【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 州的沙漠氣候。加利福尼亞的死亡之谷，在夏季始終保持著全世界的最高溫度，有 時(shí)高達(dá)132華氏度。至于山水，那可是多種多樣，引人入勝，頗為壯觀。西部有落基山脈和內(nèi)華達(dá)山脈，那里白雪皚皚；在 東部，有森林覆蓋的阿拉巴契山脈，它的最高峰近7000英尺。這兒有豐富的瀑布群和涓涓小河，既有祥 和寧靜的小湖泊，也有像 GREAT LAKES 那樣的大湖，這里有世界上最大的淡水湖—蘇必利爾湖。那里的波浪像大海波濤一樣洶涌澎湃。冬春季節(jié)，亞里桑那、科羅拉多、和新墨西哥州和潔靜滑雪和眼 、野炊人和度假人的便利。高速路、高等公路、未鋪油的二等公路四通八 達(dá)，從你動(dòng)身之處一直到野外。在空曠的野外，你最擔(dān)心的不是避開旅游高峰，而是怕迷了路！美國為野外活動(dòng)愛好者們所作的特殊貢獻(xiàn)就是建立了眾多的國家公園，及州立公園，這些公園布局漂亮，體現(xiàn)了對(duì)野營愛好者的特殊關(guān)愛。海邊有許多野營營地，這些營地，或隱匿在海灘一連串的沙丘后，或 在海灘茂密的林帶后面。無論你走到哪里，幾乎能找到地方野餐，這些地方設(shè)備齊全，全都配有木制桌 子、長(zhǎng)凳、垃圾桶和洗手間。有很多美國人，不管老少，更愿自己開車野營。車型多種多樣，有特別豪華奢侈的，也有可折疊的輕型 皮卡，許多野營者豪華程度難以想像，深色的冰箱，微波爐，長(zhǎng)絨地毯到彩電，可以很舒服給四個(gè)人提 供宿膳。但這并不僅僅是富人的專利。許多老夫婦把他們大部分積蓄花費(fèi)在―車輪子上的家‖，一年中的大半時(shí)間在國內(nèi)游歷，在他們的有生之 年仍然心醉于渴望到開闊的地方，并且這也是一種省錢的生活方式，如果汽油價(jià)格上揚(yáng)，他們就將減少游歷。即使是行裝最簡(jiǎn)的野營者也不能夠穿過陡峭險(xiǎn)峻、蜿蜒曲折的通往野外的山間小路，這時(shí)野營者常常把 他們的自行車或摩托車?yán)υ谝盃I地前面，然后一身輕松地穿過山間小路，四驅(qū)車上裝著獨(dú)木舟或竹筏子，下水劃船游歷。這些小溪由 國家公園服務(wù)處管理。通往野外，這些探險(xiǎn)者可在小河邊宿營，但禁止進(jìn)入內(nèi)陸腹地。不準(zhǔn)打獵，可以 釣魚，許多小河蜿蜒曲折，水流湍急，從深谷中或從森林茂密的深壑中流出。有時(shí)，偶爾與護(hù)林員相遇，沿河顠游，在得克薩斯州有旅游大牧場(chǎng)。你可以停在與它邊界毗連的地方（相 當(dāng)貴的）做一回牛仔們的生活。其他的戶外探險(xiǎn)運(yùn)動(dòng)，到密歇根密林，穿雪鞋旅行，在各州的雪上開車 旅行，在洛基山脈和阿拉斯加的劃雪，沖浪、劃水、和狩獵。你可以做美國人―偉大的戶外活動(dòng)者‖可作 的許多的其他事情。第四篇：英語課文翻譯Apology of SocratesLet us reflect and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good。for one of two things — either death is a state of nothingness and utter(完全的)unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by dreams, death will be an unspeakable if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed by dreams, and were to pare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king will not find many such days and nights, when pared with the if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is a gain。for eternity is then only a single if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead abide, what good, my friends and judges, can be greater than this? 我們?nèi)绻麖牧硪唤嵌葋硭伎妓劳?，就?huì)發(fā)覺有絕大理由相信死亡是件好事。死亡可能是以下兩種情形其中之一：或者完全沒有知覺的虛無狀態(tài)，或是人們常說的一套，靈魂經(jīng)歷變化，由這個(gè)世界移居到另一個(gè)世界。倘若你認(rèn)為死后并無知覺，死亡猶如無夢(mèng)相擾的安眠，那么死亡真是無可形容的得益了。如果某人要把安恬無夢(mèng)的一夜跟一生中的其它日子相比，看有多少日子比這一夜更美妙愉快，我想他說不出有多少天。不要說平民，就是顯赫的帝王也如此。如果這就是死亡的本質(zhì)，永恒不過是一夜。倘若死亡一如人們常說的那樣，只是遷徙到另一個(gè)世界，那里寄居了所有死去的人，那么，我的諸位朋友，法官，還有什么事情比這樣來得更美妙呢？If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous(正直的)in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die myself, too, shall have a wonderful interest in there meeting and conversing with Palamedes, and Ajax the son of Telamon, and any other ancient hero who has suffered death through an unjust judgment。and there will be no small pleasure, as I think, in paring my own suffering with all, I shall then be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge。as in this world, so also in the next。and I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and who is would not a man give, my judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition(遠(yuǎn)征)。or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too!What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions!In another world they do not put a man to death for asking questions。assuredly besides being happier than we are, they will be immortal, if what is said is ，擺脫了塵世的審判官，卻在這里碰見真淳正直的法官邁諾、拉達(dá)門塞斯、阿克斯、特立普托馬斯，以及一生公正的諸神兒子，那么這歷程就確實(shí)有意義了。如果可以跟俄耳甫斯、謬薩尤斯、赫西亞德、荷馬相互交談，誰不愿意舍棄一切？要是死亡真是這樣，我愿意不斷受死。我很希望碰見帕拉默底斯、蒂拉蒙的兒子埃杰克斯以及受不公平審判而死的古代英雄，和他們一起與某人交談。我相信互相比較我們所受的苦難會(huì)是件痛快的事情。更重要的是，我可以像在這個(gè)世界時(shí)一樣，在那個(gè)新世界里繼續(xù)探求事物的真?zhèn)?，我可以認(rèn)清誰是真正的才智仁人，誰只是假裝聰明。法官們啊，誰不愿舍棄一切，以換取機(jī)會(huì)研究這遠(yuǎn)征特洛伊的領(lǐng)袖——奧德修斯、西昔法斯和無數(shù)其他的男男女女！他們交談，向他們請(qǐng)教，將是何等快樂的事情！在那個(gè)世界里，絕不會(huì)有人僅僅因?yàn)榘l(fā)問而被處死！如果傳說屬實(shí)，住在那里的人除了比我們快樂之外，還能得到永生。Wherefore, my judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after and his are not neglected by the gods。nor has my own approaching end happened by mere am not angry with my condemners, or with my accusers。they have done me no harm, although they did not mean to do me any good。and for this I may gently blame I have a favor to ask of my sons are grown up, I would ask you, my friends, to punish them, and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue。or if they pretend to be something when they are nothingI to die, and you to is better only God ，不必為死亡而感到喪氣，要知道善良的人無論生前死后都不會(huì)遭惡果，他和家人不會(huì)為諸神拋棄?？煲蹬R在我身上的結(jié)局非偶然發(fā)生。我清楚知道現(xiàn)在對(duì)我來說，死亡比在世更佳。我可以擺脫一切煩惱，因?yàn)槲从猩裰I顯現(xiàn)。為了同樣的理由，我不怨恨起訴者或是將我判死罪的人，他們雖對(duì)我不懷善意，卻未令我受害。不過，我可要稍稍責(zé)怪他們的不懷善意?？墒俏胰匀灰?qǐng)你們?yōu)槲易鲆患虑椤ＶT位朋友，我的幾個(gè)兒子成年后，請(qǐng)為我教導(dǎo)他們。如果他們把財(cái)富或其它事物看得比品德重，請(qǐng)像我煩勸你們那樣煩勸他們。如果他們自命不凡，那么，請(qǐng)像我譴責(zé)你們那樣譴責(zé)他們，因?yàn)樗麄兒鲆暳耸挛锏谋举|(zhì)，本屬藐小而自命不凡。你們倘能這樣做，我和我的兒子便會(huì)自你們手中得到公正。離別的時(shí)刻到了，我們得各自上路——我走向死亡，你們繼續(xù)活著。至于生與死孰優(yōu)，只有神明方知。The Three New YorksThere are roughly three New is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and , there is the New York of the muter — the city that is devoured(充滿)by locusts(蝗蟲)each day and spat out(吐出)each , there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last — the city of final destination, the city that is a is this third city that accounts for New Yorks highstrung(高度緊張的)disposition, its poetical deportment, and its dedication to the arts, and its inparable give the city its tidal(潮汐的)restlessness, natives give it solidarity(團(tuán)結(jié))and continuity, but the settlers give it it is a farmer arriving from Italy t