世界最大郵輪 載客數翻倍泰坦尼克

The Oasis Of The Seas，is the name of the mammoth new cruise liner, the biggest in the world。
這艘巨大的郵輪名叫海洋綠洲，它是世界上最大的郵輪。

This floating megahotel is 1,187ft long — as long as the Shard skyscraper in London is tall — and at 208ft wide is broader than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
郵輪的船長1187英尺（約361米），比倫敦碎片大廈還要高，船寬208英尺（約63米），比加上兩翼長度的波音747飛機還要寬。

The £800 million ship, weighing 225,282 tonnes, is 40 per cent bigger than any other vessel that’s ever docked in Britain. It can hold 5,400 passengers and 2,394 crew.
海洋綠洲號耗資達8億英鎊，重達22.5萬噸，比所有曾在英國碼頭停留過的輪船大40%。郵輪的載客量爲5400人，船員人數共2394人。

Its 16 decks are packed with all sorts of diversions: an outdoor park with 12,000 plants and trees, including vines and bamboos; an 82ft-long zipwire, and a high-diving board.
郵輪上共有16個甲板，每層甲板上都設有不同的娛樂設施：有種了1.2萬棵竹子、藤蔓等植物的室外公園，有長82英尺的高空滑降索道，還有高臺跳水板等。

For exercise, there are basketball courts, rock-climbing walls, an ice-rink and mini-golf. There are 10,000 square metres of retail space, more 20 restaurants and 37 bars — including one, the Rising Tide, which goes up and down between three decks.
船上有供鍛鍊身體的籃球場、攀巖牆、溜冰場和迷你高爾夫球場。還有1萬平方米大小的商業區，包括20個餐館和37個酒吧，其中一間名叫涌潮的酒吧，可以在三層甲板之間上下移動。

Of all the attractions aboard the Oasis, the two most depressing on offer are the biggest swimming pool at sea and not one, but two, surfing machines. What on earth is the point of a swimming pool, however big, and fake waves, when you are sailing through the biggest pool in the world — the sea itself?
在海洋綠洲號上所有的娛樂設施中，最吸引人的是海上最大游泳池和兩臺衝浪模擬器。當你在這個世界上最大的游泳池中暢遊的時候，也許你會想，除了足夠大、除了人工製造海浪外，在船上搞這麼大一個游泳池究竟是爲了什麼？是爲了模擬海洋麼？

The Oasis passengers injected half-a-million pounds into the local economy in their single day docked at Southampton. And the economies of scale are beneficial to those passengers, too: a two-week holiday starts at just £1,300, less than £100 a day — what a bargain!
郵輪在英國南安普頓海岸停靠僅僅一天的時間裏，郵輪上的乘客就給當地帶來了50萬英鎊的經濟增長。與此同時，這種規模效應也給船上乘客帶來了益處：在這艘巨輪上度過兩週假期只需1300英鎊，平均一天還不到100英鎊，真是划算啊！