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一、原文
I have never been able to understand people who don’t see the point in traveling. The common reason is that traveling is a waste of time and money.
I’ve heard some are scared to travel too far away. I can’t help but feel sorry particularly for those who perceive the experience of seeing a new place as a 100 percent negative one.
Telling them stories about unusual encounters doesn’t result in the expected curiosity but a “Why would you want to go there!?” It makes me lose faith in humanity.
Experience is the best teacher and knowledge is power. The things traveling can teach you are beautiful because you learn to trust in what you see rather than what you are told.
It was Mark Twain who said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness,” which in my mind goes down as the closest to the truth about traveling. Too bad there aren’t enough people with the means to travel actually doing it.
If you have the means to go abroad, you should do it despite going out of your comfort zone. You might realize why you loved it once you’re back home.
I think traveling is also the best thing you could do if you feel depressed at home, don’t know what to do with your future, your life, your partner--anything. Once you are away, preferably somewhere very new and unknown, you are forced to adapt and meet people. This works especially if you travel alone.
A new life and especially the new relationships you build, even if only for a short period of time, reveal opportunities and views you never would have thought of and had otherwise.
二、重点词汇
1.perceive:
to understand or think of sb/s.th in a particular way.
Collocation: perceive sb/s.th as s.th 将…理解为；将…视为；认为
E.g.: This discovery was perceived as a major breakthrough.
这一发现被视为一项重大突破。
E.g.: She did not perceive herself as disabled.
她没有把自己看成残疾人。
2. fatal:
causing death; leading to failure or disaster 致命的；灾难性的
E.g.: There was a fatal flaw in the plan.
3. bigotry:
the state of feeling, or the act of expressing, strong, unreasonable beliefs or opinions 偏执；偏执的行为
E.g.: He deplored religious bigotry.
他谴责了宗教偏执的行为。
三、 译文
我一直无法理解那些不明白旅行的意义的人。最常见的原因是他们认为旅行浪费时间和金钱。
我听说有些人害怕走得太远。我不禁感到遗憾，尤其是那些把看到一个新地方的经历视为百分之百负面的人。
告诉他们关于不寻常遭遇的故事不会引起他们的好奇，而是他们会问“你为什么想去那里!?”它让我对人性失去信心。
经验是最好的老师，知识就是力量。旅行能教会你的东西是美好的，因为你学会了相信你所看到的，而不是别人告诉你的。
马克·吐温曾说过:“旅行对偏见、偏执和狭隘是致命的。”在我看来，这是最接近旅行的真理。可惜的是没有足够多的人有足够的财力去旅行。
如果你有出国的办法，尽管走出了你的舒适区，你也应该去做。等你回到家，你就会明白为什么你会喜欢它了。
我认为，如果你在家里感到沮丧，不知道如何对待你的未来、你的生活、你的伴侣——任何事情，旅行也是你可以做的最好的事情。一旦你离开了，最好是去一个非常陌生的地方，你就不得不去适应和认识别人。如果你独自旅行，这个方法尤其有效。
新的生活，尤其是你建立的新关系，即使只是很短的一段时间，也会给你带来你从未想过的机会和观点。
一审一校│余珊珊
二审二校│倪娅
三审三校│吴芹
