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伦敦抓不住奥运热

Source: VOA    2012-05-26  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

The Summer Olympics start in London in about two months, on July 27, and while interest has started to build a little, the city is not overflowing with excitement.

In the heart of london, at Trafalgar Square, the official Olympic countdown clock gets a steady stream of people posing for pictures. But most of them are foreign tourists.

Many Londoners appear indifferent, worried or actually hostile toward the Games.

"I think it is a waste of money," declared Dave Thomas, a man passing through the Square. "All the money that is being wasted could have been spent on something else.”

Jessica, a young woman on crowded Oxford Street was worried about her shopping trips during the Olympics. “It is already busy in London,” s