With an on-site butterfly dome, cactus garden and four-story slide, Singapore's Changiairport regularly tops rankings of the best airports in the world.
新加坡樟宜機場擁有蝴蝶形圓頂、仙人掌花園和四層樓高的滑梯,經常榮登全球最 佳機場排行榜首。
But some travelers are taking a little too much of a shine to it.
但有些游客對它太過于關注了。
The Singapore Police Force has issued a warning to residents not to "misuse" their boardingpasses after a man was arrested for buying a ticket to walk his wife to the gate.
近日,新加坡一名男子因買票送妻子登機被警方逮捕,隨后警方向居民發出警告,不要“濫用”登機牌。
The misuse of boarding passes is an offense in Singapore, where transit areas are considered"protected places."
在新加坡,濫用登機牌是一種犯罪行為,過境區被認為是“受保護區域”。
Anyone accessing the gate-side areas at Changi without intending to fly can be prosecutedunder Singapore's Infrastructure Protection Act and fined up to $20,000 or imprisoned for up totwo years. Thirty three people have been arrested under the legislation in the first eightmonths of 2019.
Police said the 27-year-old bought a ticket purely to walk his wife to the gate and had "nointention to depart Singapore."
警方表示,這名27歲的男子買機票純粹是為了陪妻子走到登機口,且“無意離境”。
In a Facebook post they added that "passengers who enter the transit areas with a boardingpass should only be there for the purpose of traveling to their next destination."
警方在臉書的一篇帖子中補充說,“乘客持登機牌進入中轉區域應該就是為了前往下一個目的地。”
If the idea that anyone would actively want to spend time in an airport sounds odd, you haven'tflown through Singapore.
如果你認為有人想在機場消磨時間的想法聽起來很奇怪,那你一定沒有去過新加坡機場。
When Changi's new Jewel terminal opened in April, it made headlines around the globe for its40-meter waterfall (the world's largest indoor one), a 14,000-square-meter Canopy Park, complete with a suspension bridge, topiary and mazes, and one of Asia's largest indoorgardens with 3,000 trees and 60,000 shrubs.
Overstaying your welcome in the terminal is a thing, here.
在這個機場長時間逗留已經成為一個現象。
In 2016, a Malaysian man was jailed after he spent 18 days in Changi, forging boarding passesto gain entry to nine airport lounges. Shortly afterward, a couple was arrested for bookingflexible tickets to gain access to the Changi shopping mall, where they bought an iPhone 7.