2021届高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（十）

2021高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（十） 传奇！这个人让数百万印度人买得起飞机 In the summer of 2005, retired army officer-turned-businessman GR Gopinath announced that he would enable Indians to fly at one rupee or less than a cent. 2005年夏天，退役军官出身的商人戈皮纳特(Gr Gopinath)宣布，他将使印度人能够以1卢比或不到1美分的价格飞行。 It was an incredulous sales pitch from the founder of the country's first budget airline. 这是该国第一家廉价航空公司创始人的一次令人难以置信的推销。 Air Deccan, his then two-year-old no-frills airline modelled on European budget carriers like EasyJet and Ryanair, had already made flying affordable to millions of Indians. Capt Gopinath's tickets cost half of what competitors charged. 他当时成立两年的廉价航空公司德干航空(Air Deccan)效仿易捷航空(EasyJet)和瑞安航空(Ryanair)等欧洲廉价航空公司，已经让数百万印度人负担得起飞行费用。戈皮纳特船长的门票价格是竞争对手票价的一半。 Now his airline introduced "dynamic pricing" where a small number of "early bird" customers could travel at a rupee. Latecomers would pay a higher ticket price, which would still be substantially lower than competitors. Not surprisingly, booking counters were overrun with customers, many of them first-time fliers. Critics howled such pricing methods would wreck the industry. 现在，他的航空公司引入了“动态定价”，一小部分“早起的鸟”乘客可以用1卢比的价格出行。后来者将支付更高的门票价格，但仍远低于竞争对手。不足为奇的是，订票柜台挤满了顾客，其中许多是第一次乘坐飞机的人。批评人士咆哮着说，这样的定价方法会毁了这个行业。 "The one rupee ticket fired the imagination of the people and quickly became a buzzword," wrote Capt Gopinath in his memoirs. He believed his airline had not "only broken the price barrier, but India's caste and class barrier to flying". 戈皮纳特上尉在他的回忆录中写道：“一张卢比彩票激发了人们的想象力，并迅速成为一个流行语。”他认为，他的航空公司“不仅打破了价格障碍，还打破了印度的种姓和等级障碍”。 A new Tamil film Soorarai Pottru (Praise the Brave), released on Amazon Prime Video this week, celebrates the life of the maverick businessman. Based on Capt Gopinath's memoirs, the film is produced by Academy Award winner Guneet Monga. 本周在亚马逊Prime Video上发布的泰米尔新片《勇敢的赞美者》(Soorarai Pottru)颂扬了这位特立独行的商人的一生。这部电影是根据戈皮纳特上尉的回忆录改编的，由奥斯卡奖得主古尼特·蒙加制作。 "It's an incredible story about bridging the gap between the have and have-nots. Most Indians were excited when the concept of low-cost flying was introduced by Capt Gopinath," Ms Monga told the BBC. Tamil film star Suriya, who plays the businessman, says, "He revolutionised flying in India by breaking class and economic barriers". 蒙加告诉BBC：“这是一个弥合贫富差距的令人难以置信的故事。当戈皮纳特机长提出低成本飞行的概念时，大多数印度人都很兴奋。”泰米尔影星苏里亚(Suriya)饰演这位商人，他说：“他打破了阶级和经济障碍，彻底改变了印度的飞行。” Soorarai Pottru has all the popular tropes of commercial Tamil cinema: song and dance, a fo ... ...