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🔥 ‘A Bargain With the Devil’—Bill Comes Due for Overextended Airbnb Hosts
「我和魔鬼做了交易」：Airbnb高槓桿房東損失慘重
💰For years, Cheryl Dopp considered the ding on her phone from a new Airbnb Inc. booking to be the sound of what she called “magical money.” A property she rented out in Jersey City, N.J., on Airbnb could gross more than $8,000 a month, she said, double what long-term tenants would pay.
很多年來，Cheryl Dopp每當聽到手機發出Airbnb新訂單的提示音，都會覺得那一聲「叮」代表著錢幣入袋。她把紐澤西州澤西城的一處房產掛在Airbnb上出租，她說每月總收入在8000美元（約23.9萬元）以上，是長租的兩倍。
-consider: 認為；視為
-property: 財產，資產；房地產
-gross: 獲得總收入（或毛利）
-tenant: 房客；承租人
🏠Now, Ms. Dopp associates the dings with cancellations and financial misery. The 54-year-old information-technology contractor said she had about $10,000 in bookings evaporate overnight in March. She has $22,000 in monthly expenses for a largely Airbnb portfolio, she said, that included another Jersey City home and a house in Miami.
而如今，這聲「叮」在Dopp小姐耳中卻意味著訂單取消和財務危機。這位54歲的資訊技術承包商表示，她整個3月有大約1萬美元的訂單一夜之間蒸發。她每個月在以Airbnb為主的投資組合上約投入2.2萬美元，其中包括澤西城的另一處房產與邁阿密的一棟住宅。
-associate: 聯想，把……聯想在一起(+with)
-evaporate: 蒸發；揮發
-expense: 費用；支出；開支
👿In her mind, the promise of more rental income offset the growing debt, she said. “I made a bargain with the devil.”
在她看來，不斷增長的債務抵消了租金收入增加的盼頭。她說：「我和魔鬼做了一筆交易。」
-offset: 補償；抵銷
-bargain: 買賣，交易
✍ to bargain with sb. (over or for sth.) （就某事物）與某人商談
✍ to make or strike a bargain 達成協議
🏰Ms. Dopp is part of an upper-crust dimension of the gig economy: property owners and speculators who bought or leased real estate in pursuit of Airbnb profits. Airbnb spawned a cottage industry of homeowners running their own property empires, turning the startup into a hotelier without any hotels.
Dopp小姐是零工經濟中上階級的一份子，這類業主和投資者為了通過Airbnb獲利購買或租賃房產。Airbnb催生出一個短租產業，業主們經營著各自的「房產帝國」，將這家創業公司變為一家不擁有任何飯店資產的飯店經營方。
-upper-crust: [口語]上流社會；麵包表層的皮
-gig: [口語](爵士樂、搖滾樂) 演奏，公演
✍ gig economy: 零工經濟
-speculator: 投機者；投機商人
-spawn: 產（卵）；產生；造成
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❓❓多益模擬題❓:
In Ms. Dopp’s mind, the promise of more rental income _____ the growing debt, she said. “I made a _____ with the devil.”
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A. compensate / adjustment
B. balance / agreement
C. offset / bargain
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