新概念英语第四册课文翻译及学习笔记Lesson47文档格式.docx

1、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 carelessl

2、y into his twenty pounds worth of space at one of Europes 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 a

3、n 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 S

4、plendide 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 dhotel.

5、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 dark

6、en 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 ones own front door to home or foreign

7、hills or sands and back again, everything is to hand. Not only are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise entirely within ones 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 like

8、ly, 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 s

9、urvive 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 Mediterrane

10、an 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 Engl

11、ish, German and Dutch. At meal times the odour of sauerkraut vies with that of garlic. The Frenchmans breakfast coffee competes with the Englishmans bacon and eggs.Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say. Municipalities

12、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, whe

13、ther 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 生词和短语】assumption n. 假定manoeuvre v.

14、 （驱车）移动myriad adj. 无数的paradox n. 自相矛盾的事cynic n. 愤世嫉俗者sociologist n. 社会学家shun v. 避开affluent adj. 富有的chambermaid n. 女招待员boo b. 呸的一声maitre dhotel n. 法语总管snobbery n. 势利hierarchy n. 等级制度entail v. 便成为必要inclement adj. 险恶的package tour 由旅行社安排一切的一揽子旅游insularity n. 偏狭cater v. 迎合exclusively adv. 排他地cosmopolitan

15、 adj. 世界的preponderance n. 优势overwhelmingly adv. 以压倒优势地，清一色地patronage n. 恩惠，惠顾sauerkraut n. 泡菜vie v. 竞争municipality n. 市政*itinerant n. 巡回者heath v. 荒地alienate v. 便疏远eternal adj. 永久的【课文注释】1.it is far from 远不是be far from 毫不, 一点也不, 远非, 几乎相反例句：His explanation was far from satisfactory.他的解释一点也不令人满意。What he said was far from the truth.他所说的远非事实。2.twenty pounds worth of space 价值20镑的空地，其