很快終止了，律師發(fā)現(xiàn)Sherwood的合作者不是真正的烏代浦爾的王公貴族，他的哥哥才是。
TheLakePalacewas run then, and still is, by Taj Hotels.
隨后，泰姬陵酒店將碧河皇宮酒店一直運(yùn)營(yíng)到現(xiàn)在。
It is part of Tata Sons,India s biggest conglomerate.
它現(xiàn)在是印度最大的企業(yè)塔塔之子旗下的產(chǎn)業(yè)。
For the past half-decade Taj has fantasised about swallowing its American-listed rival.
過(guò)去五年里，泰姬陵酒店一直幻想著吞并這位美國(guó)的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。
In 2007 it took a stake in Orient; it owns 6.9% today.
2007年，它入股Orient酒店，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)有6.9%的股份了。
In 2023 it made a takeover bid valuing Orient s equity at 1.3 billion.
2023年，泰姬陵酒店采取了收購(gòu)行動(dòng)，想以13億美元購(gòu)買Orient酒店的資產(chǎn)。
Orient dismissed this as one of its guests might a bell hop, arguing it was too low. OnNovember 8th the Indian firm abandoned its pursuit.
Orient酒店就像一位客人拒絕門童那樣拒絕了這次收購(gòu)，宣稱價(jià)格太低。11月8號(hào)，這家印度企業(yè)終止了收購(gòu)行動(dòng)。
Orient has 45 trophy properties including the Hotel Cipriani inVeniceandtheCopacabanaPalaceinRio de Janeiro.
Orient酒店有45家著名產(chǎn)業(yè)，其中包括威尼斯西普利亞尼賓館和里約熱內(nèi)盧科帕卡巴納沙灘酒店。
Most were acquired after years of negotiation by Mr Sherwood, who retired as chairman in2007.
大部分產(chǎn)業(yè)都是Sherwood花費(fèi)了數(shù)年時(shí)間談判獲得的，他也于2007年從主席位置退休。
A glorious symbol of extravagance, the firm entered the global financial crisis with toomuch debt.
Orient鋪張浪費(fèi)的光榮象征導(dǎo)致它帶著巨大債務(wù)卷入了全球金融危機(jī)里。
As profits collapsed it barely survived and its market capitalisation dropped to 144m at thelow point.
隨著盈利巨跌，它只能勉強(qiáng)維持經(jīng)營(yíng)，市場(chǎng)資本也跌至1.44億美元的低位。
Since then it has been groping its way back to financial health.
從那以后，它就一直探索讓它恢復(fù)金融常態(tài)的方法。
The Taj bid speeded that process.
泰姬陵酒店對(duì)它的收購(gòu)加快了這一進(jìn)程。
Days after it was made in October 2023, Orient appointed a new boss, John Scott.
僅在泰姬陵酒店2023年10月份做出收購(gòu)決定的幾天后，Orient認(rèn)命了一位新總裁，John Scott。
The firm has cut costs and sold assets.
隨后公司削減開(kāi)支，變賣資產(chǎn)。
Its market capitalisation has recovered smartly to 1.5 billionabove the Taj bid, althoughsome way off the 2.7 billion valuation it enjoyed at the peak.
市場(chǎng)資本漂亮地恢復(fù)到15億美元，盡管離它27億美元的頂峰時(shí)期價(jià)值還有一段距離，但還是高于泰姬陵酒店的提價(jià)。
For Taj life has got harder.
泰姬陵酒店的生意也不好做。
It is now the smaller of the two firms, with a market cap of only 600m, from a peak of 2.6billion.
現(xiàn)在它是兩家企業(yè)中較弱的一方，市場(chǎng)資本只有6億美元，遠(yuǎn)遜于頂峰26億。
It is losing money and is almost as leveraged as Orient was at its nadir, measured by netdebt relative to gross operating profits.
通過(guò)計(jì)算與總營(yíng)業(yè)額相關(guān)的凈資產(chǎn)判斷，泰姬陵酒店一直在虧損財(cái)力，和Orient處于低谷時(shí)期幾乎一樣受到杠桿作用影響。
The boom inIndiahas faded.
印度的繁榮已經(jīng)衰落。
Intense competition from global chains has lowered room rates.
全球連鎖酒店業(yè)激烈的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)降低了房間價(jià)格。
Taj s adventures inAmericait owns The Pierre inNew York, for examplehave also strainedits finances.
以紐約的皮埃爾酒店為例子它是泰姬陵酒店在美國(guó)投資的公司，也在縮小規(guī)模。
Taj could not have made the 2023 bid without help from its parent group.
2023年的那項(xiàng)收購(gòu)計(jì)劃，沒(méi)有背后主公司的幫助，泰姬陵酒店是無(wú)法提出的。
It also roped in a minority partner, a fund linked to Luca di Montezemolo, the chairman ofFerrari.
它也游說(shuō)到了一個(gè)少數(shù)派合作伙伴給它供應(yīng)資金法拉利公司的主席盧卡迪蒙特澤莫羅。
Perhaps Tata s new boss, Cyrus Mistry, who took over from the patriarch Ratan Tata at theend of 2023, has taken a tougher stance.
在2023年年底從元老Ratan Tata那接手塔塔之子集團(tuán)，成為了新老板的Cyrus Mistry可能已經(jīng)采取了更加強(qiáng)硬地立場(chǎng)。
About two-thirds of the capital employed in the wider Tata group is making a post-tax returnon capital of 10% or less, according to calculations by The Economist.
根據(jù)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人的計(jì)算，塔塔之子集團(tuán)內(nèi)2/3的資本在稅后的資本返還率為10%或者更少。
Taj hotels is a small part of this underperformance but Mr Mistry may have insisted that itgets its own house in order before it does any more empire-building.
泰姬陵酒店只是塔塔集團(tuán)弱勢(shì)股的一小部分，在Mistry進(jìn)行構(gòu)建更大的商業(yè)帝國(guó)前，他可能還會(huì)堅(jiān)持讓它管理好它自己的房產(chǎn)。
Just as Taj s problem may in part have been a forgiving controlling shareholder, Orient hasalso been insulated from shareholders wrath.
正如泰姬陵酒店出現(xiàn)的問(wèn)題一部分是出自寬容的有控制權(quán)的股東身上，Orient酒店卻和股東的怒火不沾邊。
Its B shares act as a poison-pill structure that puts voting control in the hands of the firm,not its owners.
它的B級(jí)股票就像一片毒藥，把投票權(quán)給公司，而不是給擁有者。
As both firms have battled the business climate and each other, they have missed ahalf-decade of change in the industry.
兩家公司都在和商業(yè)環(huán)境作斗爭(zhēng)，互相之間也在做斗爭(zhēng)，它們很盼望像工業(yè)五年變革的一場(chǎng)改變。
Global hoteliers such as Starwood and InterContinental have performed far better.
像Starwood和InterContinental這樣的全球酒店運(yùn)營(yíng)商的經(jīng)營(yíng)就遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)好于它們。
They have asset light business models, in which they merely manage hotels rather thanowning them.
運(yùn)營(yíng)商們有一套輕資產(chǎn)上陣的商業(yè)模式，這樣運(yùn)營(yíng)商只用管理酒店而不是擁有它們。
They have multiple brands aimed at different kinds of customers.
針對(duì)不同的消費(fèi)者們，他們也有多種品牌策略。
Taj has experimented with this approach but has been timid, and Orient-Express is still anold-school affair.
泰姬陵酒店也嘗試過(guò)這種方法，但是尺度很小，Orient-Express卻還是一副老學(xué)究作態(tài)。
Both hotel groups specialise in historic buildings that are lovingly maintained.
兩家酒店集團(tuán)專門經(jīng)營(yíng)被小心保存的歷史建筑。
Both need to do more to avoid becoming ancient monuments themselves.
但是兩家酒店都需要做的更多，避免像這些歷史建筑一樣成為遠(yuǎn)古遺跡。
詞語(yǔ)解釋
1.check in 記錄，登記簽到
Can I check in here?
我能在這里辦理登機(jī)手續(xù)嗎?
Where can I check in?
在哪里辦理登機(jī)手續(xù)?
2.low point 低點(diǎn)
The population density reached a low point in 1650.
1650年，當(dāng)?shù)厝丝诿芏冉档綒v史低點(diǎn)。
This year marked a low point for berlusconi.
這年是貝盧斯科尼的最低點(diǎn)。
3.link to 與連接，聯(lián)系
Just send them a link to the google docs file.
只需給他們一個(gè)google docs的文件鏈接。
Each sentence is followed by a link to the source.
每個(gè)語(yǔ)句后面還包括了它們的出處的鏈接。
4.according to 根據(jù)，按照;據(jù)所說(shuō)
Again this is according to recently declassified information.
這也還是根據(jù)最近解密的信息得知的。
It did not go according to plan.
這個(gè)妥協(xié)方案并沒(méi)有按計(jì)劃執(zhí)行。
