2014年考研英语新概念必背作文精选大逃亡_大学英语写作

2014年考研英语新概念必背作文精选大逃亡

　　To such motives, yet another must be added. The contemporaryphenomenon of car worship is to be explained not least by the sense ofindependence and freedom that ownership entails. To this pleasure camping givesan exquisite refinement.

　　From ones own front door to home or foreign hills or sands and backagain, everything is to hand. Not only are the means of arriving at the holidayparadise entirely within ones own command and keeping, but the means of escapefrom holiday hell are there, outside----or, as likely, part of----the tent.

　　Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to thepackage tour, that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunityof getting to know the people of the country visited. Insularity andself-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand. The opinion does not surviveexperience of a popular Continental camping place. Holiday hotels tend to caterfor one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively. Campingsites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan. Granted, a preponderance ofGermans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; butas yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage. Notices forbidding theopen-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing, orthose inviting our camping friends to a dance or a boat trip are printed not only in French or Italianor Spanish, but also in English, German and Dutch. At meal times the odour ofsauerkraut vies with that of garlic. The Frenchmans breakfast coffee competeswith the Englishmans bacon and eggs.