💬 新概念英语第四册

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not because he cannot afford, or shuns, their meterial comforts, but because he is afraid of them.

这并不是因为他们付不起钱，也不是为了躲避物质享受，而是因为他们害怕酒店。

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Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure what, to tip the doorman or the chambermaid.

他们可能很富有，但给看门人和房间女服务员多少小费，心中却根本没有数；

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Master in his own house, he has little idea of when to say boo to a maitre d'hotel.

他们在家可能是主人，但不知道什么时候才能对酒店的经理表示不满。

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From all such fears camping releases him.

露营使人们免除了这些忧虑。

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Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists,

诚然，露营地本身也存在以露营装备和方式取人的势利现象，

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but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with.

但如果有这种情况，露营者也容易理解，知道如何对付，

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There is no superior 'they' in the shape of managements and hotel hierarchies to darken his holiday days.

但在露营地里根本不会有管人的人上人"和酒店里的等级制度来使露营者的假日过得阴郁低沉。

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To such motives, yet another must be added.

除了以上动机外，还应再加上一个。

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The contemporary phenomenon of motor-car worship is to be explained not least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails.

当前崇拜汽车现象可以用与所有权相伴的独立和自由意识来解释。

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To this pleasure camping gives an exquisite refinement.

因此开车去露营会给这种快乐意识增加一种优雅意境。

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From one's own front door to home or foreign hills or sands and back again, everything is to hand.

从自己的家门出发到国内国外的山区或沙滩上露营然后返回，一切都很便利。

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Not only are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise entirely within one's own command and keeping,

完全在自己掌握之中的私人汽车不仅是到达假日天堂的工具，

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but the means of escape from holiday hell(if the beach proves too crowded, the local weather too inclement)

而且也是逃离假日地狱（如海滩太挤，当地天气恶劣）的方便工具，

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are there, outside--or, as likely, part of--the tent.

因为汽车就停在帐篷外面，或者汽车本身可能就是露营帐篷的一个组成部分。

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Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour,

理想主义者像反对旅行社安排一切的一揽子旅游一样反对露营的作法，

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that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited.

说这种封闭的作法使到国外旅游者失去了了解所去国家人民的机会。

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Insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand.

他们争论说，心胸狭窄和自我封闭是并存的。

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The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place.

但这种说法在受人欢迎的欧洲露营场地是站不住脚的。

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Holiday hotels tend to cater for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively.

假日旅馆有只接待来自一个国家的旅游者的倾向，有时会达到排他的程度。

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Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan.

而露营驻地则相反，是高度世界性的。

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Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites;

在大多数地中海露营地里，德国人占优势似乎是个普遍现象，

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but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage.

确实如此，但并没有特别的优待。

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Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing,

禁止露天晒衣服、禁止用水龙头冲洗汽车的布告

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or those inviting 'our camping friends' to a dance or a boat trip are printed not only in French or Italian or Spanish,

和邀请露营朋友参加舞会、乘船观光的招贴不仅印成法语、意大利语、西班牙语，

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but also in English, German and Dutch.

而且也印成英语、德语、荷兰语。

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At meal times the odour of sauerkraut vies with that of garlic.

用饭的时候，德国泡菜味和大蒜味争相散发，

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The Frenchman's breakfast coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.

法国人的早点咖啡和英国人的咸肉煎蛋竞相比美。

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Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.

有组织的露营活动的明显发展是否意味着较独立的自我封闭式露营的最终消失，还很难说。

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Municipalities naturally want to secure the campers' site fees and other custom.

市政当局当然希望获得露营者的场地费和其他光临的好处，

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Police are wary of itinerants who cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls.

警察则对那些查不出有固定营地或住处的游荡者保持警惕。