《中英對照讀新聞》NYC caught napping among world’s most 24-hour cities 全球不夜城排行榜表現不佳 紐約市措手不及

《中英對照讀新聞》NYC caught napping among world’s most 24-hour cities 全球不夜城排行榜表現不佳 紐約市措手不及 ◎張沛元
So New York is the city that never sleeps? Tick that off as just another urban myth.
所以說，紐約是不夜城嗎？這種說法可以被列為另一個都市迷思。
A new study about the world’s most 24-hour cities ranks New York 32nd on the list, well behind Cairo, Montevideo, Beirut and Malaga and Zaragoza, both in Spain, which captured the top five spots.
一份有關全球不夜城排名的最新研究顯示，紐約市排名第32，遠遠落後前5大不夜城，開羅、蒙得維的亞、貝魯特，以及西班牙的馬拉加與札拉戈薩。
Almost every European capital came ahead of New York, with London ranking 17th, Paris 18th, Rome 27th, Lisbon 15th, and even Brussels, commonly thought of as being a sleepy bureaucratic town, came in 11th place in the ranking by the social networking site Badoo.com.
幾乎所有歐洲國家首都都領先紐約市，其中倫敦第17，巴黎第18，羅馬第27，里斯本第15，連被公認是死氣沉沉的官僚鎮的布魯塞爾，也在社群網站Badoo.com的這份排名中名列第11。
"This will confirm the fears of those who say that New York has grown sterile and sleepy," said Lloyd Price, Badoo’s director of marketing. "Some will call it a humiliation."
「這（個研究結果）證實某些人的恐懼，也就是紐約變得愈來愈貧瘠與沉悶，」Badoo的行銷主任洛伊德．普萊斯說。「有人引以為恥。」
The ranking is based on an analysis of 120 million online chats spanning 122 million people in 180 countries, which showed activity peaked in Cairo at nearly 1 a.m., which is much later than New York.
這份排名是根據針對遍及180國、1億2200萬人的1億2000萬線上聊天所進行的分析，顯示開羅在將近凌晨1點時活動達到最高峰，此一時間遠比紐約市晚得多。
新聞辭典
be caught napping：慣用語，事發時未預先做好準備；措手不及。例句：As the investigations into the serial blasts progress, it becomes clear that the police were caught napping despite warnings and alerts from the Intelligence bureau over the past couple of months.（隨著連續爆炸案的調查工作持續進展，儘管情報局過去2個月來曾提出警告與警戒，爆炸案顯然令警方措手不及。）
tick something off：慣用語，列清單。例句：He had lots of objections, and he ticked them off one after another.（他有很多異議，並逐一列舉。）
sleepy：形容詞，想睡覺的，瞌睡的。