你以爲酒店每天都洗牀單？3步教你自己判斷
You know how when you go to a hotel, you do all kinds of gross stuff in bed you wouldn't do at home? Like eating Doritos! Or whatever other kinda gross thing you were thinking about. Despite the disgusting habits of strangers, climbing into a hotel bed probably doesn't skeeve you out. That is, unless the hotel doesn't change the sheets before you arrive with your bag of Cool Ranch. Lo, that's what Inside Edition found when it recently took some time off from harassing Kanye West.
你知道嗎？人們在入住酒店的時候，行爲習慣上會比在自家更加隨便，什麼噁心的事都可能幹，比如在牀上是薯片！或者其他一些什麼搓事，只有你想不到，沒有人做不到！不過，你選擇入住酒店的時候，不會因爲陌生人的不良習慣而止步。那麼如果酒店在你揹着Cool Ranch的揹包即將入住之前也不更換牀單呢？最近“揭露內幕”節目組勻出了騷擾Kanye West (美國著名饒舌歌手)的時間，來調查酒店中出現的這種情況。
The show checked people into New York City hotels -- decent ones, like a Residence Inn by Marriott -- on consecutive nights under different names, booking the same room both nights. The first night, the show's plants stenciled "I SLEPT HERE" in invisible fluorescent paint on the sheets. Upon returning the next night, they inspected the sheets with a blacklight. Turned out that three of the nine didn't change the sheets. The managers, confronted, had such hard-hitting responses as, "I do not know what happened in this situation," and "I expect them to be changed every day." Yeah, no kidding, you and everyone else.
節目中的試點酒店，紐約城市酒店，看上去就像萬豪旗下的酒店，非常體面。節目組每天晚上都用不同的名字登記入住同一間房。在第一天晚上，節目組用肉眼看不見的熒光劑，利用漏字板在牀上噴上了“我曾睡過這裏”的字樣。在次日晚上利用熒光燈看字樣的是否還在，以此來檢測酒店每天晚上是否都更換牀單。結果顯示，在總共入住的酒店九晚，有三晚是沒有更換牀單。被質問的酒店經理對此的反應很生硬，他迴應道, “我對此並不知情，我指望他們每晚牀單更換”。親，我不是開玩笑，其他人也是這麼指望的。
A sample size of nine may not be statistically significant, but statistics aren't the ones who have to sleep in someone else's back sweat in one hotel stay of every three. That, you shouldn't have to do, either. And regardless of a hotel's standard practices, you don't need to. So what can you do about it?
爲期九天的調查，樣本太小不足以證明，但那些要冒着沒住三次酒店就得忍受一次別人出的汗的人並不是統計數據，而是我們這些旅客。我們不應該遭受這樣的待遇，也不需要遭受這樣的待遇，無論酒店的標準做法是怎樣。可是，要怎麼做才能避免這種情況？
1. Buy a portable blacklight.
1. 買一個便攜式熒光燈。
You don't need to get the full-on purple wand they use on Inside Edition. Pocket-sized ones are available online for less than $20, and will allow you to fully inspect your hotel sheets before jumping in. That said, if you find they're dirty, then demand a room change, and those are dirty, then change hotels and find THOSE are dirty too, we can't be responsible for your overnight stay in your backseat.
不必買像節目組中用的那種全方位手持式大熒光燈，買個口袋大小的足夠了，而且網上不到20美金就能買到。在確認檢查無誤的情況下，再跳上牀也不遲。如果發現他們很髒，那就果斷要求換房間，如果房間都很髒，那就換酒店，如果酒店也都是，那麼你就得在你的汽車後座對付一個晚上了，我們並不爲此負責哦。
2. Don't stay in a hotel.
2. 別住酒店了。
Simple enough, right? It's 2016 and Airbnb is what all the cool kids are doing anyway. Then again, there's no guarantee your host is washing his or her sheets either. But since they don't have 400 rooms to clean, your oddsmight be better.
多快好省，對不對？現在已經是2016年了，潮寶寶們現在都用Airbnb。不過，一樣，不能保證房東是不是每次洗牀單，但是對比酒店要清潔更換400間房，不洗牀單的概率會很小。
3. Bring your own sheets along.
3. 自己帶牀單。
Does that immediately make you known amongst your friends as "that guy who, no joke, brings his own sheets to hotels because of something he saw on Inside Edition"? Yes, yes it does. But it's not completely unheard of, and might be the only way you can guarantee a clean bed.
也許會在你會在朋友們中間成爲焦點，你的新名字將是“對，就那個，不是開玩笑，因爲在‘揭露內幕’上開了個什麼就自己帶牀單到酒店睡”。嗯，對，事情會發展成醬紫，不過這也不是聞所未聞啦，而且這可能是你唯一能睡到乾淨牀單的方法。
So if you're reading this in a hotel bed right now and are severely grossed out, sorry 'bout that. But now at least you know. And be kind -- you may be leaving crumbs behind for tomorrow's unwary traveler.
如果你正好在酒店的牀上看到這篇文章，感到非常不適，那是在很抱歉。但至少你知道了真相了哇。那就做個好人，給明天不知情的入住旅客，少留點零食碎屑吧。
