考研英语外刊选读｜印度无处谈恋爱？情侣酒店很厉害！

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Companies are creating places for couples to canoodle in a conservative country

Sep 29，2021

Locals call it “lover’s paradise”. Upvan, a picturesque lake in Thane, a satellite city of Mumbai, attracts its share of joggers, cyclists and pot-smoking college students. But mostly the lane surrounding the lake is filled with young couples getting cosy under umbrellas. Every Indian city has such spots, where skittish lovebirds find privacy out in the open. A socially conservative culture, small flats, joint families, pricey hotels and uptight hotel-owners mean that there is often nowhere else to go.

孟买卫星城塔恩一个风景如画的湖泊"厄普万"被当地人称之为“情人的天堂”，吸引了大量的慢跑者、骑行者和吸食大麻的大学生。但湖边的小巷里大多都是在雨伞下舒适的年轻情侣。每个印度城市都有这样的景点，在那里，性情急躁的情侣们可以在户外找到隐私。在印度社会保守的文化环境下，小公寓、合租家庭、昂贵的酒店和紧张的酒店老板都使得当地的小情侣们通常无处可去。

That is starting to change. “Love hotels”, which offer (very) short-stay rooms to unmarried couples, are a well-established concept in other Asian countries. But they have been a hard sell in India, says Prateek Singh, a co-founder of Brevistay, an app for hourly bookings at some 1,500 hotels. “The challenge was not convincing hotel owners of the business model, but changing their mindset.”

这种情况正在开始改变。在其他亚洲国家，“爱情酒店”是一个成熟的概念，它为未婚夫妇提供（非常）短期的住宿。但Brevistay——一个约1500家酒店线上时租的应用程序——的联合创始人普拉蒂克·辛格（Prateek Singh）表示，这种概念在印度很难销售。 “推广的难处不是在于让酒店相信这种商业模式，而是改变他们的心态。”

In March the chief minister of Uttarakhand, in northern India, bemoaned the state of the country after encountering women “showing their knees” in ripped jeans. Last month a state-run park in Hyderabad erected a notice announcing that “unmarried couples are not allowed inside the park”. It was taken down after a public uproar. “We need to be mature about the whole thing,” says an exasperated Amit Chakrabarty, who works at a hotel in Kolkata.

今年3月，印度北部北阿坎德邦的首席部长在遇到穿着破洞牛仔裤的女性“露出膝盖”后，对这个国家的现状感到惋惜。上个月，海得拉巴的某国营公园张贴了一份通知，宣布“未婚情侣不得进入公园”。这份通知在引起公众的一片哗然后被撤了下来。在加尔各答一家酒店工作的阿米特·查克拉巴蒂(Amit Chakrabarty)恼怒地说:“我们需要对整个事情保持成熟的态度。”

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 That is starting to change. “Love hotels”, which offer (very) short-stay rooms to unmarried couples, are a well-established concept in other Asian countries.

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