本日口譯文章：世上居然有這麽好的事情:飛翔達人免費遊天下
上個月， 本·斯拉必格(Ben Schlappig)的Instagram主頁上的照片表現他飛離了北京，在德國品味咖啡和蛋糕，從穆赫蘭道(Mulholland Drive)上方贊嘆洛杉磯的天涯線。
光看照片你大概會猜這個25歲的年青人必定是在度長假，但是並不是如斯。這便是他的生存，他的事情。
2014年，當斯拉必格的屋子租賃期滿時，他把他的全部生存打包進了幾個旅遊箱，開端全職全球飛翔。應用對航空公司嘉獎機制的專業級懂得，現實上他搭乘飛機不消花一分錢。
斯拉必格在接收《滾石》雜誌采訪時說：“我很榮幸，我所做的恰是我酷愛的。飛機便是我的寢室、辦公室另有遊戲室。”
斯拉必格是一個名為“業余喜好者”的集團的一分子，他們數十年來“騙”過了航空公司的嘉獎機制，應用頻仍的飛翔記載，信譽卡的嘉獎辦法和航空公司售票法式算法中的毛病，得到周遊天下的免費機票。
在紐約出身的斯拉必格在13歲時就參加了這個集團。當時他發明了飛翔喜好者網站Flyer Talk，因而開端經由過程網站在線的評論辯論版進修免費飛翔的“竅門”。
斯拉必格其實不順應黌舍的生存，因而花了許多時光在網上進修免費飛翔的本領。不到一年，他便開端在周末應用跌價的雙程機票在天下飛來飛去，乃至都未曾分開機場，是以積聚了不計其數的飛翔裏程。
他的父親阿爾諾說：“這是個頗有趣的業余喜好。我告知他，嘿，保持下去。這比抽大麻強多了。”
2014年4月，斯拉必格的屋子租約到期，他將全部產業打包進幾個玄色行李箱，開端了全職周遊天下的生存。
他估計本身天天約莫有六個小時是在空中飛翔的，而余下的時光他會住在本身選取的五星級旅店中。
沒有一個可以稱之為家的牢固都會會令大部門人抓狂，斯拉必格卻稱在他眼裏離家比來處所便是機艙或是歇息室，只管他也認可有的時刻會覺得孤獨。
斯拉必格說：“這個天下太大了，我可以一直地飛下去。同時，你又會發明這個天下實在也挺小的。”
【參考譯文】
Last month, Ben Schlappig's Instagram page showed him jetting out of Beijing, dining on coffee and cake in Germany and marveling at the Los Angeles skyline from the top of Mulholland Drive.
While the pictures suggest that the 25-year-old is on some extended vacation - he is not. This is his life and job.
Last year, when Schlappig's lease ended, he packed his entire life into a few suitcases and started flying around the world full time, using his expert knowledge of airline reward programs to fly at practically no cost at all.
'I'm very fortunate in that I do what I love,' Schlappig said in an interview with Rolling Stone. 'An airplane is my bedroom. It's my office, and it's my playroom.'
Schlappig is part of a community known as 'Hobbyists,' who have been outsmarting the airlines on their own rewards programs for decades, using their frequent flyer statuses, credit card incentives and mistakes in airline ticketing algorithms to get them free tickets around the world.
It's a community New York born Schlappig has been a part of since he was 13, when he discovered the Hobby website Flyer Talk and started learning the tricks of the trade on the site's online discussion boards.
Never having really fit in at school, Schlappig spent a lot of time online mastering the art of the Hobby and within a year started spending his weekend flying across the country on back to back flights, never even leaving the airport, to stack up thousands of frequent flyer miles.
'It was an interesting hobby,' his dad Arno said. 'I said, "Hey! Keep it up. It's better than smoking pot."'
When his lease ended in April 2014, he packed all of his belongings into a few black suitcases and started traveling the world full time.
He estimates that he spends about six hours a day in the sky, and when he's not flying, he lives in five-star hotels wherever he chooses.
While not having a permanent city to call home would make most crazy, Schlappig says the closest place to his home is an airplane cabin or lounge, though he does admit to sometimes getting lonely.
'The world is so big, I can keep running,' Schlappig says. 'At the same time, it makes you realize the world is so small.'
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