通過文章的閱讀學習英語六級詞匯
通過文章閱讀學習英語六級詞匯 Unit Twenty
Camping
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.
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 traveler is often a man who dislikes the Splendide and the Bellavista, not because he cannot afford or shun their material comforts, but because he is afraid of them. 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 motorcar 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 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 are there, outside or, as likely, part of the tent.
Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour, that the traveler 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 odor 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 naturally want to secure the campers site fees and other custom. 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.
initial a.開始的,最初的
initiate vt.1.開始,創造,發起 2.使初步了解 3.接納 n.新加入組織的人
outlay n.1.花費 2.費用 vt.花費,花錢
paradox n.1.似乎矛盾而正確的說法 2.自相矛盾的人或事物
cynical a.1.憤世嫉俗的,悲觀的 2.挑剔挖苦的
cynic n.憤世嫉俗者
thesis n.1.論文,畢業論文 2.論題,論點
sociology n.社會學
sociologist n.社會學家
shun vt.回避,避免
hierarchy n.1.等級制度 2.統治集團,領導層
entail vt.使承擔,使成為必要,需要
necessitate vt.使成為必要,需要
exquisite a.1.精美的,精致的 2.敏銳的,有高度鑒賞力的 3.劇烈的,感覺強烈的
paradise n.天堂,樂園
nasty a.1.令人討厭的,令人厭惡的 2.難弄的,困難的 3.嚴重的,惡劣的,險惡的 4.下流的
insularity n.1.島國性質 2.偏狹性,僵化
cater vi.1.滿足需要,迎合 2.承辦酒席
exclusive a.1.奢華的,高級的 2.獨有的,獨享的 3.排斥的,排他的 4.不包括的,不把計算在內的
inclusive a.1.包括一切的 2.所有數目包括在內的
cosmopolitan a.1.世界性的,全球的 2.世界主義的,四海為家的 n.世界主義者,四海為家
overwhelm vt.使受不了,使不知所措
overwhelming a.1.勢不可擋的 2.巨大的
patron n.1.資助人,贊助人 2.老主顧 patronage n.資助,贊助,惠顧,光顧
odor n.氣味
fragrance n.芳香,香氣,香味
perfume n.香水,香料
sniff v.1.嗅,聞 2.以鼻吸氣,用力吸入 n.1.嗅;聞 2.吸氣
sauerkraut n.泡菜
vie vi.競爭,相爭
municipal a.市的,市政的 municipality n.市政當局
heath n.灌木
shrub n.灌木
bamboo n.竹子
cane n.1.莖 2.手杖
litter n.1.廢棄物 2.一窩 3.雜亂的東西 vt.亂扔東西于
alienate vt.1.使疏遠,使不友好 2.轉讓
通過文章閱讀學習英語六級詞匯 Unit Twenty
Camping
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.
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 traveler is often a man who dislikes the Splendide and the Bellavista, not because he cannot afford or shun their material comforts, but because he is afraid of them. 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 motorcar 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 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 are there, outside or, as likely, part of the tent.
Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour, that the traveler 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 odor 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 naturally want to secure the campers site fees and other custom. 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.
initial a.開始的,最初的
initiate vt.1.開始,創造,發起 2.使初步了解 3.接納 n.新加入組織的人
outlay n.1.花費 2.費用 vt.花費,花錢
paradox n.1.似乎矛盾而正確的說法 2.自相矛盾的人或事物
cynical a.1.憤世嫉俗的,悲觀的 2.挑剔挖苦的
cynic n.憤世嫉俗者
thesis n.1.論文,畢業論文 2.論題,論點
sociology n.社會學
sociologist n.社會學家
shun vt.回避,避免
hierarchy n.1.等級制度 2.統治集團,領導層
entail vt.使承擔,使成為必要,需要
necessitate vt.使成為必要,需要
exquisite a.1.精美的,精致的 2.敏銳的,有高度鑒賞力的 3.劇烈的,感覺強烈的
paradise n.天堂,樂園
nasty a.1.令人討厭的,令人厭惡的 2.難弄的,困難的 3.嚴重的,惡劣的,險惡的 4.下流的
insularity n.1.島國性質 2.偏狹性,僵化
cater vi.1.滿足需要,迎合 2.承辦酒席
exclusive a.1.奢華的,高級的 2.獨有的,獨享的 3.排斥的,排他的 4.不包括的,不把計算在內的
inclusive a.1.包括一切的 2.所有數目包括在內的
cosmopolitan a.1.世界性的,全球的 2.世界主義的,四海為家的 n.世界主義者,四海為家
overwhelm vt.使受不了,使不知所措
overwhelming a.1.勢不可擋的 2.巨大的
patron n.1.資助人,贊助人 2.老主顧 patronage n.資助,贊助,惠顧,光顧
odor n.氣味
fragrance n.芳香,香氣,香味
perfume n.香水,香料
sniff v.1.嗅,聞 2.以鼻吸氣,用力吸入 n.1.嗅;聞 2.吸氣
sauerkraut n.泡菜
vie vi.競爭,相爭
municipal a.市的,市政的 municipality n.市政當局
heath n.灌木
shrub n.灌木
bamboo n.竹子
cane n.1.莖 2.手杖
litter n.1.廢棄物 2.一窩 3.雜亂的東西 vt.亂扔東西于
alienate vt.1.使疏遠,使不友好 2.轉讓
