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歌手名：新概念第四册
歌曲名：47
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Lesson 47 The great escape
First listen and then answer the following question.
What is one of the features of modern camping
where nationa-lity is concern-ed?
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 assum-ption,
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 Bentl-ey.
More likely,Ford Escort will be hub to hub
with Renault or Mercedes,
but rarely with bicycles made for two.
That the equip-ment of modern camping
becomes yearly more sophistic-ated
is an entertain-ing paradox for the cynic,
a brighter pro-mise 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 comfor-ts,
but because he is afraid of them. Afflu-ent 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 matter 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 hier-archies to darken his holiday days.
To such motives,yet another must be added.
The contemporary phenomenon of car worship
is to be explain-ed not least
by the sense of independence and freedom that ow-nership 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 arrivi-ng
at the holiday paradise entir-ely
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,
outsideor, as likely, part of-the tent.
Idealists have objected to the practice of camping,
as to the pack-age tour,
that the trave-ler abroad thereby denies himself
the opportunity of getting to know the people
of the country visited. Insula-rity 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 cosmopo-litan, Granted,
a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic
that seems common to most Mediterranean sites;
but as yet th-ere is no over-whelmingly
specialized patronage.
Notices forbi-dding the open-air drying of clothes,
or the use of water points for car washing,
or those invit-ing ＇our cam-ping friends＇
to a dance or a boat trip are printed
not only in French or Italian or Spanish,
but also in Eng-lish,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 ind-ependent 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 reco-gnized camp boundary
or to four walls. But most probably
it will all depe-nd 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 scou-ting is likely to preserve the freedoms so dear
to the heart of the eternal Boy Scout.