Week-long Holidays,Good or Bad?What's Your Opinion?
Our National Day is coming. We shall have days of rest,presumably weeklong holidays again just like the weeklong May Day holidays. Many people welcome weeklong holidays and are busy planning where and how to spend the seven days;whereas many other people do not applaud. As to me, weeklong holidays mean a span of dullness, boredom, melancholy and helplessness, and I think anyone who had experienced the holiday sufferings in May would share my feelings.
I well remember that from May Day, to be more exact, a few days earlier than May Day, the shopping season started.Most shops extended their shopping hours to respond to their overwhelmingly enthusiastic customers. There were special sales with discount coupons and instant lucky draws and various sales promotions in nearly every big store to lure po tential customers into spending more. Crowds of shoppers flocked towards department stores, enjoying their high purchasing power.
There were traffic jams almost everywhere, people waited in long queues at bus-stops:and taxi-stands? looking entirely exhausted.Tempers flared when people gotpushed or if someone else cut the queue.Impatient drivers honked at each other every now and then.
The railway station was congested with travelers who rushed to the platform like a swarm of bees and then squeezed their way into the train for seats as if there would be no tomorrow.
In the restaurants, tables were shared. A platoon of waiters filed out from the kitchen armed with various containers of eatables. Orders were taken feverishly and then shouted across to the kitchen. Excitement reigned everywhere as waiters ran hither and thither to fill the orders.
The above are just some vivid scenes that happened a few months ago. Everywhere was chaos and chaos everywhere. I am really afraid the drama will soon be repeated.
True,weeklong holidays help activate economy, but what about after-holiday depression? No doubt, people can have a lot of leisure, but leisure does not always bring a lot of pleasure.
翻譯：
為期一周的假期,好還是壞?你的意見是什么?
我們的國慶節(jié)快到了。我們將會(huì)有幾天的休息，大概又一周的假期，就像一周的五一假期。許多人都喜歡在一周的假期里，忙于規(guī)劃在哪里和如何度過這七天，而許多人卻不鼓掌。對(duì)我來說，為期一周的假期意味著一段無聊、無聊、憂郁和無助的時(shí)光，我想，任何經(jīng)歷過五月假日痛苦的人都會(huì)分享我的感受。
我很清楚，從五一開始，更確切地說，比五一節(jié)早幾天，購物季節(jié)開始了。大多數(shù)商店都延長(zhǎng)了購物時(shí)間，以回應(yīng)那些極度熱情的顧客。在幾乎每家大型商店都有特價(jià)銷售折扣券和即時(shí)幸運(yùn)抽獎(jiǎng)和各種促銷活動(dòng)，以吸引潛在顧客消費(fèi)更多。成群的購物者涌向百貨商店，享受著他們的高購買力。
幾乎到處都有交通堵塞，人們排著長(zhǎng)隊(duì)在公共汽車站排隊(duì)，還有出租汽車站?看完全筋疲力盡了。當(dāng)人們被推著或者別人插隊(duì)時(shí)，脾氣就會(huì)爆發(fā)。不耐煩的司機(jī)們不時(shí)地互相鳴喇叭。
火車站擠滿了像一群蜜蜂一樣沖向站臺(tái)的旅客，然后擠進(jìn)車廂里坐著，好像明天就沒有了。
在餐館里，桌子是共用的。一排服務(wù)員從廚房里拿出各種各樣的飯盒。人們狂熱地命令，然后向廚房大喊。到處都是激動(dòng)人心的場(chǎng)面，因?yàn)槭虘?yīng)生們到處跑去填滿了訂單。
以上只是幾個(gè)月前發(fā)生的一些生動(dòng)的場(chǎng)景。到處都是混亂和混亂。我真擔(dān)心這出戲很快就會(huì)上演。
誠然，為期一周的假期有助于激活經(jīng)濟(jì)，但假期后的抑郁又如何呢?毫無疑問，人們可以有很多的閑暇，但休閑并不總是帶來很多樂趣。
