口語式短文：現代徐霞客

Modern-day Xu Xiake：

•  My paternal elder cousin Guang-yu just returned from Europe this past Monday. He and my uncle (i.e., his father) had backpacked Europe for nineteen days.

• 我的堂哥光宇這個星期一剛從歐洲回來，他和我大伯 ( 也就是他爸爸 ) 到歐洲自助旅行了 19 天。

•  Since my uncle works at an airline company, they went to Europe by taking advantage of the free tickets for employees and their families.

• 因為大伯在航空公司工作，所以他們兩人是利用員工及眷屬免費機票去歐洲的。

•  They entered Europe through Frankfurt. Using trains, river boats and buses, they had visited ten several German cities. At night they stayed at cheap youth hostels. Sometimes they also took the overnight sleeping trains.

• 他們從法蘭克福入境，利用火車、河輪、巴士等交通工具走訪了十幾個德國城市，晚上住在便宜的青年旅館，有時也搭臥鋪夜車。

•  In addition to Germany, they had also been to Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia in this trip. At the end they took the airplane from Vienna back to Taiwan.

• 除了德國，他們這次旅行也去了奧地利、捷克、匈牙利及斯洛伐克，最後從維也納搭機回台灣。

•  Guang-yu and my uncle had also backpacked Japan for ten several days in the past winter vacation of this year. Although I have been to Japan several times, too, the scope of my journeys was not comparable to that of theirs.

• 堂哥和大伯在今年寒假時也去日本自助旅行了十幾天，雖然我也去過日本好幾次，但在範圍上沒辦法和他們去到的地方相比。

•  Dad tells me that Guang-yu and my uncle were very frugal during their backpacking trips but didn't sacrifice the things they really wanted to see. Besides, since they stayed at youth hostels, they've made many foreign friends.

• 聽爸爸說，堂哥他們自助旅行時非常節省，但絕不會犧牲想看的景點。而且因為住在青年旅館，還認識很多外國朋友。

•  Dad says that there was a man named Xu Xiake in the Ming Dynasty. He had used thirty years to walk and travel around everywhere in China. His footprints were left in many famous mountains, big rivers, great cities, and small towns.

• 爸爸說明朝時有一個人叫做徐霞客，他利用三十年的時間走遍中國各地，許多名山大川、大城小鎮都有他的足跡。

•  Dad commends that light-luggaged but far-reaching backpackers like Guang-yu and my uncle are typical modern-day Xu Xiakes.

• 爸爸稱讚說像堂哥和大伯這種行囊簡便但足跡廣闊的背包客，就是現代徐霞客的典型。

•  Guang-yu is now a college student. Dad wishes me to be a modern-day Xu Xiake like Guang-yu when I grow up.

• 堂哥現在是大學生，爸爸希望我長大後也能像堂哥一樣，做個現代徐霞客。

發表時間：2009/09/04 著作人：周國華老師