可爱的加拿大姑娘超激动中国游：第二天：历史冰冷的脚趾_BEC初级作文

可爱的加拿大姑娘超激动中国游：第二天：历史冰冷的脚趾

今天是一个“等等，还有更多精彩”的日子，因为我们每去一个地方，它都是旅游攻略上的另一站，并且它们全部都很棒。午饭过后，我们步行去天坛公园，欣赏了壮丽的天坛。友情提示，这里所有的一切实物都比图片要大得多。尤其是在这种阳光灿烂的日子，它看起来真的非常雄伟壮丽，这种静谧肃穆的环境让人几乎忘记北京城的喧嚣吵闹与自己只有一墙之隔。

An hour commute (which in Beijing commuter minutes is a really short drive) brought us to the Summer Palace. I had always thought this was outside of Beijing, as when they say in the guidebook it’s more than an hour from the city centre, you assume it’s out in the burbs. But as I was coming to learn, Beijing is so expansive that to get to the burbs you have to practically get to Korea.

一小时车程之后（在北京一小时车程真的是非常短的距离），我们到达了颐和园。我一直以为颐和园在北京城外，因为看到旅游指南书上说颐和园距离北京市中心有一小时车程，你肯定会理所当然地认为颐和园坐落在郊区。但当我真正来到这里的时候，我发现真相只有一个，那就是北京的规模大到超乎想象，如果他们对你说一起去郊区吧，你完全可以设想自己要去韩国了。

Instead of spreading up, like so many major metropolises, it spread out, and as far as the eye can see from the highest point you can get to, it’s still central Beijing. Back to that “everything’s bigger in China” thing. It’s hard to wrap my brain around just how giant this place is, and how many people are here, but I’m trying.