美国“广南”风景区？从来没听说过！
今年美国《旅行家》杂志 (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER) 精选了全球50个必游
景点，它名列其中。它的英文大名就是 Big Sur!
下面一句名言就足以说明为什么它会榜上有名 --
"... the greatest meeting of land and sea in the world."
("sea" 或作 “water"。都说是 Francis McComas -- an American painter -- 说的)
Big Sur 位于美国加州中部沿海，从 Carmel 到 San Simon，绵延90英里。北有硅谷，
南有好莱坞，它却最少被文明所扰动，保存了内涵丰富的自然美。当年西班牙人把这
一片地方称为
El Pais del Sur Grande = "The Country of the Big South"
Big Sur 由此得名。
在中国，谈起美国的名胜来，大家耳熟能详的都是：科罗拉多大峡谷，尼亚加拉大瀑布，
黄石公园，等等，等等，而 Big Sur 似乎并没有什么名气，连个统一的译名都没有。
我见到过：“大瑟尔”，“大梭”，“大苏尔”，等。
既然其译名仍在襁褓中，我也贡献一个：“广南”。意义不言自明。
“广南”作为地理名称，还有：中国云南文山壮族苗族自治州广南县，中国山东广南水库
(山东省最大的人工湖，面积为杭州西湖的5倍)，越南广南省，等。
《旅行家》所评选的50处世界顶级游览胜地中，美国入选的除了 Big Sur 外，还有 Grand
Canyon 和 Vermont 两处。中国入选的只有万里长城。详情见
50 PLACES OF A LIFETIME
跟贴目录:
- 补正：美国入选的还有纽约和旧金山两市。中国还有香港。因其为城市，故上文未计入。 - 学而 20001125144016
- 风景如画。这张照片的确很美，值得下载做电脑糊墙纸:-) - 古月 20001125174402
- The picture reminds me of the line:秋水共长天一色。 - The Yeti 20001126020914
- The picture reminds me of the line:秋水共长天一色。 - The Yeti 20001126020914
- 就在我隔壁 - 方壶斋 20001125193922
- Go ahead, make my day.. - The Yeti 20001126021845
- uncle yeti, about "yes, virginia, there is a santa claus" - 新学生 20001130145711
- I hope you have dental insurance. - The Yeti 20001202214955
- U know what... - No teeth left 20001202230724
- U know what... - No teeth left 20001202230724
- I hope you have dental insurance. - The Yeti 20001202214955
- uncle yeti, about "yes, virginia, there is a santa claus" - 新学生 20001130145711
- 方君近来可有诗作与歌吟的雅兴？ - bm 20001126070614
- Go ahead, make my day.. - The Yeti 20001126021845
补正：美国入选的还有纽约和旧金山两市。中国还有香港。因其为城市，故上文未计入。
作者：学而 - 2000/11/25 14:40:16 ***[ 回应此贴 | 查看原贴 ]
风景如画。这张照片的确很美，值得下载做电脑糊墙纸:-)
作者：古月 - 2000/11/25 17:44:02 ***[ 回应此贴 | 查看原贴 ]
The picture reminds me of the line:秋水共长天一色。
作者：The Yeti - 2000/11/26 02:09:14 ***[ 回应此贴 | 查看原贴 ]
就在我隔壁
作者：方壶斋 - 2000/11/25 19:39:22 ***叫“大湾南”如何？因为它是蒙特瑞海湾南边的平直海岸。译法仿照国内的“河南”“湖南”起名法。
或者“ 碧色”碧海之色也。
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Go ahead, make my day..
作者：The Yeti - 2000/11/26 02:18:45 ***Is Clint Eastwood still the mayor of Carmel ? :-)
Yes, very nice. I have had the luck of visiting that place some
15 or 20 years ago. We visited a friend in San Francisco and he drove us down to visit the place.
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uncle yeti, about "yes, virginia, there is a santa claus"
作者：新学生 - 2000/11/30 14:57:11 ***uncle yeti, i remember you mentioning "yes, virginia, there is a santa claus". i just happened to catch a documentary about this whole business on the history channel (sometime last week while i was recovering from yet another dental surgery). (and yes, my teeth are falling apart.) I found the information attached below on the web. it essentially sums up the contents of the program that i saw. so here it goes. the original url is http://www.thomasland.org/virginia.htm.
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus!
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful
author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so."
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
- Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In
this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the
intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike
faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light
with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas
eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no
sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies
dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen
and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man,
nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain
and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue
to make glad the heart of childhood.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The People's Almanac
Francis P. Church's editorial, "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" was an immediate sensation, and became one of the most famous editorials
ever written. It first appeared in the The New York Sun in 1897, over a hundred years ago, and was reprinted annually until 1949 when the paper
went out of business.
Thirty-six years after her letter was printed, Virginia O'Hanlon recalled the events that prompted her letter:
"Quite naturally I believed in Santa Claus, for he had never disappointed me. But when less fortunate little boys and girls said there wasn't any
Santa Claus, I was filled with doubts. I asked my father, and he was a little evasive on the subject.
"It was a habit in our family that whenever any doubts came up as to how to pronounce a word or some question of historical fact was in doubt,
we wrote to the Question and Answer column in The Sun. Father would always say, 'If you see it in the The Sun, it's so,' and that settled the
matter.
" 'Well, I'm just going to write The Sun and find out the real truth,' I said to father.
"He said, 'Go ahead, Virginia. I'm sure The Sun will give you the right answer, as it always does.' "
And so Virginia sat down and wrote her parents' favorite newspaper.
Her letter found its way into the hands of a veteran editor, Francis P. Church. Son of a Baptist minister, Church had covered the Civil War for The
New York Times and had worked on the The New York Sun for 20 years, more recently as an anonymous editorial writer. Church, a sardonic man,
had for his personal motto, "Endeavour to clear your mind of can't." When controversal subjects had to be tackled on the editorial page,
especially those dealing with theology, the assignments were usually given to Church.
Now, he had in his hands a little girl's letter on a most controversial matter, and he was burdened with the responsibility of answering it.
"Is there a Santa Claus?" the childish scrawl in the letter asked. At once, Church knew that there was no avoiding the question. He must answer,
and he must answer truthfully. And so he turned to his desk, and he began his reply which was to become one of the most memorable editorials in
newspaper history.
Church married shortly after the editorial appeared. He died in April, 1906, leaving no children.
Virginia O'Hanlon went on to graduate from Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts degree at age 21. The following year she received her Master's
from Columbia, and in 1912 she began teaching in the New York City school system, later becoming a principal. After 47 years, she retired as an
educator. Throughout her life she received a steady stream of mail about her Santa Claus letter, and to each reply she attached an attractive
printed copy of the Church editorial. Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas died on May 13, 1971, at the age of 81, in a nursing home in Valatie, N.Y.
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I hope you have dental insurance.
作者：The Yeti - 2000/12/02 21:49:55 ***I saw your post only today, Although I have been dropping by Hanying in the last few days, it was always for a few short minutes, just enough for a cursory quick check.
Tell you a horror story. When I was a graduate student, I needed
to have all 4 of my impacted wisdom tooth removed surgically.
(That accounts for why I was much wiser then than now !) Fortunately our grad. student stipend included dental insurance.
For an unknown reason, not made clear to me at that time, I had
to go and check into a hospital, put under completely and
had all 4 removed at the same time. Just after the operation, while
I was still on the table, I woke up and in a knee-jerk reaction, sat up.
All I remember was seeing these people in green smocks and
green face masks. Then I sank back into unconsciousness.
Hope it will never happen to you !
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U know what...
作者：No teeth left - 2000/12/02 23:07:24 ***I had already logged-off and gone to make chicken soup when it
dawned on me that I had been using the singular word tooth when I should have been using its plural form teeth.
BTW: When I tried to put everything above into the
"title", I got this ....???? Java script error.... . It had happened
several times before. I notice other people had this message popping up from time to time. For me it happens whenever I tried putting too many characters into the title.
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方君近来可有诗作与歌吟的雅兴？
作者：bm - 2000/11/26 07:06:14 ***[ 回应此贴 | 查看原贴 ]