Take a passing glance at Dubai, and you may think life is back to normal.
乍看一眼迪拜这座城市里，你也许会认为一切如常。
In recent weeks, the bustling city has been a sparkling attraction for tourists, especially from Europe, trying to escape the brutal winter and strict coronavirus lockdowns.
最近几周里，这座繁华的城市成为了旅游热点，尤其是那些来自欧洲的游客，他们试图逃离严酷的寒冬和严苛的新冠封锁政策。
But as tens of thousands of visitors flocked there during its peak year-end season, the virus inevitably caught up with the city despite precautions aimed at limiting its spread.
尽管事先采取了一些措施，但随着成千上万的游客们蜂拥而至新冠病毒不可避免的还是波及了这座城市。
Cases began to rise, nearly quadrupling since November.
自从11月份以来确诊病例数翻了两番。
For Danish tourist Emma Mathilde, who has frequently visited Dubai over the past few months, the backlash wasn't surprising.
对于丹麦游客艾玛·玛蒂尔德来说，疫情的复发并不奇怪，在过去的几个月里，她频繁访问迪拜。
"In Europe, everyone is locked at home, it's cold and it's gray," she says.
“在欧洲，人人都关在家里，又冷又灰暗，”她说。
"Dubai is the only place you can travel to, so everyone is going there. It's sunny, you can go out to eat, and that's why people get furious over why they have to stay home when other people are enjoying their lives."
“迪拜是唯一允许访问的城市，所以大家都来了，这里很阳光，你可以到户外去吃东西，所以那些来不了的人们看着这里的人们享受生活就很生气。”
With a recent UK travel ban effectively cutting off what had in recent weeks become the world's busiest airplane route, Dubai's openness is clearly facing external challenges -- an issue that's helped prompt a rethink of Covid-19 measures.
而最近欧洲的旅游局彻底禁止了这一条仅剩的航线，迪拜的对外开放也面临了新的外部挑战，这一问题促使人们重新思考对抗新冠疫情的措施。
That said, the emirate is determined to keep its tourism-reliant economy in business, and officials are unfazed about the recent bad press, confident that levels of compliance with Covid-19 precautions have so far been in keeping with expectations.
尽管如此，阿联酋仍下定决心要继续经营他们的旅游业官员们对最近的一些坏消息并不感到畏惧。相反，很自信地说，他们应对新冠疫情的措施，目前是符合他们的预期的。
"We approach things in a very measured fashion, but it's our philosophy that we should work through this pandemic," Helal Saeed Al Marri, director general of Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, tells us.
“我们应对有道，并且我们坚信，我们能够顺利战胜疫情。”希拉尔·萨黑德·阿尔·马里说道，他是迪拜旅游和商务市场部的总监。
"If we ask everybody to change their behavior 100%, it's very unlikely to get full compliance. In our case, we've asked people to tweak their behavior, to learn to live in the new normal, and people have embraced that."
“如果我们要求人们完全改变自己的行为，这是不太可能办到的。在我们这样的情况下，我们只能要求咱们尽量调整的他们的行为来适应新的情况这一点什么是可以办到的。”
Al Marri said the actions of just a few tourists shouldn't tarnish Dubai's reputation.
阿尔·马里说少数游客的行为并不能代表迪拜的整体形象。
"If you walk in the street in Dubai, people are wearing masks. If someone isn't wearing a mask, it won't be the authorities that tell them to put a mask on, it'll be a passerby, because that's the way we've learned to live within this Covid era."
“你可以到迪拜大街上去看一看，人们都带着口罩的，如果有人不带口罩，也并不是因为政府不让他们带可能是路过的散客，最近我们已经养成了良好的应对习惯。”
联系客服
