Tickets of Noah’s Ark in fashion

电影《2012》为我们展示了一场全世界性的灾难，只有登上位于西藏的诺亚方舟才能确保安全。影片中这艘大船的船票可是1000万欧元，而在现实生活中，船票的价格仅需要不到0.5美元.

The movie 2012 even makes an attempt to show us the catastrophic events leading up to the worldwide disaster, and a modern version of Noah's Ark, a ship in Tibet where people will be safe. While tickets for the movie ship cost a billion Euros each, in real life they can be purchased for less than $0.5.

中国在线购物门户网站淘宝上有很多商铺开始出售虚拟船票，每张价格3元人民币。2012年，把这种船票作为新年礼物非常流行，很多人想用这种滑稽的保全方式来面对世界末日。目前，江苏的一个商铺已经卖出了2500张船票，每张3元。还有一家商铺在一个月间卖出了1700张船票，每张2元.

Chinese online shopping portal, Taobao, has several online stores selling these counterfeit tickets at 3 RMB a piece. The tickets have been popular as a new year's gift, a comical way of ensuring one's safety in the face of the 2012 Armageddon. One store in Jiangsu has sold 2,500 train and ark tickets at 3 RMB each. Another one sold 1,700 Chinese Noah's Ark passes in a month, at 2 RMB each.

船票和影片《2012》中描述的一模一样。登船时间是2012年12月21日，登船地点是卓明谷码头。舱位和座位号也标记在上面。为了让船票看起来逼真，一些商铺还引进了售票系统，允许客户在船票上键入他们的名字，国籍和其他信息.

This is the same information that is talked about in the movie 2012– the boarding time, which is midnight on December 21st 2012, and the boarding place, at Zhuo Ming Gu dock.. Cabin seats and ticket numbers have also been included. To make the tickets look real, some stores have introduced ticketing systems that allow the customers to enter their name, nationality and other information on their tickets.

除了船票之外，人们还购买其他搞笑的生存物件，比如急救药箱，救援绳索，急诊医药包等。大家都在以别出心裁的方式来迎接2012的到来，你怎么看呢？

Besides the tickets, people are queuing up to purchase other joke survival items such as earthquake first aid kits, rescue ropes, emergency medicine packages and so on. People use this innovative way to welcome 2012. What is your opinion?

词语注释：

虚拟（xūnǐ）Counterfeit; virtual

滑稽（huájī）comical

保全（bǎoquán）ensure

舱位（cāngwèi）cabin seat

逼真（bīzhēn）look real

搞笑（gǎoxiào）joke; make laughs

别出心裁（bié chū xīn cái）innovative

(Source: myechinese.com)