可惜胡適跟我一樣 都還沒去過
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在中国拥抱绿色 A tale of two mountains
Tourism in China comes in all sorts of colours, but green is not normally one of them. China may leave western visitors feeling blue, seeing red or sunk in a black rage – but few go home raving about how green the place is. | 在中国旅游会看到各种各样的色彩，但其中一般不会包含绿色。中国可能给西方旅游者留下或蓝、或红、或黑的印象，但是，很少有人在回家后会津津乐道地谈论当地有着多么浓烈的绿色。 |
Yet improbable as it may sound, one of the world’s most eco-friendly resorts recently opened near Shanghai – possibly the worst-served major city in the world, from the point of view of proximate natural beauty spots. The resort, Naked Stables – which uses loo water to power the room heaters and has walls made partly of rubbish – is working to be certified the world’s greenest resort outside the US by the US Green Building Council, under its prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design programme. | 裸心谷 |
For Rmb1,800 ($286) per night, the nature-starved masses of Shanghai can stay in a mud hut at Naked Stables, under a roof of bamboo thatch, with an unpredictable hot water supply and toilet water that is slightly brown in hue, because the resort recycles 100 per cent of its water. For entertainment, they can watch bamboo grow: the resort is surrounded by a forest whose bamboo grows up to a metre per day. Scant wonder the New York Times recently named the local area – Moganshan, a hill station for Europeans and gangsters in the 1930s – one of the world’s 45 top places to visit in 2012. | 虽然听起来令人难以置信，但是，世界最具环境友好性的度假村之一近期在上海附近开业了。在全球 各大城市中，就周边自然景点而论，上海大概排在末位。裸心谷(Naked Stables)度假村利用厕所里的水为房间取暖器供电，墙壁的部分材料为废弃物。目前，该度假村正致力于获得美国绿色建筑委员会(US Green Building Council)权威的“能源与环境设计先锋”(LEED)评估体系下的一项认证：全球（美国以外）顶尖绿色度假村。 |
After four concrete-crazed years in Shanghai, I think the resort is perfectly heavenly: hidden hot tubs on secluded hilltops; private massage huts on stilts in the forest; an outdoor jacuzzi that beckons in a snowstorm. Expat appeal is a given. | 花上1800元人民币（合286美元），渴望拥抱自然的上海市民就能在裸心谷的夯土小屋里住上 一晚，置身于竹子屋顶下，享受时断时续的热水供应，而由于该度假村对水资源进行百分百的循环利用，卫生间里的水呈淡褐色。在娱乐方面，他们可以观看竹子的 生长。该度假村地处一片林海之中，这里的竹子生长迅速，最快的一天能长一米。难怪该度假村所在的莫干山能够入选《纽约时报》(New York Times)最近出炉的2012年“全球45个最值得去的地方”榜单。在上世纪30年代，莫干山既是欧洲人的避署胜地，也是土匪的啸聚之所。 |
But will the Chinese über-wealthy – who single-handedly drive the world’s gold, diamond and bling markets these days – aspire to a night in a yurt, when it could be the Waldorf Astoria? Some of them already have had a more than passing acquaintance with pounded earth walls, from their days out in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. A mud hut tends to have the most charm for those who have never lived in one. China may not be quite ready yet for rustic. | 在上海的混凝土丛林中度过了让人发狂的四年之后，我想，裸心谷度假村会是一个天堂般的美妙所在：隐蔽于与世隔绝的山顶上的热水浴盆；森林里提供私人按摩服务的高脚屋；在风雪中发出诱人气息的户外按摩浴缸。这些肯定能吸引老外。 |
Hummer road hogs | 然而，中国的巨富们——他们如今独力推动着国际黄金、珠宝和奢侈品市场——在本来可以选择上海 外滩华尔道夫酒店(Waldorf Astoria)的情况下，会渴望在蒙古包里过夜吗？他们中有些人在文革期间下过乡，熟悉的夯土墙壁对他们而言不仅仅是过去的回忆。通常来说，土屋子对那 些从来没住过这种房子的人最有吸引力。乡村特色在中国恐怕一时半会儿还流行不起来。 |
Don’t get me wrong: the Chinese touring classes are keen on nature – so long as it comes with staircases instead of dirt paths and a souvenir shop every few hundred metres. | 雁荡山与撒野的悍马(Hummer) |
In my quest to commune with what passes for the environment in overcrowded, overworked and over-ambitious eastern China, I took my tween-aged girls recently to climb a famous Chinese mountain, Yandangshan, which has since come to be known in our household as “the mountain resort from hell”. | 别误解我的意思：中国旅游阶层热爱自然——只要山道上有台阶（不能是土路），只要每隔几百米有一间旅游纪念品商店。 |
There was nothing wrong with the hill in question. Yandangshan has all the attributes of peaks, waterfalls and caves and throws in a good helping of dangling suspension bridges over dramatic gorges, Buddhist nunneries perched halfway up sheer cliffs and temples sunk deep in underground caverns. In short, not the kind of thing one could see in the Cairngorms. | 为了实地探察人口过多、开发过度、雄心过盛的中国东部地区的环境，我最近带着十几岁的女儿们，一道去爬在中国很有名的一座山：雁荡山。在那之后，雁荡山在我家里就被称做“地狱之山”。 |
The problem was not nature, or even the humans who chose to invade it in hordes on the first day of the lunar new year – wearing the standard Chinese mountaineering uniform of stiletto heels and satin hotpants for the ladies, pink tutus and plastic swords for the little guys; and a cane and scowling visage for grandma. | 雁荡山本身没有问题。它有高峰、瀑布、山洞，险峻的峡谷上悬挂着索桥，便于游人行走，峭壁的半山腰上坐落着尼姑庵，山洞深处藏着寺庙。简单来说，它与苏格兰凯恩戈姆斯(Cairngorms)国家公园的风光完全不一样。 |
What really got to us were the cars. For a place dedicated to hiking, visitors to Yandangshan spend an inordinate amount of time engaged in an insane and peculiarly Chinese form of road racing. The bigger the car, the worse the behaviour: those in million-renminbi cars seemed to think that lane discipline was for Toyotas. Overtaking on the wrong side of the road, around a blind bend in a snowstorm: isn’t that what mountains are for? Ask the owner of the stretch Hummer hogging our hotel car park: he really knows how to rough it. | 问题既不是出在自然风光上，甚至也不是出在大年初一成群结队而来的游人身上。他们身穿中国的标准登山着装：女士们踩着细高跟鞋，身着缎料短裤，小女孩穿着粉红芭蕾舞短裙，男孩子手拿塑料剑，老奶奶拄着手杖，绷着个脸。 |
By the time we got back to Shanghai, a city scarcely renowned for traffic safety, we breathed a sigh of relief to be back where people run red lights and target pedestrians on zebra crossings – but mostly drive on the right side of the road. | 让我们觉得气恼的是那些小汽车。雁荡山是一个徒步旅行胜地，但旅游者在路途上要花掉过多的时 间，而且要经历疯狂而古怪的中国式公路竞赛，才能到达这里。那些小汽车体型越大就越疯狂，那些驾着价值百万人民币豪车的人似乎认为，行车规则是为丰田 (Toyota)那种车制定的。在大雪天里一个急转弯的地方超速逆向行驶：在山里不就应该这样吗？问问那辆在我们所住酒店停车场横冲直撞的加长悍马的车主 吧，他完全懂得怎么在公路上撒野。 |
Don’t bet on rustic | 回到上海时，我们都松了一口气。在这个并不以交通安全著称的城市，虽然人们会闯红灯，会冲着路口斑马线上的行人开车，但大多数时候都会行驶在正确的方向上。 |
Will Moganshan ever meet Yandangshan? Ask the guy with the stretch Hummer. When he parks it next to a yurt we will all know that green has finally come to Chinese tourism. But for the moment, you won’t catch me going long on rustic. | 我不看好乡村特色 |
莫干山有一天会与雁荡山一样吗？就看那位开着加长悍马的家伙了。哪天他把悍马停在一座蒙古包的边上，我们就知道，绿色在中国旅游领域终于登堂入室了。但就目前来说，我是不会看好乡村特色的。 | |
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