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Xiaohua: Hello and welcome to Roundtable’s Word of the Week. This week we are going to be joined by Mark when well be talking about different kinds of accommodations.
Mark: That’s right. I mean the range of accommodation is so vast, really. It goes all the way from tents right up to perhaps the most elaborated hotel I think in Dubai, they have what they called seven-star hotel. And also we could talk about in Britain, for example, being accommodated at her majesty’s pleasure means you are in prison. That’s another kind of accommodation.
Xiaohua: I see. 大家在出去玩的时候有不同的居住方式可以选择，从船屋到七星酒店都可以。那我们今天就来说一说不同的住宿方式。
Let’s start with resort. I’m sure people who have the money would choose that. Basically it’ s a place which offers a variety of amenities apart from the hotel rooms themselves, so there will be swimming pools, game rooms, workout facilities, gyms, a lot of them together all in one place and possibly a bigger land area.
Mark: That’s right, with some resorts located on the beach, for example. And in fact, it’s possible to some resorts where you would pay one price to go to the resort, and you stay in the resort, you don’t even go into the local town.
Xioahua: 一般resort或者说是度假村，度假酒店这样的旅行方式就是你只住在一个地方，然后吃喝玩乐就全包了。
Mark: So from that all-encompassing location, the resort, there are other sorts of hotel. Let’s deal with that phrase first because hotel is the word that most travelers will encounter most often and it covers all sorts of places, and offers short-term overnight accommodation.
Xiaohua: hotel是最基本的，就是旅馆。
Mark: Slightly cheaper, though, would be a guest house or inn. A guest house is an inn, usually a pub or tavern, a cheaper kind of hotel.
Xiaohua: guest house和inn都比hotel，也就是旅馆，要便宜一些。而inn一般指的是跟酒吧相连的小旅馆。
Mark: Even cheaper, more affordable, is just a room in somebody’s house. This would be called a B&B, which means bed and breakfast. Usually these are family-run places, and the family themselves live in another part of the building. Some sort of breakfast is included with your overnight stay.
Xiaohua: B&B, bed and breakfast，跟guest house有点像，但是有可能更便宜一些，是指提供住宿，并提供早餐的小旅店。
Mark: The next one is a home exchange or house swap. This is probably the cheapest of all options because if it’s a house swap, it might not cost you anything at all. This is where you exchange your home for another home for a set time period. It’s often arranged through travel service or a club that you join.
Xiaohua: house swap或者说home exchange，换房旅行这样的方式也是受很多荷包比较紧张的年轻人的喜爱.
Mark: Travelers on a real budget might like to stay in the hostel. This consists of a shared room, sometimes it is a dormitory. There will be a shared bathroom. Anyone can rent this. You don’t have choice of roommates. Some hostels have private bedrooms as well or extra bathroom at additional price. And this is mostly used by young single travelers.
Xiaohua:跟house swap一样经济的一种方式就是青年旅店—hostel了。住过青年旅店的人就会知道经常是共用厕所和淋浴间，并且会有男女混住的情况出现。
Mark: And then we come on to an interesting one because it does cause some confusion - pension. Many of our listeners will know that pension is what retired people have. But if you travel to European countries like France or Germany, you will see this word pension over the top of one of these small hotels. It’s actually in French pronounced [pɑ̃sjɔ̃], but it looks like pension. So many British travelers with no knowledge of French think it may be a house where old people live, you know, care home or something like that, which it isn’t. Pension is usually a family-run bed and breakfast often found in European countries.
Xiaohua: pension在这里可不是养老金或养老院的意思，而是指在欧洲国家，尤其是法国和德国所见到的一种B&B的形式，就是家庭旅馆的形式。
Mark: And another one. This word motel is made up of motor as in motorcar and hotel. So the rooms are usually opened onto a car park. As its name implies, they cater mostly for motorists. These are the ones you see in a lot of Hollywood movies, motel.
Xiaohua: motel是motor和hotel的合成词，当然也就是汽车旅馆的意思。Usually these motels are not in very good condition and are where usually crimes happen.
Mark: If you watch a lot of Hollywood movies and TV shows...It’s true.
Xiaohua: And that’s all the time we have for this week’s Roundtable’s Word of the Week.
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