用英语感叹句赞叹北京冬奥会 When news arrived in November that Beijing was bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics, many observers in the Chinese capital briefly choked on their tea __ or was that the smog? 去年11月传出北京申办2022年冬季奥运会的消息时，在这座中国首都城市的许多观察人士都被口中的茶呛了一下(或者是因为雾霾?)。 A few years removed from hosting the Summer Olympics, with virtually no winter sports tradition to speak of and bad air that gets worse when the temperatures drop, China's capital seemed as likely a choice to host the Winter Games as Dubai or Bankok. 北京在几年前刚刚举办过夏季奥运会，而且实际上没什么说得上来的冬季体育运动传统，再加上气温下降时空气质量会更加糟糕，被选作冬运会举办地的可能性看起来就和迪拜或曼谷差不多。 Eight months later, the International Olympic Committee has named Beijing, which has proposed hosting the games in conjunction with the nearby city of Zhangjiakou, as one of the three finalists for the bid, along with Oslo in Norway and Kazakhstan's Almaty. 八个月之后，国际奥林匹克委员会(International Olympic Committee, 简称：国际奥委会)宣布，北京与挪威的奥斯陆及哈萨克斯坦的阿拉木图共同入围最后一轮候选名单。北京提出的方案是与附近城市张家口一起举办冬奥会。 What are Beijing's chances of actually winning the bid? Better than you might think. 北京真的胜出的可能性有多大?比你可能以为的要大。 The 2022 Winter Olympics has e known as the Olympics no one wants to host after a long list of candidates dropped their bids. Stockholm, Munich, two cities in Switzerland, Denver, Krakow and Lviv in Ukraine all pursued the idea of hosting the event to varying degrees but ultimately decided to withdraw themselves from consideration over the past few months __ leaving only the three finalists. 在一长串候选城市都放弃之后，2022年冬奥会已经成了有名的“谁都不想承办”的一届奥运会。瑞典的斯德哥尔摩、德国慕尼黑、瑞士两个城市、美国丹佛、波兰克拉科夫和乌克兰利沃夫都不同程度地寻求过主办这届冬奥会，但经过过去几个月的思考，它们最终都决定退出――只剩下最后一轮名单上的三个城市。 With the exception of Lviv, which cancelled its bid last week because of continuing political strife in Ukraine, most of the other drop-outs appear to have been frightened away by the specter of this year's Winter Games in Sochi, which emptied Russia's coffers to the tune of $51 billion and left little of value behind. 除了利沃夫以外，多数中途退出者似乎都被今年索契冬奥会给吓住了。这届冬奥会花掉了俄罗斯510亿美元之多，而并没有带来什么价值。利沃夫上周因乌克兰持续不断的政治冲突而放弃竞标。 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/1538b0001a2e453610661ed9ad51f01dc2815710.html