“假门票”英语怎么说
摘要:法国警方正对巴黎卢浮宫博物馆的数千张假门票疑似事件展开调查。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?
French police are investigating a possible scam involving thousands of fake tickets for Paris's Louvre museum.
The museum was alerted after it found fake tickets were used on several occasions by Chinese tourists and guides during August, a source told Agence France Presse.
The same source said Belgian Customs had, around the same time, found 3,600 fake tickets for the Louvre hidden in a package sent from China.
The Louvre is a top tourist attraction.
法国警方正对巴黎卢浮宫博物馆的数千张假门票疑似事件展开调查。
某知情人士对法新社透露,8月份,博物馆曾几次发现中国游客和导游使用假门票,此后便进入了警戒状态。
该知情人还透露,与此同时,比利时海关还查扣了一个含有3600张假门票的中国包裹。
卢浮宫是极负盛名的旅游景点。
【讲解】
文中的###fake tickets就是“假门票”的意思。“假门票”还可以说成counterfeit tickets。fake和counterfeit是同义词,但是指“假钱”时只能是counterfeit money。
Louvre即法国著名的卢浮宫。Agence France Presse是法语词,即“法国新闻社”,成立于1944年,是与路透社(Reuters)、美联社(Associated Press)和合众社(United Press International)齐名的西方四大世界性通讯社之一。
此外,source在新闻英语中多指“知情人士”,也可以说成insider。