《瘋狂英語》精選輯:快樂暑假逍遙游

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Happy Summer Vacation

1st Stop: Burj Al Arab Hotel

Spend a night at the world's fanciest five-star hotel. Get treated like royalty, served, spoiled and 1)pampered till your heart's content! One spectacular suggestion, the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. A 2)limousine picks you at the airport and 3)whisks you off to your private paradise. Once inside the colorful hotel, you'll be 4)escorted to your guest suite, which comes with your own private 5)butler. The room is 6)crafted from the finest materials from around the world and 7)decked out with every imaginable luxury, from video on demand to a steamy Roman spa. The price for all this 8)indulgence: $10,000 a night, but that includes the butler!

2nd Stop: Northern Lights

See the Northern Lights, also known as "God's Light Show. "This magical 9)iridescent phenomenon has 10)entranced people for centuries both for its beauty and mystery. While you can sometimes catch sight of them in the northern United States, the farther north you go the more vivid they glow, the North Pole being best.

3rd Stop: Great Museums

Plan a great museum vacation, great art museums in the great cities of the world. Start with the Louvre in Paris: after walking through the I.M. Pei pyramid entrance, visitors encounter one of the greatest art collections in the world, including treasures like the 11)Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa. Next, travel to Washington, D.C. and the world's biggest museum, the 12)renowned Smithsonian. There are a total of 16 different museums within the Smithsonian, from the Air and Space Museum to the Museum of American Art, which houses great works of art by the likes of 13)Georgia O'Keefe and 14)Andrew Wyeth.

4th Stop: The Tanzanian Plain

Visit Africa's Serengeti Plain in northeast Tanzania, near Kenya. This 15)sprawl of wilderness is home to world's largest concentration of zebras, 16)hippos and giraffes. If you're lucky, you might witness the incredible 17)spectacle of a mass 18)wildebeest migration or catch a glimpse of the plains?19)dwindling elephant and 20)rhino populations, which have sadly been 21)decimated by 22)poachers. This may be your last and best chance to see these spectacular creatures outside a zoo. So go -- now!

5th Stop: The Ganges & The Nile

I mmerse yourself in the great rivers of the world. First the Ganges, the sacred river of India. The Ganges is 1,560 miles long. Indian people use its waters to drink, to irrigate their fields and to bathe. These waters have a value to them that is both physical and 23)metaphysical: here they can 24)cleanse their skin and their souls. Next the Nile, the longest river in the world. At 4,187 miles, the waters of the Nile have nourished Egypt for thousands of years. Wherever you 25)plunge your hand in to the waters of the Nile, you'll be 26)reenacting a 27)ritual that goes back to the very dawn of civilization.

6th Stop: Star Screen Test

Getting the most out of life may or may not include getting your 28)proverbial 15 minutes of fame, but our next pick will get you one step closer. Take a screen test and become a star. For every actor who becomes a star, tens of thousands don't make it and yet it's still a classic fantasy. So, what the heck! Give it a try! It's a tough, risky, possibly humiliating grab at the big brass ring of money, fame and fortune.

7th Stop: Fly!

Fly! Not in a plane, 29)chopper or some other 30)contraption, just you and several thousand feet of open air! Jump out of a plane, and for once in your life find out what it feels like to soar! Free, 31)unfettered, 32)tumbling in a 33)rapture of weightless wonder at speeds of a 115 to 130 miles an hour suspended between heaven and earth, it's a moment of 34)sheer 35)bliss that's only slightly 36)hindered as you 37)deploy your 38)parachute, which is why you should do it.

And finally the first thing you should do on your life's journey, make up your own list and live your own dream. At the end of the day, you alone can decide what the well-lived life is for you. Don't be afraid to dream the biggest dreams and after you've made your own list just turn those wishes into gold by giving them a deadline and remember, it's not too late if you start right now!

注釋:
1) pamper v. 溺愛，縱容 2) limousine n. 豪華轎車
3) whisk v. 急送 4) escort v. 護送
5) butler n. 男管家 6) craft v. 精制
7) deck v. 裝飾 8) indulgence n. 放任，沉迷
9) iridescent a. 虹彩的 10) entrance v. 使著迷；使狂喜
11) Venus de Milo 米洛的維納斯（著名古希臘大理石雕塑，作于公元前2世紀，公元1800年在希臘的米洛島被發(fā)現(xiàn)）
12) renowned a. 著名的 13) Georgia O'Keefe 喬治亞·奧基夫，美國著名女畫家
14) Andrew Wyeth 安德魯·懷斯，美國著名畫家 15) sprawl n. 蔓延
16) hippo n. 河馬 17) spectacle n. 奇觀，壯觀
18) wildebeest n. （荷蘭語）野獸 19) dwindle v. 減少
20) rhino n. 犀牛 21) decimate v. 大批殺死或毀滅
22) poacher n. 偷獵者 23) metaphysical a. 超自然的
24) cleanse v. 清潔；使純潔 25) plunge v. 使投入
26) reenact v. 再扮演 27) ritual n. 儀式
28) proverbial a. 出名的 29) chopper n. 直升飛機
30) contraption n. 新設(shè)計，新發(fā)明 31) unfettered a. 自由的，無拘無束的
32) tumble v. 翻筋斗 33) rapture n. 狂喜
34) sheer a. 純粹的 35) bliss n. 福佑
36) hinder v. 阻礙 37) deploy v. 展開
38) parachute n. 降落傘

快樂暑假逍遙游

第一站阿拉伯塔酒店

到世界上最豪華的五星級酒店住上一晚，領(lǐng)略皇族般的禮遇，享受貼心的服務(wù)，接受別人無微不至的安排，甚至是予求予取的對待！不妨考慮一下迪拜的阿拉伯塔酒店吧，在機場就有豪華轎車快速把你送到這私家天堂。一進入這富麗堂皇的酒店，你就會被護送至自己的套房，那里還為你配有私人男管家。套房選用的是全球一流的材質(zhì)，同時從應(yīng)有盡有的視頻點播，到熱氣騰騰的羅馬水療浴池，豪華設(shè)施一應(yīng)俱全。頂級享受所需花費: 每晚房價一萬美元，不過這已包含了男管家的費用。

第二站極光

欣賞一下北極光，也稱作“神光秀”。這迷人的奇觀，正因為它美麗而神秘，令世人神往了幾個世紀。雖然有時你能在美國的北部看到它們，但越往北走，其光芒越燦爛，尤以北極最佳。

第三站博物館

籌劃一個參觀大型博物館的假期吧，去看看世界各大城市的大型藝術(shù)博物館。就從巴黎的盧浮宮開始吧，走過貝聿銘先生設(shè)計的金字塔大門，游客可欣賞到全球最優(yōu)秀的藝術(shù)品，如米洛的維納斯和蒙娜麗莎一類的珍品。接下來到華盛頓特區(qū)去看看全球最龐大的博物館——極負盛名的史密森尼博物館。從航空航天館到美國藝術(shù)館，史密森尼總共有16間不同的分館，館內(nèi)收藏著像喬治亞·奧基夫和安德魯·懷斯等名家的藝術(shù)極品。

第四站坦桑尼亞平原

到坦桑尼亞東北部、靠近肯尼亞的塞倫蓋蒂平原觀光。這片遼闊的荒野是斑馬、河馬和長頸鹿在全球最大的聚居地。幸運的話，你還能目睹野生動物大批遷徙的壯觀景象，欣賞原野上由于被偷獵者大量捕殺而日漸減少的大象群、犀牛群。這可能是你在動物園之外欣賞它們的最佳、也是最后時機了，趕快動身吧。

第五站恒河與尼羅河

將自己浸泡在最偉大的河流之中。首先是印度的圣河--恒河。恒河有1560英里長，印度人用河中的水解渴、灌溉和沐浴。河水對他們的身體和精神來說都具有特殊的意義，他們可以在這里凈化自己的身體和心靈。接下來是尼羅河。尼羅河是世界上最長的河流，全長4187英里，河水滋養(yǎng)了埃及數(shù)千年。無論你將手放入河中的哪個地方，都是將文明之初的一種儀式的重演。

第六站明星試鏡

你人生中追求的最重要的東西，可能包括（當然，也可能不包括）一夜成名。不管怎么說，我們下面的推薦可以讓你更接近這個目標--去參加試鏡成為明星。雖然在數(shù)以萬計的演員中，就只有那么一位可以成為閃亮的明星，但這仍然是很多人心中的夢想。怕什么，去試試嘛！盡管那需要冒極大的風(fēng)險，有時甚至還顏面盡失，但也可能為你帶來名利雙收。

第七站飛翔

去飛行，但不要借助飛機、直升機或者其它什么新發(fā)明的飛行器，只有你和數(shù)千英尺的大氣。只要跳出機艙，就能有生以來頭一回感受到飛翔的那種自由、解放的滋味。以每小時115至130英里的速度，以無重的狀態(tài)，在天空和大地之間翻騰，這一刻真是樂翻天。直到打開降落傘，這種極致快感才告一段落。所以你一定要試！

最后，你此生要做的第一件事就是:寫下你的計劃，擁有自己的夢想。最后你就能獨自判斷哪種生活最適合你了。不用害怕編織最絢麗的夢想，自己的計劃一旦做好了，就定下一個美夢成真的期限，記?。含F(xiàn)在開始也不算太遲。