【課文】
First listen and then answer the following question.
聽錄音，然后回答以下問題。
What is one of the features of modern camping where nationality is concerned?
Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since after the initial outlay upon equipment, or through hiring it, the total expense can be far less than the cost of hotels. But, contrary to a popular assumption, it is far from being the only one, or even the greatest. The man who manoeuvres carelessly into his twenty pounds' worth of space at one of Europe's myriad permanent sites may find himself bumping a Bentley. More likely, Ford Escort will be hub to hub with Renault or Mercedes, but rarely with bicycles made for two.
That the equipment of modern camping becomes yearly more sophisticated is an entertaining paradox for the cynic, a brighter promise for the hopeful traveler who has sworn to get away from it all. It also provides and some student sociologist might care to base his thesis upon the phenomenon -- an escape of another kind. The modern traveller is often a man who dislikes the Splendide and the Bellavista, not because he cannot afford, or shuns their material comforts. but because he is afraid of them. Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure what to tip the doorman or the chambermaid. Master in his own house, he has little idea of when to say boo to a maitre d'hotel.
From all such fears camping releases him. Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists; but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with. There is no superior 'they' in the shape of managements and hotel hierarchies to darken his holiday days.
To such motives, yet another must be added. The contemporary phenomenon of car worship is to be explained not least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails. To this pleasure camping gives an exquisite refinement.
From one's own front door to home or foreign hills or sands and back again, everything is to hand. Not only are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise entirely within one's own command and keeping, but the means of escape from holiday hell (if the beach proves too crowded, the local weather too inclement) are there, outside -- or, as likely, part of -- the tent.
Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to package tour, that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited. Insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand. The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place. Holiday hotels tend to cater for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively. Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan. Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage. Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing, or those inviting 'our camping friends' to a dance or a boat trip are printed not only in French or Italian or Spanish, but also in English, German and Dutch. At meal times the odour of sauerkraut vies with that of garlic. The Frenchman's breakfast coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.
Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say. Municipalities naturally want to secure the campers' site fees and other custom. Police are wary of itinerants who cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls. But most probably it will all depend upon campers themselves: how many heath fires they cause; how much litter they leave; in short, whether or not they wholly alienate landowners and those who live in the countryside. Only good scouting is likely to preserve the freedoms so dear to the heart of the eternal Boy Scout.
NIGEL BUXTON The Great Escape from The Weekend Telegraph
【New words and expressions 生詞和短語】
assumption n. 假定
manoeuvre v. (驅車)移動
myriad adj. 無數(shù)的
paradox n. 自相矛盾的事
cynic n. 憤世嫉俗者
sociologist n. 社會學家
shun v. 避開
affluent adj. 富有的
chambermaid n. 女招待員
boo b. 呸的一聲
maitre d'hotel n. [法語]總管
snobbery n. 勢利
hierarchy n. 等級制度
entail v. 便成為必要
inclement adj. 險惡的
package tour 由旅行社安排一切的一攬子旅游
insularity n. 偏狹
cater v. 迎合
exclusively adv. 排他地
cosmopolitan adj. 世界的
preponderance n. 優(yōu)勢
overwhelmingly adv. 以壓倒優(yōu)勢地，清一色地
patronage n. 恩惠，惠顧
sauerkraut n. 泡菜
vie v. 競爭
municipality n. 市政*
itinerant n. 巡回者
heath v. 荒地
alienate v. 便疏遠
eternal adj. 永久的
【課文注釋】
1.it is far from 遠不是
be far from 毫不, 一點也不, 遠非, 幾乎相反
例句：His explanation was far from satisfactory.
他的解釋一點也不令人滿意。
What he said was far from the truth.
他所說的遠非事實。
2.twenty pounds' worth of space 價值20鎊的空地，其中worth是名詞。
3.myriad permanent sites 無數(shù)的常年營地
4.hub to hub with 輪轂與……輪轂相接
5.bicycles made for two 雙人自行車
6.the Splendide and the Bellavista 兩大酒店的名字
7.shun 避開，避免
例句：They shun personal fame and gains.
他們不計個人名利。
This recluse shunned all company.
這位隱士不與任何人來往。
Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
智者熱愛真理,愚者回避真理。
He shunned meeting any of his friends.
他避免與他的任何朋友碰面。
8.affluent adj.富有的
例句：We live in an affluent society .
我們生活在一個富裕的社會中。
He was born to an affluent family.
他生在富裕人家。
A car and a house are considered as necessities in an affluent society.
在一個富裕的社會里,汽車和洋房都被當作是必需品。
9.say boo to a maitre d'hotel 對酒店的經(jīng)理表示不滿。say boo to a maitre d'hotel , 是從 not say boo to a goose(非常膽小，不敢得罪)演變而來的。在這個成語中， a goose 常被人們幽默地換成其他字眼。
10.Granted...but "雖然……但是……"這種句型中的Granted總放在句首，意思是Yes，相當于一個連接副詞的作用。
11.in the shape of 以……形式出現(xiàn)的
12.entail vt.
①使必需
例句：This job entails a lot of hard work.
這項工作需要十分努力。
It will entail driving a long distance every day.
這意味著每天都要長途開車。
②帶來
例句：The alteration would entail an expenditure of 50 pounds.
此項改變將帶來為數(shù)五十英磅的花費。
③限定繼承
例句：He would have sold the property long ago had it not been entailed.
這些財產(chǎn)若非限定繼承的話，他早就賣掉了。
13.be to hand 垂手可得
14.cater for 迎合……
例句：TV must cater for many different tastes.
電視節(jié)目必須迎合各種人的愛好。
Our politicians should learn to cater for the man in the street.
我們的政治家要學會投合廣大普通群眾的需要。
Unfortunately, these firms rarely cater for retail customers, the supposed
beneficiaries of the crusade.
不幸的是，這些公司很少去投合中小投資者的需要，而中小投資者才是這項改革運
動預期中的受益者。
15.be wary of 提防
例句：She was wary of strangers.
她對陌生人很警惕。
I would advise you to be wary of Kevin; he's been gunning for you since you stole
his girlfriend.
我想勸告你提防克文，自從你搶走了他的女朋友以來，他一直在尋找機會報復
你。
16.alienate vt.
①使疏遠
例句：We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.
我們好還是不要與同事們疏遠。
The Prime Minister's policy alienated many of her followers.
首相的政策使很多擁護她的人疏遠了她。
②離間
例句：His attempts to alienate the two friends failed.
他離間那一對朋友的企圖失敗了。
She tried to alienate him from his brother
她企圖離間他和他的兄弟。
③讓與
例句：The law required all citizens to alienate their property to the government.
這部法律要求所有的公民都要把他們的財產(chǎn)轉讓給政府。
The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
行政官員不能將我們領土的任何部分讓給他人。
④麻木
例句：The numbing labor tended to alienate workers.
枯燥的工作可以使工人變得麻木
17.Boy Scout 童子軍
【參考譯文】
圖省錢是露營的一個主要動機，因為除了開始時購置或是租借一套露營裝備外，總費用算起來要比住旅館開支少得多。但是，和一般的看法相反，這決非是僅有的，甚至不是主要的動機。如果一位游客漫不經(jīng)心地駕車駛入歐洲無數(shù)常年營地之一，花20鎊租用一個空位，那么他可能會碰見一輛本特利汽車，更可能會望見一輛福特.康索爾或一輛雷諾或一輛梅塞迪斯并排停放著，不過雙人自行車則不容易看到。
現(xiàn)代露營裝備一年比一年講究，這對那些厭世嫉俗者來說是一件有趣的自相矛盾的事情。而對于發(fā)誓用露營來擺脫煩惱的人來說，卻帶來了更光明的前景。學社會學的大學生來露營是另一種形式的擺脫現(xiàn)實，他們的目的很可能是根據(jù)觀察到的露營現(xiàn)象去寫論文。現(xiàn)代露營旅游的人往往討厭在“斯普蘭迪德”和“貝拉維斯塔”這樣的大酒店，這并不是因為他們付不起錢，也不是為了躲避物質享受，而是因為他們害怕酒店。他們可能很富有，但給看門人和房間女服務多少小費，心中卻根本沒有數(shù);他們在家可能是主人，但不知道什么時候才能對酒店的經(jīng)理表示不滿。
露營使人們免除了這些憂慮。誠然，露營地本身也存在以露營裝備和方式取人的勢利現(xiàn)象，但如果有這種情況，露營者也容易理解，知道如何對付，但在露營地里根本不會有管人的“人上人”和酒店里的等級制度來使露營者的假日過得陰郁低沉。
除以上動機外，還應加上一個。當前崇拜汽車現(xiàn)象可以用與所有權相伴的獨立和自由意識來解釋。因此開車去露營會給這種快樂意識增加一種優(yōu)雅意境。
從自己的家門出發(fā)到國內(nèi)國外的山區(qū)或沙灘上露營然后返回，一切都很便利。完全在自己掌握之中的私人汽車不僅是到達假日天堂的工具，而且也是逃離假日地獄(如海灘太擠，當?shù)靥鞖鈵毫?方便工具，因為汽車就停在帳篷外面，或者汽車本身可能就是露營帳篷的一個組成部分。
理想主義者像反對旅行社安排一切的一攬子旅游一樣反對露營的作法，說這種封閉的作法使到國外旅游者失去了了解所去國家人民的機會。他們爭論說，心胸狹窄和自我封閉是并存的。但這種說法在受人歡迎的歐洲露營地是站不住腳的。假日旅館有只接待來自一個國家的旅游者的傾向，有時會達到排他的程度。而露營駐地則相反，是高度世界性的。在大多數(shù)地中海露營地里，德國人占優(yōu)勢似乎是個普遍現(xiàn)象，確實如此，但并沒有特別的優(yōu)待。禁止露天曬衣服、禁止用水龍頭沖洗汽車的布告和邀請露營朋友參加舞會、乘船觀光的招貼不僅印志法語、意大利語、西班牙語，而且也印成英語、德語、荷蘭語。用飯的時候，德國泡菜味和大蒜味爭相散發(fā)，法國人的早點咖啡和英國人的咸肉煎蛋競相比美。
有組織的露營活動的明顯發(fā)展是否意味著較獨立的自我封閉式露營的終消失，還很難說。市政*當然希望獲得露營者的場地費和其他光臨的好處，警察則對那些查不出有固定營地或住處的游蕩者保持警惕。但重要的或許是露營者自己，即他們引起了多少場野火，留下了多少垃圾。總之，他們是否弄得土地的主人和鄉(xiāng)間的居民同他們反目。只有優(yōu)良的童子軍活動才能保持不朽的童子軍所衷心熱愛的各項自由。
First listen and then answer the following question.
聽錄音，然后回答以下問題。
What is one of the features of modern camping where nationality is concerned?
Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since after the initial outlay upon equipment, or through hiring it, the total expense can be far less than the cost of hotels. But, contrary to a popular assumption, it is far from being the only one, or even the greatest. The man who manoeuvres carelessly into his twenty pounds' worth of space at one of Europe's myriad permanent sites may find himself bumping a Bentley. More likely, Ford Escort will be hub to hub with Renault or Mercedes, but rarely with bicycles made for two.
That the equipment of modern camping becomes yearly more sophisticated is an entertaining paradox for the cynic, a brighter promise for the hopeful traveler who has sworn to get away from it all. It also provides and some student sociologist might care to base his thesis upon the phenomenon -- an escape of another kind. The modern traveller is often a man who dislikes the Splendide and the Bellavista, not because he cannot afford, or shuns their material comforts. but because he is afraid of them. Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure what to tip the doorman or the chambermaid. Master in his own house, he has little idea of when to say boo to a maitre d'hotel.
From all such fears camping releases him. Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists; but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with. There is no superior 'they' in the shape of managements and hotel hierarchies to darken his holiday days.
To such motives, yet another must be added. The contemporary phenomenon of car worship is to be explained not least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails. To this pleasure camping gives an exquisite refinement.
From one's own front door to home or foreign hills or sands and back again, everything is to hand. Not only are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise entirely within one's own command and keeping, but the means of escape from holiday hell (if the beach proves too crowded, the local weather too inclement) are there, outside -- or, as likely, part of -- the tent.
Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to package tour, that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited. Insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand. The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place. Holiday hotels tend to cater for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively. Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan. Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage. Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing, or those inviting 'our camping friends' to a dance or a boat trip are printed not only in French or Italian or Spanish, but also in English, German and Dutch. At meal times the odour of sauerkraut vies with that of garlic. The Frenchman's breakfast coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.
Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say. Municipalities naturally want to secure the campers' site fees and other custom. Police are wary of itinerants who cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls. But most probably it will all depend upon campers themselves: how many heath fires they cause; how much litter they leave; in short, whether or not they wholly alienate landowners and those who live in the countryside. Only good scouting is likely to preserve the freedoms so dear to the heart of the eternal Boy Scout.
NIGEL BUXTON The Great Escape from The Weekend Telegraph
【New words and expressions 生詞和短語】
assumption n. 假定
manoeuvre v. (驅車)移動
myriad adj. 無數(shù)的
paradox n. 自相矛盾的事
cynic n. 憤世嫉俗者
sociologist n. 社會學家
shun v. 避開
affluent adj. 富有的
chambermaid n. 女招待員
boo b. 呸的一聲
maitre d'hotel n. [法語]總管
snobbery n. 勢利
hierarchy n. 等級制度
entail v. 便成為必要
inclement adj. 險惡的
package tour 由旅行社安排一切的一攬子旅游
insularity n. 偏狹
cater v. 迎合
exclusively adv. 排他地
cosmopolitan adj. 世界的
preponderance n. 優(yōu)勢
overwhelmingly adv. 以壓倒優(yōu)勢地，清一色地
patronage n. 恩惠，惠顧
sauerkraut n. 泡菜
vie v. 競爭
municipality n. 市政*
itinerant n. 巡回者
heath v. 荒地
alienate v. 便疏遠
eternal adj. 永久的
【課文注釋】
1.it is far from 遠不是
be far from 毫不, 一點也不, 遠非, 幾乎相反
例句：His explanation was far from satisfactory.
他的解釋一點也不令人滿意。
What he said was far from the truth.
他所說的遠非事實。
2.twenty pounds' worth of space 價值20鎊的空地，其中worth是名詞。
3.myriad permanent sites 無數(shù)的常年營地
4.hub to hub with 輪轂與……輪轂相接
5.bicycles made for two 雙人自行車
6.the Splendide and the Bellavista 兩大酒店的名字
7.shun 避開，避免
例句：They shun personal fame and gains.
他們不計個人名利。
This recluse shunned all company.
這位隱士不與任何人來往。
Wise men love truth, whereas fools shun it.
智者熱愛真理,愚者回避真理。
He shunned meeting any of his friends.
他避免與他的任何朋友碰面。
8.affluent adj.富有的
例句：We live in an affluent society .
我們生活在一個富裕的社會中。
He was born to an affluent family.
他生在富裕人家。
A car and a house are considered as necessities in an affluent society.
在一個富裕的社會里,汽車和洋房都被當作是必需品。
9.say boo to a maitre d'hotel 對酒店的經(jīng)理表示不滿。say boo to a maitre d'hotel , 是從 not say boo to a goose(非常膽小，不敢得罪)演變而來的。在這個成語中， a goose 常被人們幽默地換成其他字眼。
10.Granted...but "雖然……但是……"這種句型中的Granted總放在句首，意思是Yes，相當于一個連接副詞的作用。
11.in the shape of 以……形式出現(xiàn)的
12.entail vt.
①使必需
例句：This job entails a lot of hard work.
這項工作需要十分努力。
It will entail driving a long distance every day.
這意味著每天都要長途開車。
②帶來
例句：The alteration would entail an expenditure of 50 pounds.
此項改變將帶來為數(shù)五十英磅的花費。
③限定繼承
例句：He would have sold the property long ago had it not been entailed.
這些財產(chǎn)若非限定繼承的話，他早就賣掉了。
13.be to hand 垂手可得
14.cater for 迎合……
例句：TV must cater for many different tastes.
電視節(jié)目必須迎合各種人的愛好。
Our politicians should learn to cater for the man in the street.
我們的政治家要學會投合廣大普通群眾的需要。
Unfortunately, these firms rarely cater for retail customers, the supposed
beneficiaries of the crusade.
不幸的是，這些公司很少去投合中小投資者的需要，而中小投資者才是這項改革運
動預期中的受益者。
15.be wary of 提防
例句：She was wary of strangers.
她對陌生人很警惕。
I would advise you to be wary of Kevin; he's been gunning for you since you stole
his girlfriend.
我想勸告你提防克文，自從你搶走了他的女朋友以來，他一直在尋找機會報復
你。
16.alienate vt.
①使疏遠
例句：We'd better not alienate ourselves from the colleagues.
我們好還是不要與同事們疏遠。
The Prime Minister's policy alienated many of her followers.
首相的政策使很多擁護她的人疏遠了她。
②離間
例句：His attempts to alienate the two friends failed.
他離間那一對朋友的企圖失敗了。
She tried to alienate him from his brother
她企圖離間他和他的兄弟。
③讓與
例句：The law required all citizens to alienate their property to the government.
這部法律要求所有的公民都要把他們的財產(chǎn)轉讓給政府。
The executive could not alienate any part of our territory.
行政官員不能將我們領土的任何部分讓給他人。
④麻木
例句：The numbing labor tended to alienate workers.
枯燥的工作可以使工人變得麻木
17.Boy Scout 童子軍
【參考譯文】
圖省錢是露營的一個主要動機，因為除了開始時購置或是租借一套露營裝備外，總費用算起來要比住旅館開支少得多。但是，和一般的看法相反，這決非是僅有的，甚至不是主要的動機。如果一位游客漫不經(jīng)心地駕車駛入歐洲無數(shù)常年營地之一，花20鎊租用一個空位，那么他可能會碰見一輛本特利汽車，更可能會望見一輛福特.康索爾或一輛雷諾或一輛梅塞迪斯并排停放著，不過雙人自行車則不容易看到。
現(xiàn)代露營裝備一年比一年講究，這對那些厭世嫉俗者來說是一件有趣的自相矛盾的事情。而對于發(fā)誓用露營來擺脫煩惱的人來說，卻帶來了更光明的前景。學社會學的大學生來露營是另一種形式的擺脫現(xiàn)實，他們的目的很可能是根據(jù)觀察到的露營現(xiàn)象去寫論文。現(xiàn)代露營旅游的人往往討厭在“斯普蘭迪德”和“貝拉維斯塔”這樣的大酒店，這并不是因為他們付不起錢，也不是為了躲避物質享受，而是因為他們害怕酒店。他們可能很富有，但給看門人和房間女服務多少小費，心中卻根本沒有數(shù);他們在家可能是主人，但不知道什么時候才能對酒店的經(jīng)理表示不滿。
露營使人們免除了這些憂慮。誠然，露營地本身也存在以露營裝備和方式取人的勢利現(xiàn)象，但如果有這種情況，露營者也容易理解，知道如何對付，但在露營地里根本不會有管人的“人上人”和酒店里的等級制度來使露營者的假日過得陰郁低沉。
除以上動機外，還應加上一個。當前崇拜汽車現(xiàn)象可以用與所有權相伴的獨立和自由意識來解釋。因此開車去露營會給這種快樂意識增加一種優(yōu)雅意境。
從自己的家門出發(fā)到國內(nèi)國外的山區(qū)或沙灘上露營然后返回，一切都很便利。完全在自己掌握之中的私人汽車不僅是到達假日天堂的工具，而且也是逃離假日地獄(如海灘太擠，當?shù)靥鞖鈵毫?方便工具，因為汽車就停在帳篷外面，或者汽車本身可能就是露營帳篷的一個組成部分。
理想主義者像反對旅行社安排一切的一攬子旅游一樣反對露營的作法，說這種封閉的作法使到國外旅游者失去了了解所去國家人民的機會。他們爭論說，心胸狹窄和自我封閉是并存的。但這種說法在受人歡迎的歐洲露營地是站不住腳的。假日旅館有只接待來自一個國家的旅游者的傾向，有時會達到排他的程度。而露營駐地則相反，是高度世界性的。在大多數(shù)地中海露營地里，德國人占優(yōu)勢似乎是個普遍現(xiàn)象，確實如此，但并沒有特別的優(yōu)待。禁止露天曬衣服、禁止用水龍頭沖洗汽車的布告和邀請露營朋友參加舞會、乘船觀光的招貼不僅印志法語、意大利語、西班牙語，而且也印成英語、德語、荷蘭語。用飯的時候，德國泡菜味和大蒜味爭相散發(fā)，法國人的早點咖啡和英國人的咸肉煎蛋競相比美。
有組織的露營活動的明顯發(fā)展是否意味著較獨立的自我封閉式露營的終消失，還很難說。市政*當然希望獲得露營者的場地費和其他光臨的好處，警察則對那些查不出有固定營地或住處的游蕩者保持警惕。但重要的或許是露營者自己，即他們引起了多少場野火，留下了多少垃圾。總之，他們是否弄得土地的主人和鄉(xiāng)間的居民同他們反目。只有優(yōu)良的童子軍活動才能保持不朽的童子軍所衷心熱愛的各項自由。