I was in Dubai late last year to report a few stories for The New York Times but, as I teed off onthe Faldo Course at the Emirates Golf Club shortly before 8 one night, it did not escape methat I was beginning my round at roughly the same time as my children would be going to sleepback home. It was a liberating feeling and, also, wholly unfamiliar; after all, so many roundsplayed by so many golfers around the world involve a mental countdown clock, a harriedfeeling of needing to hustle so as to be done in time for a soccer practice/baseball game/dancerecital/trip to Home Depot.
去年下半年,我在迪拜为《纽约时报》做几篇报道,有天晚上快到8点钟的时候,我在阿联酋高尔夫俱乐部的福尔多球场上挥起了球杆,但我忽然想到,开始打这场高尔夫的时间,也正是我的孩子们要回家睡觉的时间。我立刻有了一种自由自在的感觉,不过也是一种非常陌生的感觉,毕竟,世界各地的许多高尔夫玩家在打高尔夫球时,心里都在倒计时,总觉得要动作快一点,匆匆忙忙地把球打完,以便能赶上一次足球训练,或一场棒球比赛,或一次舞蹈表演,又或一次去家得宝(Home Depot)的购物。
This was different. At night, the pace of play is quick but the emotions are gloriously slower anddreamier. Like everything else in Dubai, there is construction all around the course at Emirates,but the whirring of the cranes and the backfiring of the ubiquitous trucks quiet to a hum afterdark and the skyline that rises above the course, topped, of course, by the spindly BurjKhalifa, makes golfers feel as if they are tiptoeing (or, really, gliding in electric carts) among acadre of neon giants.
【为什么要去迪拜打夜场高尔夫】相关文章:
★ 伊索寓言7
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15