新視野大學(xué)英語(yǔ)第三版讀寫(xiě)教程第三冊(cè)u(píng)nit4a

1、The surprising purpose of travel令人驚奇的旅行目的Its 4:15 in the morning, and my alarm clock has juststolen away a lovely dream. I almost return back tosleep before my eye catches my packed suitcaseand I gr oan, remembering that Im going to theairport. The taxi is late and then lost, and I m gettingincreasi

2、ngly nervous that Ill miss my flight. I run inwhen we arrive, stag ger through securityand finallyget to my gate. After all the trouble of this mornin g,my flightis canceled and Im stuck in this terminalfor the next 218 minutes, an d my only consolationis a cup of complimentaryairport is traveling,

3、a burdens omeseries of running and waiting, and after countless hours, finallygetting there.早晨四點(diǎn)一刻，鬧鐘把我從好夢(mèng)中驚醒，要不是突然看見(jiàn)早已整理好的行李箱，我?guī)缀跤忠?。想起?lái)還要去機(jī)場(chǎng)，我嘆了口氣。出租車(chē)來(lái)晚了，而且在途中迷了路，我愈來(lái)愈擔(dān)憂(yōu)會(huì)趕不上飛機(jī)。出租車(chē)一到機(jī)場(chǎng)我就沖進(jìn)去，跌跌撞撞通過(guò)安檢處，終于，我來(lái)到了登機(jī)口。經(jīng)歷這一早所有的麻煩事，我乘坐的航班卻被取消了。在接下來(lái)的 218 分鐘里，我被困在了機(jī)場(chǎng)，唯一感覺(jué)安慰的是機(jī)場(chǎng)提供的一杯免費(fèi)咖啡。這就是旅行，讓人心煩的跑跑停停。最終，在不

4、知通過(guò)量少小時(shí)以后，終于抵達(dá)要去的地方。Why do we travel? I dont mind the actual flying, the wonder of being airborne in a dense metalbird. The rest of the journey, however, can feel like a tediousless on in the ills of modernity,from the predawn x-ray screening to the sad airport mal ls selling clusters of keepsakes.

5、Its theresult of a globalized world, and it sucks.咱們?yōu)楹我眯?？其?shí)，我并非介懷飛行本身，在這樣一個(gè)密實(shí)的金屬大鳥(niǎo)中飛行，讓我感到很奇妙。但是，旅程其余的部份，從一大早X 光檢查到出售大堆紀(jì)念品的糟糕的機(jī)場(chǎng)商場(chǎng)，感覺(jué)就像是關(guān)于現(xiàn)代社會(huì)弊病的乏味課程。這是全世界化的結(jié)果，它糟糕透了。Sometimes, of course, we travel because we need to. Because in this digital ag e, there is stillsomething important about the handsha

6、keat a business luncheon. Or eating moms specialfood on Thanksgiving. Or seeing your girlfriend on your 2-year anniversary.固然，有時(shí)候咱們旅行是因?yàn)樵蹅冃枰ヂ眯小Ｒ驗(yàn)榧幢阍谶@個(gè)數(shù)字化時(shí)期，咱們?nèi)匀挥幸恍┖苤匾氖虑橐プ觯热缭谏虅?wù)午飯中與生意伙伴握手，或是在感恩節(jié)此日吃上媽媽特別準(zhǔn)備的食物，或是在你和你女朋友的兩周年紀(jì)念日此日去看她。But most travel is decidedly optional. Only corporatetravel, about 3

7、0% of trip s over 50 miles,is truly compulsory. Instead, we travel because we want to, because the annoyances of theairport are offsetby the thrill of being someplace new. Bec ause work is stressfuland our blood pressureis too high and we need a vacation somewhere tropical. Because home is the fligh

8、ts are on sale. Because Paris is Pari s.可是大多數(shù)旅行是可去可不去的，在超過(guò) 50 英里的旅行中，只有 30%屬于真正必需的商務(wù)旅行。咱們旅行是因?yàn)樵蹅兿胍ヂ眯?，因?yàn)榈揭粋€(gè)新地方的興奮和激動(dòng)可以抵消在機(jī)場(chǎng)的各類(lèi)煩心事；因?yàn)楣ぷ鲏毫μ螅蹅兊难獕禾?，咱們要去熱帶地域度假；因?yàn)樵诩覍?shí)在太無(wú)聊；因?yàn)楹桨喽荚诖蛘郏灰驗(yàn)榘屠璁吘故前屠?。Thanks to modern aviation, we can now movethrough space at an inhuman sp eed. For the firsttime in human history,

9、 we can outrun the sun andmove from one hemisphereto another in a singleday. Of course, its not enough to simply get onaplane. If we want to realize the creativebenefits oftravel, then we have to re-thin k its overallpeople, after all, escapeto Paris so they donthave to think about tho se troubles t

10、hey left heres the irony: Our mind is most likely tosolveour most stu bbornproblems while we aresitting in luxuryin a Left Bank cafe. So, instead of co ntemplating that buttery dessert, weshould be consciousof those domesticissue s we just cant solve.多虧了現(xiàn)代航空技術(shù)，咱們此刻可以以非凡的速度在空中穿梭。在人類(lèi)歷史中，這是咱們第一次超過(guò)太陽(yáng)在短短

11、一天中從一個(gè)半球抵達(dá)另一個(gè)半球。固然，僅僅往飛機(jī)上一坐是不夠的。咱們要想熟悉到旅行在提高創(chuàng)新力方面的價(jià)值，還得再全面考慮其目的。畢竟， 大多數(shù)人逃到巴黎，是因?yàn)檫@樣他們就可以夠沒(méi)必要考慮家里的那些煩心事?？墒?，具有諷刺意味的是，當(dāng)咱們坐在奢華的左岸咖啡館時(shí)，咱們的頭腦極有可能能解決那些最棘手的問(wèn)題。因此，咱們應(yīng)該考慮那些在家里解決不了的問(wèn)題，而不是琢磨那些奶油甜點(diǎn)。The larger lesson, though, is that our thoughts are saturatedwith the familiar. The brain is aspace of near infinite

12、possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosingwhat not to notice. As a result, creativityis traded away for efficiency; we think in finite,literal prose, not symbolic verse. A bit of distanc e, however, helps loosenthe cognitivechains that imprisonus, making it easier to m

13、ingle the new with the old; the mundaneisgrasped from a slightlymore abstra ct perspective. According to research, the experience ofan exoticculture endows us with a valuableopen-mindedness, making it easier to realize thateven a trivial thing can have multiplemeanings. Consider the act of leaving f

14、ood on the plate:I n China, this is often seen as a compliment, a signalthat the host has provided enough toeat. But in America the same act is a subtle insult, an indicationthat the f ood wasnt goodenough to finish.但更應(yīng)該知道的是咱們的思想被熟悉的東西所充滿(mǎn)。大腦是一個(gè)幾乎具有無(wú)窮可能性的空間，這就意味著它花了大量的時(shí)間和精力選擇不去注意什么。因此，咱們捐軀創(chuàng)造力來(lái)?yè)Q取效率。咱們

15、以字義明確的散文方式思考，而非以具有象征意義的詩(shī)歌方式思考。但是，一點(diǎn)的距離就可以夠幫忙咱們放松禁錮咱們認(rèn)知的鏈條，使新舊思想的結(jié)合更易，對(duì)平淡無(wú)奇的事情可從更抽象的角度加以認(rèn)知。有研究指出，體驗(yàn)異國(guó)文化可以給予咱們寶貴的開(kāi)放性思維，使咱們更易明白即即是微乎其微的事物也可以有多種意義。想一想把食物剩在盤(pán)子里這個(gè)行為：在中國(guó)，這通常被看成是一種贊美，說(shuō)明主人提供了足夠的食物。可是在美國(guó)， 一樣的行為卻暗含侮辱，表明食物不夠好，人們不肯意吃完。Such multicultural contrasts mean that seasonedtravelers are open to ambigui t

16、y, willingto realizethat there are decidedly different (and equally valid)ways of in terpreting the world. This, in turn, allowsthem to expandthe circumferenceof the ir“cognitiveinputs as they refuseto settlefor theirfirst answers and initialgues ses.這種多元文化對(duì)比說(shuō)明，經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐碩的旅行者會(huì)接受對(duì)事物的多樣性解讀，他們欣然熟悉到對(duì)這個(gè)世界可以有截然

17、不同（但卻一樣有效）的方式進(jìn)行解釋。這也從而讓他們擴(kuò)大了“認(rèn)知輸入”的范圍，因?yàn)樗麄兙芙^僅僅知足于他們的最初答案和先前的猜想。Of course, this mental flexibilitydoesnt come from mere distance, a simple c hange in latitudeand longitude. Instead, this renaissanceof creativityappears to be a side effect of difference:We need to change cultures, to experience the di

18、sori enting diversityof human traditions. Thesame facets of foreign travel that are soconfusing(Do I tip the waiter? Where is this traintaking me?) turn out to have a la sting impact, making us more creativebecause were less insular. Were reminded of all that we dont know, which is nearly everything

19、; were surprisedby the const ant streamof surprises. Even in this globalized age, we can still be amazed at allth e earthlythings that werent included in the Lets Go guidebook and that certainly dont existback home.固然，這種思維的靈活性不單單來(lái)自純粹的距離轉(zhuǎn)變，即簡(jiǎn)單的經(jīng)緯度的轉(zhuǎn)變。相反， 這種創(chuàng)造力的振興似乎是不同所帶來(lái)的副產(chǎn)品：咱們需要處于不同的文化中，體驗(yàn)人類(lèi)傳統(tǒng) 中紛繁復(fù)雜的多樣性。在國(guó)外旅行中讓人迷惑的同一個(gè)方面的問(wèn)題（如我該給服務(wù)生小費(fèi)嗎？ 火車(chē)要把我?guī)У侥睦?？），產(chǎn)生了一種持久的影響，使咱們加倍具有創(chuàng)造性，因?yàn)樵蹅冊(cè)僖?不那么視野狹隘了。咱們了解了咱們不知道的東西，而這些東西幾乎涵蓋了一切；咱們對(duì)接 連不斷的驚喜感到驚奇。即便在這個(gè)全世界化的時(shí)期，咱們?nèi)匀粫?huì)對(duì)所有未包括在旅行指 南中的、平常的東西感到驚奇，而這些東西在自己家中也不存在。So, lets not pretendthat travel doesnt have its drawbacks,