徐霞客一生周游考察了16个省.doc

徐霞客一生周游考察了16个省,足迹几乎遍及全国.他在考察的过程中,从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。他发现前人研究地理的记载有许多不很可靠的地方。为了进行真实细致的考察,他很少乘车坐船,几乎全靠双脚翻山越岭,长途跋涉;为了弄清大自然的真相,他总是挑选道路艰险的山区,人烟稀少的森林进行考察,发现了许多奇山秀景;他常常选择不同的时间和季节,多次重游各地名山,反复观察变幻的奇景。In his lifetime Xu Xiake traveled sixteen provinces, almost all over China, for exploration. Never blindly following the conclusions in books during his exploration, he was able to discover many a place that had been quite unreliably recorded by the forerunners in their geographical studies. For a truthful and detailed investigation, he rarely traveled by road or by water. Instead, he trekked over mountain after mountain. In order to verify the truth of nature, he always chose such mountain areas with difficult and dangerous paths and sparsely populated forests to travel and explore that he discovered many wonderful mountains and beautiful scenery. He used to select different times and seasons to revisit the famous mountains in various parts of China so as to make repeated observations of the shifting breathtaking scenes.The thirty-second day out of Bombay began inauspiciously. In the morning a sea smashed one of the galley doors. We dashed in through lots of steam and found the cook very wet and indignant with the ship:”Shes getting worse every day. Shes trying to drown me in front of my own stove!” He was very angry. We pacified him, and the carpenter, though washed away twice from there, manage to repair the door. Through that accident our dinner was not ready till late, but it didnt matter in the end because Knowles, who went to fetch it, got knocked down by a sea and the dinner went over the side. The ships captain, looking more hard and thin-lipped than ever, would not notice that the ship, asked to do too much, appeared to lose heart altogether for the first time since we knew her.战舰驶离孟买城已是第32天了,冥冥之中斯和有一丝不祥之兆.早上,一股海浪冲坏了一扇舱门.我们冒着大片的雾水冲进舰舱后发现身上已大片湿透了的厨师正在愤愤抱怨说:这船一天比一天差,想要把我淹死在这炉子跟前!”见他火气很大,我们安慰了他几句.那个木匠,被水浪冲开两次以后,还是艰难地把舱门修好了.由于这次意外,我们开饭很迟,不过最终这已无关紧