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not because he cannot afford, or shuns, their meterial comforts, but because he is afraid of them.

這并不是因為他們付不起錢，也不是為了躲避物質享受，而是因為他們害怕酒店。

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Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure what, to tip the doorman or the chambermaid.

他們可能很富有，但給看門人和房間女服務員多少小費，心中卻根本沒有數；

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Master in his own house, he has little idea of when to say boo to a maitre d'hotel.

他們在家可能是主人，但不知道什么時候才能對酒店的經理表示不滿。

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From all such fears camping releases him.

露營使人們免除了這些憂慮。

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Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists,

誠然，露營地本身也存在以露營裝備和方式取人的勢利現象，

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but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with.

但如果有這種情況，露營者也容易理解，知道如何對付，

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There is no superior 'they' in the shape of managements and hotel hierarchies to darken his holiday days.

但在露營地里根本不會有管人的人上人"和酒店里的等級制度來使露營者的假日過得陰郁低沉。

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To such motives, yet another must be added.

除了以上動機外，還應再加上一個。

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The contemporary phenomenon of motor-car worship is to be explained not least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails.

當前崇拜汽車現象可以用與所有權相伴的獨立和自由意識來解釋。

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To this pleasure camping gives an exquisite refinement.

因此開車去露營會給這種快樂意識增加一種優雅意境。

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From one's own front door to home or foreign hills or sands and back again, everything is to hand.

從自己的家門出發到國內國外的山區或沙灘上露營然后返回，一切都很便利。

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Not only are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise entirely within one's own command and keeping,

完全在自己掌握之中的私人汽車不僅是到達假日天堂的工具，

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but the means of escape from holiday hell(if the beach proves too crowded, the local weather too inclement)

而且也是逃離假日地獄（如海灘太擠，當地天氣惡劣）的方便工具，

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are there, outside--or, as likely, part of--the tent.

因為汽車就停在帳篷外面，或者汽車本身可能就是露營帳篷的一個組成部分。

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Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the packaged tour,

理想主義者像反對旅行社安排一切的一攬子旅游一樣反對露營的作法，

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that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited.

說這種封閉的作法使到國外旅游者失去了了解所去國家人民的機會。

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Insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand.

他們爭論說，心胸狹窄和自我封閉是并存的。

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The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place.

但這種說法在受人歡迎的歐洲露營場地是站不住腳的。

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Holiday hotels tend to cater for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively.

假日旅館有只接待來自一個國家的旅游者的傾向，有時會達到排他的程度。

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Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan.

而露營駐地則相反，是高度世界性的。

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Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites;

在大多數地中海露營地里，德國人占優勢似乎是個普遍現象，

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but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage.

確實如此，但并沒有特別的優待。

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Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing,

禁止露天曬衣服、禁止用水龍頭沖洗汽車的布告

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or those inviting 'our camping friends' to a dance or a boat trip are printed not only in French or Italian or Spanish,

和邀請露營朋友參加舞會、乘船觀光的招貼不僅印成法語、意大利語、西班牙語，

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but also in English, German and Dutch.

而且也印成英語、德語、荷蘭語。

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At meal times the odour of sauerkraut vies with that of garlic.

用飯的時候，德國泡菜味和大蒜味爭相散發，

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The Frenchman's breakfast coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.

法國人的早點咖啡和英國人的咸肉煎蛋競相比美。

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Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.

有組織的露營活動的明顯發展是否意味著較獨立的自我封閉式露營的最終消失，還很難說。

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Municipalities naturally want to secure the campers' site fees and other custom.

市政當局當然希望獲得露營者的場地費和其他光臨的好處，

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Police are wary of itinerants who cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls.

警察則對那些查不出有固定營地或住處的游蕩者保持警惕。