2022考研英語(yǔ)時(shí)事閱讀：旅游巨頭公司破產(chǎn)

　　旅游巨頭公司破產(chǎn)

　　Thomas Cook, a 178-year-old British travel company and airline, declared bankruptcy earlyMonday morning, suspending operations and leaving hundreds of thousands of tourists strandedaround the world.

　　擁有178年歷史的英國(guó)旅游及航空公司托馬斯庫(kù)克本周一(9月23日)凌晨宣布破產(chǎn)，暫停運(yùn)營(yíng)，導(dǎo)致數(shù)十萬(wàn)游客滯留在世界各地。

　　The travel company operates its own airline, with a fleet of nearly 50 medium- and long-rangejets, and owns several smaller airlines and subsidiaries, including the German carrier Condor. Thomas Cook still had several flights in the air as of Sunday night but was expected to ceaseoperations once they landed at their destinations.

　　這家旅游公司旗下的航空公司有近50架中遠(yuǎn)程噴氣式飛機(jī)，并擁有數(shù)家規(guī)模較小的航空公司和子公司，其中包括德國(guó)禿鷹航空。截至上周日晚間，托馬斯庫(kù)克仍有幾架航班在空中飛行，但預(yù)計(jì)一旦飛機(jī)抵達(dá)目的地，就會(huì)停飛。

　　Condor posted a message to its site late Sunday night saying that it was still operating but thatit was unclear whether that would change. Condor's scheduled Monday-morning flightsappeared to be operating normally.

　　禿鷹航空周日晚間在其網(wǎng)站上發(fā)布消息稱，公司仍在運(yùn)營(yíng)，但尚不清楚是否會(huì)有變化。禿鷹航空本周一上午的預(yù)定航班似乎運(yùn)行正常。

　　About 600,000 Thomas Cook customers were traveling at the time of the collapse, of whom150,000 were British, the company told CNN.

　　托馬斯庫(kù)克公司告訴美國(guó)有線新聞網(wǎng)說(shuō)，公司倒閉時(shí)，大約有60萬(wàn)名客戶在旅行途中，其中15萬(wàn)是英國(guó)人。

　　The British Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority prepared plans, under thecode name "Operation Matterhorn," to repatriate stranded British passengers. According tothe British aviation authority, those rescue flights would take place until October 6, leading tothe possibility that travelers could be delayed for up to two weeks.

　　英國(guó)交通部和民航局制定了代號(hào)為“馬特洪恩行動(dòng)”的計(jì)劃，將滯留的英國(guó)乘客送回國(guó)。英國(guó)民航局表示，這些救援航班將持續(xù)運(yùn)行到10月6日，這可能會(huì)導(dǎo)致乘客被延誤至多兩周。

　　Initial rescue flights seemed poised to begin immediately, with stranded passengers postingon Twitter that they were being delayed only a few hours as they awaited chartered flights.

　　第一批救援航班似乎很快就起飛了，被困乘客發(fā)推文稱，他們?cè)诘却鼨C(jī)時(shí)，只被延誤了幾個(gè)小時(shí)。

　　The scale of the task has reports calling it the largest peacetime repatriation effort in Britishhistory, including the operation the government carried out when Monarch Airlines collapsed in2017.

　　有報(bào)道稱，這是英國(guó)歷史上規(guī)模最大的和平時(shí)期遣送行動(dòng)，比2017年君主航空公司倒閉時(shí)實(shí)施的政府行動(dòng)規(guī)模更大。

　　Costs of the flights were expected to be covered by the ATOL, or Air Travel Organiser's License, protection plan, a fund that provides for repatriation of British travelers if an airline ceasesoperations.

　　這些航班的費(fèi)用預(yù)計(jì)將由ATOL(航空旅行組織者許可證)保護(hù)計(jì)劃承擔(dān)。如果一家航空公司停止運(yùn)營(yíng)，該基金將為英國(guó)游客提供遣送服務(wù)。

　　Airplanes from British Airways and easyJet would be among those transporting strandedpassengers home, according to The Guardian, as well as chartered planes from leasingcompanies and other airlines. Thomas Cook Airlines' destinations included parts of mainlandEurope, Africa, the US, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Airplanes were being flown to thosedestinations on Sunday night, according to the BBC.

　　據(jù)《衛(wèi)報(bào)》報(bào)道，英國(guó)航空公司和易捷航空公司的飛機(jī)，以及租賃公司和其他航空公司的包機(jī)，都將參與運(yùn)送被困乘客返回英國(guó)。托馬斯庫(kù)克航空公司的目的地包括歐洲大陸部分地區(qū)、非洲、美國(guó)、加勒比海地區(qū)和中東。據(jù)英國(guó)廣播公司報(bào)道，上周日晚上，救援飛機(jī)被派往這些目的地。

　　The company was still selling tickets until Sunday night in the UK.

　　直到上周日晚上，該公司還在英國(guó)售票。

　　One Plymouth, England-based traveler who had booked a vacation to the Greek island ofZakynthos for August 2020 told Business Insider that she saw Thomas Cook had charged hermore than ￡600 by direct debit on Sunday afternoon for the trip but that she was not due to becharged until Thursday. It was unclear whether she would be able to recoup the funds withthe bankruptcy declaration.

　　一位來(lái)自英國(guó)普利茅斯的旅行者在托馬斯庫(kù)克公司預(yù)訂了2020年8月去希臘扎金索斯島度假的行程，她告訴商業(yè)內(nèi)幕網(wǎng)說(shuō)，她發(fā)現(xiàn)該公司在上周日下午直接扣款了600多英鎊(約合人民幣5310元)，而她本應(yīng)在本周四再支付這筆款項(xiàng)。目前還不清楚她是否能夠通過(guò)破產(chǎn)聲明要回這筆錢。

　　Thomas Cook, as well as a union representing some of its 9,000 UK employees, had sought anemergency funding plan from the British government. Government sources, however, "hadquestioned the financial wisdom of stepping in to save the company," according to the BBC. Thecompany employs 21,000 globally.

　　托馬斯庫(kù)克以及代表其9000名英國(guó)雇員中部分員工的工會(huì)已向英國(guó)政府尋求一項(xiàng)緊急融資計(jì)劃。然而，據(jù)英國(guó)廣播公司報(bào)道，政府消息人士“對(duì)介入拯救該公司的想法提出了質(zhì)疑”。該公司在全球擁有2.1萬(wàn)名員工。

　　While Thomas Cook managed to recover from a risk of insolvency in 2011, it continued to beheld back by lingering debts. It also suffered by lower demand over the past two summer travelseasons, as major heat waves led many Britons to stay home. Brexit uncertainties and a weakpound also contributed, according to The Telegraph.

　　盡管托馬斯庫(kù)克在2011年成功地從破產(chǎn)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)中復(fù)蘇，但它仍受到揮之不去的債務(wù)拖累。在過(guò)去的兩個(gè)夏季旅游季節(jié)里，由于猛烈的熱浪導(dǎo)致許多英國(guó)人呆在家里，公司也受到旅游需求下降的影響。據(jù)《每日電訊報(bào)》報(bào)道，英國(guó)脫歐的不確定性和英鎊疲軟也起到了推波助瀾的作用。