在度假

The full version of this story was first found in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts and reprised in The Salmon of Doubt, but the short version is as follows: Adams had gone on holiday in Greece, but every time he had decided to go to the beach with his fellows, he discovered

故事的完整版本初见於《银河便车指南：原版广播剧本》，并且覆刊於The Salmon of Doubt，不过短版的故事如下：亚当斯去了希腊度假，但每当他决定带著他的随从去海边的时候，他的毛巾总是不见了，而且得在好几个小时的寻找后才会出现。

The natural beauty remains, but the man-made amenities have fallen on hard times. Many of the stone mansions were turned into getaways for Communist officials and sanitariums for work units after the party's 1949 victory, and gradually sank into a state of often not-so-genteel disrepair.

如今，莫干山依然保持着当年的自然美景，但人工设施在动荡时期遭到了破坏。1949年共产党上台后，许多用天然石材建造的房屋成了领导干部的度假别墅和单位职工的疗养院，并逐渐被荒废，失去了昔日的风采。

They were scrimping and scraping all winter so that they could have a good holiday this summer.

他们整个冬天精打细算过日子，以便省下钱来在夏天舒舒服服度假。

E.g. They summered at a beach resort.

他们在海滩的度假屋避暑。

To pass the summer:度过夏天: They summered at a beach resort.

他们在沙滩度假胜地度过了夏天 summer adj。

Are there any surcharges or time restrictions We are tentatively planning to take our vacation in early June.

这个项目有没有时间限制？我们初步打算在6月初去度假。

Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers gorged on cheap debt and built bigger and swankier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.

尽管其它许多公司经受住了诱惑，没有大举借贷，但房产开发商们大肆借贷，建造时髦的高楼大厦，就好象全世界都准备在拉斯维加斯度假一样。

My mother turned up trumps and lent me the money to go on holiday.

我妈在我困难之时帮了我一把，借钱给我去度假。

For someone reputed to be obsessed with details, he seemed oddly disengaged; after the loss materialised, he trundled off on holiday.

对于一个以注重细节闻名的人来说，他似乎格外轻闲。而在损失发生后，他则跑去度假。

For someone reputed to be obsessed with details, he seemed oddly disengaged; after the loss materialised, he trundled off on holiday.

对于一个以注重细节闻名的人来说，他显得似乎格外散漫。而在损失发生后，他则跑去度假。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。