YOYO说旅行 | 驰骋大东欧第四集（上）

7位名师大拿将陆续开启他们的专栏故事

名师专栏第一发，我们请到了老朋友YOYO，继续说说东欧的旅行见闻。

这一集，我们来到了位于巴尔干半岛东北部的罗马尼亚。那里地形奇特多样，平原、山地、丘陵各占三分之一；那里山河秀丽，蓝色的多瑙河、雄奇的喀尔巴阡山和绚丽多姿的黑海是三大国宝，有“罗马尼亚脊梁”之称的喀尔巴阡山绵亘在40%的国土上。

看了那么多YOYO的文章，想必你已略知YOYO的文风，但你了解YOYO其人吗？现在，请YOYO来个“迟到”的自我介绍吧！

我是YOYO，翻译学科班出身，热爱中英语言与文化；多年留学经历，习惯在行走中思考，在思考中行走；英语教学专业背景，执教5年有余，熟谙主流与创新授课模式；我爱阅读，也爱旅游，来到这里，只为与你们分享我的快乐。

Romania

Romania's Maramures region may be modernising in places but take a walk in the countryside among forests, wooden churches and hay stooks and you'll feel like you've stepped back in time

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Driving over the Gutai Pass into northern Romania's Mara valley the signs were good: a summit mysterious with cloud, an old woman selling honey by the road, and as we dropped out of the forest and back into sunlight, long panoramas of rolling countryside dotted with hay stooks leading off into the purple ridges of the Carpathians. People say that if you want old Europe, a place steeped in the rhythms of nature and skills lost elsewhere, then Romania's Maramures region is for you. Guidebooks talk of medieval isolation and ways of life unchanged since the third century AD. And then there was William Blacker's sublime 2009 book The Enchanted Way which cast a deeply romantic glow over the entire place. No wonder we were fired up with great expectations.

So when we began to see the villages, there was some consternation. Yes, there were a lot of traditional wooden houses with great square ornamental gateways and barns where homemade haymaking tools were leaning. But there were other buildings too: block-built houses with ugly balconies and UPVC windows. These did not fit. Nor did the old man in a Chelsea football shirt. Expectations are vital in the travel trade and ours were not being met, not yet at least.

YOYO说词

hay stooks 干草垛
rolling countryside 绵延起伏的乡村

dotted with 点缀着
leading off into 延伸至；一路通向

medieval isolation 中世纪的与世隔绝
sublime 令人赞叹的

cast a deeply romantic glow over 使… …闪耀着罗马尼亚的光辉

fired up with 激起（狂热的情绪）
consternation 不安

YOYO说句
1. Driving over the Gutai Pass into northern Romania's Mara valley the signs were good: a summit mysterious with cloud, an old woman selling honey by the road, and as we dropped out of the forest and back into sunlight, long panoramas of rolling countryside dotted with hay stooks leading off into the purple ridges of the Carpathians.

描述一段旅程时，我们往往会更关注路线和景点，对沿途风景却很少涉及。其实“在路上”同样可以为我们的表达增色不少。

这段话就是一个很好的例子：云雾缭绕山峰，路旁兜售土蜂蜜的老妪，遮天蔽日的密林，密林外灿烂的阳光，绵延起伏的乡村，村庄里的草垛，村庄尽头依稀可见的山脉……这一切在作者笔下都如同梵高的油画，明丽而层次分明地映入脑海。

即便我们无法说到如此完美——事实上我们根本毋须这样做——至少可以借鉴这些风景中某几个元素。

2. People say that if you want old Europe, a place steeped in the rhythms of nature and skills lost elsewhere, then Romania's Maramures region is for you.

If从句是十分基础语法结构，也容易上口，不过在考场上大家似乎不大清楚什么时候可以用到它。

其实当咱们想表达“某地有某物”时，可以换一种思维方式和表达方式，反过来，说成是“如果你想要某物，那么你可以去某地”。这样一来，不但使简单句秒变复杂（这是加分项），还能通过"you"在一定程度上实现与考官的交流。

3. No wonder we were fired up with great expectations.

No wonder——中学英语大家再复习一下，而后赶快在考场上用起来。比如，TV话题，“每天看那么长时间电视，难怪没时间锻炼身体 watching TV has taken up most of their time; no wonder they've little time doing any exercise”；

SNACKS 话题“孩子吃了那么多巧克力，难怪现在吃不下 The kid has had too many chocolates. No wonder he doesn't feel like eating now.”等。

4. Yes, there were a lot of traditional wooden houses with great square ornamental gateways and barns where homemade haymaking tools were leaning. But there were other buildings too: block-built houses with ugly balconies and UPVC windows. These did not fit. Nor did the old man in a Chelsea football shirt.

相信大家曾经看到过这样的景象：好端端一个小村庄：农田、茅屋、沟渠、木桥……质朴的美，却不知为什么被添加修建了很多违和的人工“景观”，比如所谓“巴洛克”式的凉亭，甚至伪“x宫”。

这种怪现象也属于某些城镇的“变化”，因此，可以用在“changes of a certain place in recent years”，或是 tourism 可能带来的负面影响等话题的回答中。那么具体怎么组织语言呢？

研究一下这段话，我们不难发现，作者吐槽的关键包括三点。第一，并举美景与不和谐因素，以 but 联结，实现鲜明对比；第二，在字里行间力求凸显美景的质朴(traditional, great, ornamental, homemade)，以及不和谐因素的 low 到近乎廉价的品味(block-built, ugly, UPVC)，增强画面感；

最后一点，明确问题所在，"These did not fit"，言简意赅却一针见血。如果大家在吐槽今不如昔的时候也能做到这三点，考官应该没什么可挑剔了。
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