新视野大学英语第三版读写教程第三册 Unit4A

The surprising purpose of travel

令人惊奇的旅行目的

It's 4:15 in the morning, and my alarm clock has juststolen away a lovely dream. I almost return b

ack tosleep before my eye catches my packed

suitcase

and I

groan

, remembering that I'm going to

theairport. The taxi is late and then lost, and I'm gettingincreasingly nervous that I'll miss my

flig

ht

. I run inwhen we arrive, stagger through

security

and finallyget to my gate. After all the troubl

e of this morning,my

flight

is canceled and I'm stuck in this

terminal

for the next 218

minutes

, an

d my only

consolation

is a cup of

complimentary

airport is traveling, a

burdensome

se

ries of running and waiting, and after countless hours, finallygetting there.

闹钟把我从美梦中惊醒，

要不是突 然看见早已收拾好的行李箱，

我几乎又要

睡着。想起来还要去机 场，我叹了口气。出租车来晚了，并且在途中迷了路，我越来越担心

会赶不上飞机。

出租车一到机场我就冲进去，

跌跌撞撞通过安检处，

终于，

我来到了登机口。

经历这一早所有的麻烦事，我 乘坐的航班却被取消了。在接下来的

218

分钟里，我被困在

了机场，唯一觉得安慰的是机场提供的一杯免费咖啡。这就是 旅行，让人心烦的跑跑停停。

最终，在不知经过多少小时之后，终于到达要去的地方。< /p>

Why do we travel? I don't mind the actual flying, the wonder of being airborne in a dense metalbi

rd. The rest of the journey, however, can feel like a

tedious

lesson in the ills of modernity,from th

e predawn x-ray screening to the sad airport malls selling clusters of keepsakes. It's theresult of a

globalized world, and it sucks.

我们为什么要旅行？其实，

我并不介意飞行本身，

在这 样一个密实的金属大鸟中飞行，

让我

感到很奇妙。

然而，

旅程其余的部分，

从一大早

< br> X

光检查到出售大堆纪念品的糟糕的机场商

场，感觉 就像是关于现代社会弊病的乏味课程。这是全球化的结果，它糟糕透了。

Sometimes, of course, we travel because we need to. Because in this digital age, there is stillsome

thing important about the

handshake

at a business luncheon. Or eating mom's specialfood on Th

anksgiving. Or seeing your girlfriend on your 2-year anniversary.

当然，

< br>有时候我们旅行是因为我们需要去旅行。

因为即使在这个数字化时代，

些很重要的事情要去做，

比如在商务 午餐中与生意伙伴握手，

或是在感恩节这天吃上妈妈特

别准备的 食物，或是在你和你女朋友的两周年纪念日这天去看她。

But most travel is decidedly

optional

. Only

corporate

travel, about 30% of trips over 50 miles,is tr

uly compulsory. Instead, we travel because we want to, because the annoyances of theairport are

offset

by the thrill of being someplace new. Because work is

stressful

and our blood

pressure

is t

oo high and we need a vacation somewhere

tropical

. Because home is

boring

.Because the flights

are on sale. Because Paris is Paris.

但是大多数旅行是可去可不去的，在超过

50

英里的旅行中，只有

30%

属于真正必需的商

务旅行。

我们旅行是因为我们想要去旅行，

因为到一个新地方的兴奋和激动可以抵消在 机场

的各种烦心事；

因为工作压力太大，

我们的血压太高，我们要去热带地区度假；因为在家实

在太无聊；因为航班都在打折； 因为巴黎毕竟是巴黎。

Thanks to modern aviation, we can now movethrough space at an inhuman speed. For the firstti

me in human history, we can outrun the sun andmove from one

hemisphere

to another in a singl

eday. Of course, it's not enough to simply get on a

plane

. If we want to realize the

creative

benefit

s oftravel, then we have to re-think its

overall

people, after all,

escape

to Paris so t