英語(yǔ)閱讀：AccountofMyTravels游歷記述

1、英語(yǔ)閱讀： Account of My Travels游歷記述I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the em

2、olument of the towncrier. As I grew into boyhood, I extended the range of my observations. My holiday afternoons were spent in rambles about the surrounding country. I made myself familiar with all its places famous in history or fable. I knew every spot where a murder or robbery had been committed,

3、 or a ghost seen.I visited the neighboring villages, and added greatly to my stock of knowledge, by noting their habits and customs, and conversing with their sages and great men. I even journeyed one long summer's day to the summit of the most distant hill, whence I stretched my eye over many a

4、 mile of terra （ 'ter n. 土, 土地）incognita, and was astonished to find how vast a globe I inhabited.This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully w

5、ould I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound to distant climes- with what longing eyes would I gaze after their lesse ning sails, and waft（w a: ：t, wftvi. 飄送）myself i nimagination to the ends of the earth!Further reading and thinking, though they brought thi

6、s vague （ veiga. 含糊的） inclination into more reasonable bounds, only served to make it more decided. I visited various partsof my own country; and had I been merely a lover of fine scenery, I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification, for on no country have the charms of natu

7、re been more prodigally （ 'prdigli adv. 浪費(fèi)地 , 豐饒地） lavished. Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with their bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming （ 'ti ：mi adj. 充滿的, 熱鬧的, 豐富的） with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her bou

8、ndless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure （v ：dn. 翠綠） ; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine;- no, never need an American

9、look beyond his own country for the sublime（sblaima. 壯麗的；高尚的 n. 高尚，崇高）and beautiful of natural seenery.游歷記述 我向來(lái)鐘愛(ài)訪歷新境，采風(fēng)問(wèn)俗。自幼我就開(kāi)始旅行，多次探查我所 成長(zhǎng)的城市的偏僻之處、陌生之所。這讓我父母飽受虛驚，當(dāng)然也讓 那些街頭報(bào)訊員獲益頗豐。隨著我逐步成長(zhǎng)到少年，我探查的范圍也 擴(kuò)大了。無(wú)數(shù)個(gè)假日的午后，我都消磨在鄰近鄉(xiāng)村的漫游中。不管哪 個(gè)歷史名勝還是哪個(gè)神話圣地，我都悉數(shù)知曉；不管哪個(gè)殺 人越貨之 所還是哪個(gè)鬼魂出沒(méi)之地，我皆如數(shù)家珍。訪察鄰村時(shí)，我觀察村民 們的風(fēng)俗習(xí)

10、慣，并和其中的學(xué)者名士相談，這些都大大增加了我的知 識(shí)儲(chǔ)備。有一個(gè)漫長(zhǎng)的夏日，我竟游歷到了一座很遠(yuǎn)的小山頭?？v目 遠(yuǎn)眺，方圓數(shù)英里的無(wú)名大地盡收眼底，我驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)，原來(lái)我所居 住的星球是如此的廣袤。隨著我逐步地長(zhǎng)大，這種漫游癖好也與日俱增。我將激情皆付諸游記和旅行日記。因?yàn)槿琊囁瓶实亻喿x這些書(shū)，我竟荒廢了學(xué)校的常規(guī)課 業(yè)。天氣好的時(shí)候，我會(huì)無(wú)限惆悵地徘徊在碼頭岬角，目送遠(yuǎn)帆沒(méi)入 天際，用渴望的眼神追逐那逐步消逝的白帆，放自己的想象隨之到天 涯地角。書(shū)讀得多了，思考也隨之深刻了。雖然這將我那種模糊的漫游嗜好拘 于理性，卻也使它更為明確和堅(jiān)定。我訪遍祖國(guó)的各個(gè)地方；我要是 鐘愛(ài)美景，那就絕不屑于到其他地方去搜尋，因?yàn)闆](méi)有哪個(gè)國(guó)家擁有 我的祖國(guó)這