外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： I asked if he was worried about the water, it was so low.

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： “You can have anything you want in the city,” Lao Huang said. But, he noted, “You have what you need in the mountains.” Then he laughed. He had a way of talking about things in short, profound sentences capped with raucous laughter.

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： The one thing delivered to them was water. Lao Huang had installed plumbing — a hose running nearly a third of a mile up a cliff to a pristine, spring-fed pool.

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Like his wife, Lao Huang looked many years younger than his age, which he said was “still not yet 50.” I asked him how he had managed to find himself in such a beautiful place, and half-jokingly he explained that no one else wanted to have to ca

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： After we sat down to eat at a low table set on the family kang (a stone platform built over the wood-burning stove that would also serve as our bed), Lao Huang returned from picking up supplies on the other side of the mountain.

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： “You must be thirsty,” she said. Soon she was pouring tea brewed from leaves she had picked from the bushes all around the house. We gulped it down, and then helped her catch one of the chickens roaming in the yard for our dinner.

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Lao Huang’s house was a low-slung shelter of stone surrounded by gardens and tea fields that extended deep into the gentle slope of a U-shaped valley. Lao Huang was not there, but his wife, He Fenghong, appeared from behind a bundle of firewood,

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Around another bend there was a boulder boldly inscribed with the Chinese character “cha” — tea, which signaled we had found a place to stay for the night. In the mountains, some families open their homes as nongjiale, informal guesthouses where

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： THE SUN WAS SETTING behind Laoshan’s foothills when we rounded a bend in the trail, and there the dusty soil turned into packed mud. The mud ringed a copper-green pool about as wide and as deep as a swimming pool, the “Prinzenbad” — Prince’s Bat

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： I knew that a fear of wells is a common Chinese superstition, instilled by cautious grandmothers and history books detailing concubines’ bad ends. But as I peered skeptically into the mouth of the well, a cool gust rose from its depths and disti

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： There is still one original well left, a small hole ringed in hexagonal stone behind the brewery’s busy loading docks; it is no longer used and not part of the official tour. A guide tried to warn me away. “Be careful of the ghosts,” she said, a

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： The city’s best-known product, its namesake Tsingtao beer, still touts its mountain roots. In 1903, the German-British backed Nordic Brewery Company brewed its first lagers using a recipe of Moravian malt, Bohemian and Bavarian hops, and spring

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： I had spent the days before my hike wandering in the city of Qingdao, which is so close to Laoshan that on a clear morning, Laoshan’s peaks appear like a golden mirage, wavering in the distance. To most in the city, Laoshan is no longer a physic

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： The mountain regularly appeared as a backdrop in stories and songs about unexplained happenings. In the 17th century, the author known in writing circles as the Last of the Immortals, Pu Songling, lived on the Taiqing Palace’s grounds and wrote

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： By the Qin dynasty and for centuries after that, emperors made pilgrimages here, hoping to meet the beings who controlled the wind and the rain and bore such gifts.

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： There is a story here of a time when the mountain had no water, and the villagers were starving. A kind spirit gave a peasant a magical vessel that multiplied whatever was put into it, and the villagers were saved. When greedy officials came to

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： This otherworldly beauty was not lost on the Taoists, who some 3,000 years ago deemed the mountain a home of the Immortals, elevated beings so removed from worldly concerns that their skin is unlined by worry. Though most of the temples here hav

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： The Laoshan Scenic District is an easy drive along the coast from the city of Qingdao, 19 miles or so to the west. About two million visitors come each year to ascend Laoshan’s peaks, which are strewed with oddly shaped moraines resembling stack

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Along the path, lilies bloomed like orange flares, and hikers before us had marked the way by knotting red ribbons to the tree branches as is done in Chinese temples. The forest directed us with the soft rustle of a thousand prayers. Still, some

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： The trail began at Dahedong, a village in the shadow of a great dam, and climbed up steep terraces of tea fields before winding along a dry creek, a tumble of boulders suspended in mid-flow down the slope. When I touched them to steady myself, t

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： The sun was low and the air still hot when I swallowed the last drops from my canteen. My companion and I were hiking up the southern pass of Laoshan, a mountain of sun-bleached granite and hidden oases, rising over the Yellow Sea on China’s eas

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Billing itself as the first boutique hotel in the historical Alfama neighborhood, the 42-room Memmo Alfama (Travessa das Merceeiras 27; 351-21-049-5660; memmoalfama.com) has a rooftop mosaic infinity pool and wine bar that both feature views ove

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： After the success of the Independente Hostel & Suites — a stylish boutique hostel and hip bar — the same group has transformed the neighboring townhouse into the Independente Suites & Terrace (Rua de Sao Pedro de Alcantara 81; 351-21-13

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Sundays are sleepy in Lisbon — unless you discover Room 61 of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, a repository of excellent European painting. That particular gallery shakes the soul. “Salome,” by Lucas Cranach the Elder, is an early 16th-centur

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外语题库22021-05-05

翻译题： Directions to Park aren’t promising: Walk into a downbeat concrete parking garage, take the graffiti-stained elevator to the top floor, and trudge up the ramp to the roof. But the payoff is a surprising oasis of trees, bushes and exotic flora w

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