随着北京奥运会的临近，许多人梦寐以求的奥运门票也在网上开始热炒，有些开闭幕式的门票已炒到了十几万元。在网上，有人公开拍卖奥运比赛门票，起价几千元不等，比原价高出数倍。

    请看《中国日报》的报道：

    Olympic ticket scalpers move in－Advertisements for the sale of Olympic tickets can be easily found online, but at a price. Many Beijing residents said they were disappointed with the speculative¹ reselling of tickets. It was unfair to genuine sports fans. In response, organizers of the Beijing Games said speculative reselling was a breach² of the law.

    奥运门票黄牛党现身――在网上很容易就能搜到出售奥运门票的广告，只是价钱很高。很多北京市民表示他们对倒票行为感到失望。这对真正的体育爱好者来说是不公平的。北京奥运会组织者对此做出回应说倒票行为是违法的。

    该报道中，scalper指someone who buys something and resells it at a price far above the initial cost，就是我们常说的“黄牛”，他们的行为一般叫做speculative reselling of tickets（投机性转卖各类票证），即“倒票”；speculative reselling就是“倒卖”。