没学好英语的后果？马拉松赛事“香皂”当“甜点”_BEC初级作文

没学好英语的后果？马拉松赛事“香皂”当“甜点”

Runners in a marathon were left with a bad taste in their mouths when they mistook free bars of soap for energy bars in an incident that's been put down to the language barrier.

马拉松参赛者把免费发的香皂当成了能量棒，一口咬下满嘴“酸爽”，而造成此次事件的原因被归咎为语言障碍。

Some 20,000 runners at the Qingyuan marathon in south China's Guangdong province received a gift pack shortly after they crossed the finishing line, the People's Daily newspaper reports. Hoping to bite into what they thought was an energy bar, athletes instead got a mouthful of what turned out to be fruit-perfumed moisturising soap. Witnesses report many bars of soap, all with one bite missing, dumped at the roadside, and the problem appears to come from the fact that the soap packaging was written in English, which many runners did not understand, the paper's Chinese-language report noted.

据《人民日报》报道，在中国南部广东省清远市举办的马拉松比赛中，约有2万名参赛者在到达终点后收到一个礼包。他们以为是能量棒，一口咬下，结果嘴里全是水果香皂的味道。据目击者称，路边有很多被扔掉的香皂块，都被咬了一口。《人民日报》的中文报道称，这一问题似乎是因为香皂的包装纸上写的是英文，很多参赛者看不懂。

没学好英语的后果？马拉松赛事“香皂”当“甜点”1

The organisers of the race were quick to apologise. "The packs of soap were indeed like food packaging. It is a negligent mistake on our part," an official told Yangtse Evening Post. There was also some concern over the level of injuries at the event, with 12,200 runners needing medical treatment or assistance during and after the race. It's not clear how many were the result of the soap incident.