These days, safety regulations—not to mention the modern sports fan's desire for a good view and comfortable seat—tend to keep stadium capacities slightly lower.

如今，安全规定使体育场容量趋于下降，更不用说现代体育迷对良好视野和舒适座椅的渴望了。

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Building an 80, 000-seat stadium for half a billion pounds, then scaling it back after a few weeks' use, seems close to madness.

花5亿镑建造一个八万座体育场，仅使用数周便缩减座位规模，似乎是疯了。

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Oprah booked Millennium Park, a 4,000 seat outdoor stadium in downtown Chicago, for her first show of the new season, during which she’ll honor 150 Olympic athletes.

为了打造全新季的首映集，欧普拉预定了千禧公园一个能容纳4000观众的户外体育场，并且请来150名奥运选手参加录制。

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Football fan Nkosinathi Wellington came out to see South Africa's national team inaugurate the 70,000-seat stadium in a friendly match with Zimbabwe.

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Cape Town, on the south Atlantic coast, boasts a new 70,000-seat stadium with backdrops of the apartheid-era prison at Robben Island on one side and its iconic Table Mount on the other.

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Like hotels and airlines, every empty stadium seat represents a fixed cost and a perishable product.

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Consumers need help measuring the intangibles of a stadium seat.

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Meanwhile, the loyalty-building experience of seeing NFL football has been stripped away by expensive tickets and seat licenses (to say nothing of parking and food prices) and the reality that a stadium seat may be less satisfying than a place on the TV room couch.

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