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【双语】慢旅行的艺术
“I have some bad news,” my British tour operator told me as I prepared to return to North Korea four months ago. “The DPRK1) is really short of basic materials. You’re going to have to take your own snacks and water. Even soap.” Then he brightened up. “The good news is that it’s still quite hard to get online there and most mobile phones don’t work. So you’ll be free for as long as you’re there!”
“我有些坏消息,”四个月前,在我准备重返朝鲜之际,安排我旅行的英国旅行社工作人员告诉我说,“朝鲜的基本物资非常匮乏,你得自备些食物和水,甚至还有香皂。”说完,他又面露喜色:“好消息是,那里上网仍然很难,而且多数手机也用不了。所以你只要在那儿待着,就不缺空闲!”
1. DPRK:朝鲜民主主义人民共和国(Democratic People’s Republic ofKorea)
It wasn’t the first time of late I’ve encountered such wisdom. In Namibia a year earlier, I realised that one of the sovereign2) blessings of the place is that, in nine days and nights, I had barely gone online and had made and received exactly one phone call (to my wife, to remind her when I would be coming home). And, of course, in the presence of desert-adapted rhinos3) and sand dunes the height of skyscrapers, I had never begun to miss the tiny screen.
这不是我近来第一次见识这样的智慧了。一年前在纳米比亚我就意识到,身在那个地方一个最大的好处是,在九天九夜的时间里,我几乎没上过网,而且只接打过一个电话(是打给我妻子的,为了提醒她我回家的时间)。当然,那里有适应沙漠环境的犀牛和高度堪比摩天大楼的沙丘可赏,我一点也没有想念手机那块小小的屏幕。
2. sovereign[ˈsɒvrɪn] adj. 最重大的;极好的
3. rhino [ˈraɪnəʊ] n. [动]犀牛
More and more people are spending hundreds of pounds a night to stay in “black-hole resorts4),” one of whose main attractions is that you hand over your smartphone and tablet on arrival. In a world where the human race accumulates more information every five minutes than exists in the entire US Library of Congress, emptiness and silence are the new luxuries.
越来越多的人一个晚上花几百英镑在“黑洞度假区”度假。这类度假区的一大主要吸引力在于,客人一到就必须交出智能手机和平板电脑。在这个人类每五分钟积累的信息量要比整个美国国会图书馆馆藏还多的世界里,空闲和清静成了新的奢侈品。
4. black-holeresort:黑洞度假区,指没有手机和网络接收信号,不配电视,甚至连闹钟都不鼓励使用的度假旅游区,目的在于使人们全身心投入假期,过一段“与世隔绝”的悠闲时光。
Welcome, in short, to “slow travel,” which comes to seem ever more tempting in an age of acceleration. This can take the form of simply unplugging; but it also speaks for the special, everyday allure of seeing somewhere on foot, of going to one place (and not 10) in 14 days, and sometimes of going somewhere to do nothing at all. This used to be known as idling, but in a multi-tasking world, in which we seem to be living at a pace dictated by machines, going at human speed suddenly begins to look like sanity and freedom.
简言之,欢迎加入“慢旅行”。在这个加速运转的时代,慢旅行似乎正变得越发具有吸引力。慢旅行的形式可以是简单的断网关机,但也可以是日常生活里一些别致的吸引人的活动,比如走路去看风景,花两周游一个(而非十个)地方,有时还包括到一个地方无所事事地待着。这一度被视为是游手好闲之举,但在这个一心多用的世界中,我们生活的步伐似乎全被机器操控,保持常人的节奏忽然开始显得明智而自由。
I experienced my own first taste of slow travel 23 years ago, when I checked into a monastery5), of all places—even though years of enforced chapel6) at school had left me all but allergic to church services. It didn’t matter. The chance to take walks, to forget about phone calls, to sit and just catch my breath, so invigorated7) me that when I moved to Japan, I took a two-room flat that had something of the quiet of a retreat house.
我第一次切身体验慢旅行是在23年前,当时我从众多地方里选择了一座修道院栖身—尽管读书时多年的强制性教堂礼拜已让我对那套东西几乎心生厌恶。这没关系。那次经历让我有机会悠然漫步,忘掉电话,静坐,调整呼吸。我感到精神无比焕发,以至于后来旅居日本,我挑了一如休养所般幽静的两居室公寓安家。
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