2010年高考英语全国卷2 - 阅读理解B

When you're lying on the white sands of the Mexican Riviera, the stresses of the world seem a million miles away. Hey, stop! This is no vacation－you have to finish something!
当你躺在墨西哥里维埃拉的白色沙滩上，世界上的压力仿佛已抛至九霄云外。嘿，停下来！这不是度假——你必须完成一些事情！

Here lies the problem for travel writer and food critic Edie Jarolim. "I always loved traveling and always liked to eat, but it never occurred to me that I could make money doing both of these things," Jarolim said. Now you can read her travel advice everywhere－in Arts and Antiques, in Brides, or in one of her three books, The Complete Idiot's Travel Guide to Mexico's Beach Resort.
这就是旅行作家和美食评论家伊迪·加罗利姆的问题所在。“我一直喜欢旅行，也一直喜欢吃东西，但我从来没有想过我可以通过这两种方式赚钱。”现在你在任何地方都可以读到她的旅行建议——《艺术和古董》（Arts and Antiques）、《新娘》（Brides）杂志或者她的三本书中的一本《墨西哥海滩度假胜地自助旅行指南》（The Complete Idiot's Travel Guide to Mexico's Beach Resort）。

Her job in travel writing began some eight years ago. After getting a PhD in English in Canada, she took a test for Frommer's travel guides, passed it, and got the job. After working at Frommer's, Jarolim worked for a while at Rough Guides in London, then Fodor's, where she fell so in love with a description of the Southwest of the U.S. that she moved there.
她在旅游写作方面的工作开始于大约八年前。在加拿大获得英语博士学位后，她参加了弗洛默旅行指南的考试，通过考试并获得了这份工作。在弗洛默工作后，雅罗琳在伦敦的罗浮旅游指南工作了一段时间，然后去了佛得旅游指南，在那里她深深地爱上了对美国西南部的描述，所以她搬去了那里。

Now as a travel writer, she spends one-third of her year on the road. The rest of the time is spent completing her tasks and writing reviews of restaurants at home in Tucson, Arizona.
现在，作为一名旅行作家，她一年中有三分之一的时间都在旅途中度过，其余的时间是在亚利桑那州图森市的家中度过，完成任务，撰写餐馆评论。

As adventurous as the job sounds, the hard part is fact-checking all the information. Sure, it's great to write about a tourist attraction, but you'd better get the local museum hours correct or you could really ruin someone's vacation.
虽然这项工作听起来很有挑战性，但核实所有信息非常困难。描写旅游景点当然很棒，但你最好了解当地博物馆的准确营业时间，否则你可能真的会毁了某些人的假期。