每年我們都會受邀參加各種各樣的聚會或慶祝活動，比如婚禮、滿月酒以及同學會等等。參加這類活動似乎是我們的職責所在，所以出門參加這樣的活動就叫obligation trips；而且參加活動不但要出時間，還要送紅包。這樣一來，想自己出去真正度個假的時候卻發現既沒有時間也沒有閑錢了。

Obligation trips are the trips that people make to witness other people’s milestones like weddings, college graduations, or various kinds of reunions. They are not supposed to say no to these invitations and these trips are filling up their travel calendars and invading their savings.

Obligation trips（盡責之旅）指人們受邀出席的那些重要聚會活動，如婚禮、大學畢業典禮或各類聚會。他們一般無法拒絕這樣的邀請，而這一類活動占據了他們大部分的出行計劃，同時也讓他們的錢包被掏空不少。

Forty-one percent of U.S. travelers spend the majority of their vacation budgets on obligation trips, according to survey data recently released by Hotwire.com. As travelers jet around for other people's milestones, many are wishing for a getaway of their own. Hotwire's survey found that 89 percent of adults want to take more leisure trips but don't have the time or money for these vacations. (Source: huffingtonpost.com)

據一家名為Hotwire的網站調查顯示，出行的美國人中有41%將大部分的度假預算都花在了這一類盡責之旅上。這些人在飛來飛去見證別人重要時刻的同時，也希望能夠有時間自己出門度個假。Hotwire的調查顯示，89%的成年人希望多出去度假散心，但苦于沒有時間或金錢來實現。

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（中國日報網英語點津 Helen）

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