Tuvalu, made up of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific, is not your usual holiday destination. The former British colony, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, is a haul(一段艰苦的旅程) to get to, served by only a few flights a week. Tourism barely exists. The main attractions are the airport runway in the capital, Funafuti, which transforms into a picnic spot and football pitch most afternoons, and the sleepy(安静的，冷清的) post office, which attracts enthusiastic stamp collectors. It is one of the least visited countries in the world.
图瓦卢由南太平洋的九个微小岛屿组成，并非寻常的度假胜地。这块前英国殖民地大致位于夏威夷和澳大利亚之间，路途遥远，每周只有少数几个航班。旅游业几乎不存在。主要景点是首都富纳富提的机场跑道，大部分下午会变成野餐点和足球场，还有宁静的邮局，吸引着热情的集邮者。它是世界上访问量最少的国家之一。
None of that was enough to dissuade(劝阻，阻止) Ted Nims, an American who recently spent a week there and, in the process, checked off(划掉（清单上的项目）) another country on his list: his 191st. The UN has 193 member states. Mr Nims is among a growing number of “country counters” trying to visit them all. Last year a record 82 people claimed to have achieved the feat(壮举，功绩) of travelling to all 193 countries, according to NomadMania, an online hub for obsessive adventurers.
这一切都不足以阻止美国人特德·尼姆斯，他最近在那里待了一周，并因此从他的清单上又划掉了一个国家：他的第191个。联合国共有193个成员国。尼姆斯先生是越来越多的“国家计数器”之一，他们试图访问所有国家。据NomadMania（一个为痴迷冒险者设立的在线平台）称，去年有82人宣称完成了访问全部193个国家的壮举，创下纪录。
When the Travellers’ Century Club launched in 1954, only a fortunate few could boast(夸耀，吹嘘) of having been to 100 countries, the minimum required to join. Today the social group is nearly 2,000-strong, having enjoyed what it calls a “pretty significant upswing” in recent years. Serious travellers are whiling away hours(消磨时间) on platforms such as NomadMania and Most Travelled People, where there are leaderboards and debates about what counts as a visit. (An airport transit is acceptable to some but dismissed by the most hardcore(硬核的，核心的) as too easy.)
当“旅行者世纪俱乐部”于1954年成立时，只有少数幸运儿能夸口去过100个国家——这是加入的最低要求。如今这个社交团体已接近2000人，近年来经历了它所谓的“相当显著的上升”。认真的旅行者们会在NomadMania和Most Travelled People等平台上消磨数小时，那里有排行榜和关于什么才算访问的争论。（机场中转对一些人来说可以接受，但被最硬核的旅行者斥为太容易。）
