【英语趣味课堂】打包-Packed

Jeff: So, Jonathan, you are the... maybe the most prolific¹ traveler I have ever met, and your home is a suitcase, so how do you live out of a suitcase like that?

Jonathan: I wouldn't really say my home is a suitcase, but I think that people really hold onto their possessions a little bit too much, and people think that they need to have their favorite books nearby when they probably will never even read it again. I really don't think it's necessary to have all of those things there, so I don't need to have a lot of nice clothes with me all the time. I don't need to carry around all of these souvenirs of days gone by. I'm perfectly² comfortable having just a minimal³ amount of things with me. I have changes of clothes so it's not like I'm in any way suffering from a lack of personal hygiene⁴ and such things.

 

Jeff: So, but... so what do you do? How do you clean your clothes? What do you do when you want to buy something new?

 

Jonathan: Well, I find that in fact I don't often buy some many things when I travel. I buy the necessities⁵, but I try to keep everything small in size so for example I have one small little pack that has shampoo, conditioner and body soap, and I can in fact, fill it up from a lot of hotels which offer those things to their guests. I can have a little bar of soap. I have a small towel to travel with. I can take my clothes to a coin laundry. At worst, I put on a pair of shorts while I'm washing my two pairs of jeans. If it's a cold weather country perhaps people look at me a little bit funny, but being Canadian and descended⁶ from cold weather countries, I don't have a difficulty with it.

1 prolific   

adj.丰富的，大量的；多产的，富有创造力的

参考例句：

• She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories.她是一位多产的作家，写了很多小说和短篇故事。
• The last few pages of the document are prolific of mistakes.这个文件的最后几页错误很多。

2 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

3 minimal   

adj.尽可能少的，最小的

参考例句：

• They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
• I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家，所以我的花费很小。

4 hygiene   

n.健康法，卫生学 （a.hygienic）

参考例句：

• Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
• He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。

5 necessities   

必要（性）( necessity的名词复数 )； （迫切）需要； 必需品； 自然规律

参考例句：

• They also supply other daily necessities to the city population. 他们也向城市居民提供其他日常必需品。
• Provide the bare necessities of life, especially food; keep away hunger. 供给生活必需品，特别是食物，以免于饥饿。

6 descended   

a.为...后裔的，出身于...的

参考例句：

• A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
• The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。