《中英對照讀新聞》Hotel group clears the air with smoking ban 旅館集團頒布禁菸令藉以清新空氣

◎張沛元

The days of lighting up a cigarette while relaxing in your hotel room will go up in smoke at one major hotel group later this year.

在旅館房間內優閒地點根菸抽的日子，今年稍後在一家主要旅館集團內將不復見。

Marriott International announced that, come September, all of its hotel rooms, restaurants and meeting rooms in the United States and Canada, as well as all public and employee areas in those hotels, will be entirely smoke-free.

萬豪國際旅館集團宣布，從9月份起，該集團旗下在美國與加拿大境內的所有旅館房間、餐廳與會議室，以及在這些旅館內的所有公共與員工區域，將全面禁菸。

"Creating a smoke-free environment demonstrates a new level of service and care for our guests and associates," JW Marriott Junior, Marriott International’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement.

JW馬瑞歐特二世，萬豪國際旅館集團董事長兼執行長在一份聲明中指出：「創造一個無菸的環境，顯示出我們對客人與工作同仁的服務與關懷，提升到了新的層級」。

But the smoke-free rule will not change much at the hotels, since smoking is already banned in more than 90 percent of the hotel group’s rooms.

不過，這項禁菸規定將不會對萬豪旗下的旅館帶來太大改變，因為該旅館集團超過九成的房間早已禁菸。

新聞辭典

light up：片語，開燈；點燃香菸；發亮；面露喜色。lighter：名詞，打火機；點火者。例句：The little girl’s father lit his daughter up with a new toy.（那名小女孩的父親用新玩具讓女兒開心了起來。）

go up in smoke：片語，被燒光；發怒生氣；化為烏有。例句：He will go up in smoke when he finds out you didn’t follow his order.（他發現你沒有照他的命令辦事會光火的。）

smoke-free：形容詞，無菸的。-free，表「無…的」、「無…妨礙的」、「免除…的」。例如，sugar-free，無糖的；disease-free，無病的。例句：I prefer alcohol-free beverages.（我比較喜歡喝無酒精飲料。）