2026年06月六级第1套长篇阅读匹配原文翻译及答案

A) For those "citizens of the world", the office can be anything from a beach hut in Brisbane to a Starbucks in Seattle, thanks to the growing prevalence of remote-based work. But roaming the globe from café to café is not without its challenges.

对于那些"世界公民"来说，随着远程办公日益普及，办公室可以是布里斯班的一间海滨小屋，也可以是西雅图的一家星巴克。但从一家咖啡馆漫游到另一家咖啡馆、周游世界，也并非没有挑战。

B) When the average traveller lands in a city like Bangkok, Berlin, or Buenos Aires, their first step might be to drop their bags at their hotel and to log on to TripAdvisor to find out the hours of a popular tourist attraction or the best rooftop bar for happy hour.

当普通旅行者抵达曼谷、柏林或布宜诺斯艾利斯这样的城市时，他们的第一步也许是把行李放到酒店，然后登录 TripAdvisor，查一查热门景点的开放时间或欢乐时光最棒的屋顶酒吧。

C) But people like Pieter Levels are not your average traveller. A Dutch website developer, Levels has been living and working nomadically (像游牧民那样) in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Manila for two years. With just a carry-on backpack, he chooses his location at will, based on a variety of factors—Wi-Fi speed, average temperature, exotic food and cost of living—that have little bearing on the work he actually does.

但像 Pieter Levels 这样的人并不是普通旅行者。作为一名荷兰网站开发者，Levels 两年来一直像游牧民那样在新加坡、香港、东京和马尼拉等地生活和工作。他只带一个随身背包，随心所欲地选择所在地，依据的是 Wi-Fi 速度、平均气温、异域美食和生活成本等各种因素——而这些因素与他实际所做的工作几乎毫无关系。

D) Somewhere in his nomadic journey, Levels noticed that there was a growing need to create an online infrastructure for people like himself. That's when he created #nomads, a membership-based chat system which runs on the team communication platform known as Slack. The channel allows users to ask people in their current city the types of practical questions that a tourist would unlikely need to ask.

在他游牧旅程的某个阶段，Levels 注意到，为像他这样的人建立一个在线基础设施的需求正在增长。于是他创建了 #nomads，这是一个基于会员制的聊天系统，运行在名为 Slack 的团队沟通平台上。该频道允许用户向所在城市的其他人提出各种实际问题，而这些问题通常是游客不太需要问的。

E) Members of the geographically dispersed subculture that Levels is a part of call themselves "digital nomads". They are borderless, mostly self-employed remote workers who interact with cities in a way that's entirely different from a tourist, but still doesn't quite reach the status of resident. A relatively new phenomenon, there are no hard statistics on the prevalence of digital nomads or location independent workers. But thanks to the growing prevalence of freelance (自由职业的) livelihoods, a global sharing economy and numerous digital tools, the number of people who are able to live this life is growing quickly. And in a rapidly urbanising world, where a major city in Asia increasingly offers the same comforts as one in Europe, many people are reaching the realisation they don't need to stay in one place.

Levels 所属的这一地理上分散的亚文化群体成员自称为"数字游民"。他们没有边界，大多是自雇的远程工作者，与城市互动的方式和游客完全不同，但又还没有达到居民的身份。作为一个相对较新的现象，关于数字游民或不受地点限制的工作者到底有多普遍，并没有确切的统计数据。但得益于自由职业生活方式的日益普及、全球共享经济以及众多数字工具，能够过上这种生活的人数正在迅速增长。而在一个快速城市化的世界里，亚洲的大城市越来越能提供与欧洲城市同样的舒适条件，许多人开始意识到，他们不必固守一地。

F) So how does a nomad differ from a tourist or resident? In many ways, Levels says, you can think of a digital nomad like a "short-term independent expat (移居国外的人)". Unlike a resident expat, they don't work for a large multinational company in an air conditioned office building and they generally enter a country on a tourist visa, simply renewing or moving on when it expires. But unlike a tourist, they don't arrive in a foreign city without any responsibilities. Travel isn't necessarily required for them to do their jobs, but neither is staying in one place.

那么游民与游客或居民有何不同？Levels 说，在很多方面，你可以把数字游民想象成"短期的独立侨民"。与定居的侨民不同，他们不为空调办公楼里的大型跨国公司工作，通常持旅游签证入境，签证到期时只是续签或转往他处。但与游客不同，他们抵达异国城市时并非毫无责任在身。旅行对他们完成工作而言并非必需，但固守一地同样也不是。

G) Janet Brent is an independent ebook designer. She says many people she knows assume she travels for work, but in reality her international destinations are largely up to her, and driven by cost. "Contrary to what some people might think, I don't get paid to travel—I simply choose the lifestyle. Rather than rent in one given city, I choose to travel and do short-term, temporary stays around the world, and my travel decisions are literally based on what makes the most sense financially for me," Brent said. "It's completely different from vacationing—you really sink into the city life and get your feet wet in the communities."

Janet Brent 是一名独立电子书设计师。她说，许多认识她的人以为她是为工作而旅行，但实际上她的国际目的地基本由自己决定，并受成本驱动。"与一些人的想法相反，我不是靠旅行赚钱——我只是选择了这种生活方式。与其在某一座城市租房，我选择周游世界、进行短期临时停留，我的旅行决定完全基于对我而言在经济上最划算的选择，" Brent 说。"这和度假完全不同——你真正沉浸到城市生活中，融入当地社区。"

H) Bryce Adams is another such nomad. He works as a developer for a South African company WooThemes, which has a workforce that's more than 80% remote-based. Though Adams frequently posts pictures on Instagram of his enviable cooking adventures from Seoul to Bangkok, he says nomad life in foreign cities has its downsides, including finding adequate Wi-Fi for the bandwidth-hungry work his livelihood depends on. Contrary to the perception that he works under a mango tree in a tropical haven, Adams says the reality of this life means that he often ends up staying in more western style places in globalised cities—ones that are sure to have air conditioning and a decent connection—rather than exotic beachfront cafés.

Bryce Adams 是另一位这样的游民。他为南非公司 WooThemes 担任开发者，该公司超过80%的员工都是远程办公。尽管 Adams 经常在 Instagram 上发布他从首尔到曼谷令人羡慕的烹饪冒险照片，他说在异国城市的游民生活也有其不利之处，包括为他赖以谋生的高带宽工作寻找足够好的 Wi-Fi。与人们以为他在热带天堂的芒果树下工作的印象相反，Adams 说这种生活的现实是，他常常最终待在全球化城市里更西式的场所——那些一定有空调和不错网络的地方——而不是异域的海滨咖啡馆。

I) "A fellow nomad posted quite a funny but honest message on Twitter a few days ago that stuck with me: 'It's funny that digital nomads spend 16 hours to fly to the other side of the world to sit in Starbucks,' and it's completely true," Adams said. "When you're a digital nomad, you don't actually have as much freedom as most people think you do. We have deadlines, we all have people relying on us and a mouth (or two) that needs to be fed. It's nice to be able to work anywhere in the world but it's not without its challenges."

"几天前，一位游民同伴在 Twitter 上发了一条相当好笑但真实的消息，让我印象深刻：'有趣的是，数字游民花16个小时飞到地球另一端，就为了坐在星巴克里，'而这完全是真的，" Adams 说。"当你成为数字游民，你实际上并没有大多数人以为的那么自由。我们有截止期限，我们都有依赖我们的人，还有一张（甚至两张）要养活的嘴。能在世界任何地方工作固然很好，但也并非没有挑战。"

J) But these challenges can often provide an opportunity for nomads to see a side of a city they may not have if they were staying in a luxury hotel for a long weekend. However inconvenient, a trip to a local doctor, immigration office or laundry—or a conflict with a local Airbnb host (the accommodation style of choice for most nomads)—can be far more culturally instructive than a trip to the national museum. And because nomads often have to stay where the strongest internet connection is, they tend to spend more time in developing cities compared to the average tourist, who often flees to more touristy destinations soon after landing at the airport.

但这些挑战往往能给游民一个机会，让他们看到一座城市中若只是在豪华酒店度过一个长周末就无缘得见的一面。无论多么不便，去看当地医生、办理移民手续或洗衣，或与当地 Airbnb 房东（大多数游民首选的住宿方式）发生一点摩擦——都可能比参观国家博物馆更具文化启发意义。而且由于游民往往必须待在网络连接最强的地方，与普通游客相比，他们在发展中城市待的时间更多；而普通游客常常一落地就奔向更具旅游气息的目的地。

K) The nomad life is, by all accounts, one built out of privilege. You not only need a relatively powerful passport that makes tourist visas easy to attain, but also a knowledge economy job and access to the technology and devices that make remote working possible. But nomads like Adams say that while they are aware of this privilege, they believe living this way elevates what they're able to offer, by giving them a broader perspective on what they're building, writing, or designing and expanding their world view.

无论从哪个角度看，游民生活都是一种建立在特权之上的生活。你不仅需要一本相对'强大'、便于获取旅游签证的护照，还需要一份知识经济领域的工作，以及能让远程办公成为可能的技术和设备。但像 Adams 这样的游民说，尽管他们意识到这种特权，他们相信这样的生活方式提升了他们所能贡献的价值——它让他们对自己所构建、所写作或所设计的东西有了更广阔的视角，并拓展了他们的世界观。

L) "Being able to travel and get around makes it easy to stay inspired," he added. "I truly believe that it makes me a more sensible human being, as I tend to see and appreciate the creative solutions people come up with in other parts of the world, even though many tend to have far more constraints than we have at home."

"能够旅行、四处走动让人很容易保持灵感，" 他补充道。"我真心相信这让我成为一个更明理的人，因为我往往能看到并欣赏世界其他地方的人们想出的创造性解决方案，尽管其中许多人面临的限制远比我们在国内多得多。"

M) So when you're constantly on the road and don't own any property or have a fixed address, which city do you call home? It's no surprise that many nomads are dual citizens or "third culture kids," who have grown up with a notion of identity that's not tied to nationalism or staying in one place. Levels says that the nomad life has not only changed his notions of citizenship, but the people he chooses to spend time with as well. "Saying you're a 'citizen of the world' is a super cliché, right? But it's becoming quite true," Levels said. "This global awareness has been the reason I started Nomad List and it's affected who my friends are. It's normal to have dinner now and sit with a Korean girl, a British-Singaporean guy, a Mexican girl and a Nigerian guy. As much as that sounds like a politically correct TV advertisement, it's great that that's the time we're in now."

那么，当你常年在路上、不拥有任何房产、也没有固定住址时，你会把哪座城市称作家？难怪许多游民是双重国籍者或"第三文化孩子"，他们成长过程中形成的身份认同观念并不与民族主义或固守一地绑定。Levels 说，游民生活不仅改变了他关于公民身份的观念，也改变了他选择与之相处的人。"说自己是'世界公民'是个超级老套的说法，对吧？但它正在变得相当真实，" Levels 说。"这种全球意识正是我创办 Nomad List 的原因，它也影响了我的朋友是谁。如今，晚餐时和一个韩国女孩、一个英国裔新加坡小伙、一个墨西哥女孩以及一个尼日利亚小伙同桌，是再正常不过的事。尽管这听起来像一则政治正确的电视广告，但我们能身处这样的时代，实在是件好事。"