2024年4月21日发(作者：iphone8plus上市售价)

旅游英语口语：A tourist or a traveller 旅

游者还是旅行者

趁假期出门远游真是个放松身心，又可以开拓视野的好方法。但你认真思

索过tourist和traveller的区分吗？自己又是哪一类呢？

Are you a tourist, or a traveller?

And more importantly: who cares? It”s such a stupid question.

There are people out there who truly believe they”re doing their

travel in a way that”s fundamentally “better“ than everyone else,

but they”re kidding themselves. Really, we”re all just out there

taking time off from our jobs to spend some of our money – we”

re all essentially the same.

It”s cool to think you”re a “traveller“ though. There was

even a credit card company running a campaign recently with the

slogan “Are you a tourist or a traveller?“ Because apparently using

a certain brand of credit card would be the deciding factor.

And you know when the banks are trying to cash in that this whole

tourist/traveller thing has jumped the shark（开头走下坡路，失去

吸引力）.

The only difference I can see between tourists and travellers

is a fair whack of pretension.

If you take yourself seriously enough to boast of being a

“traveller“, then there are probably a few other labels for you

that are equally appropriate.

“Travellers“ are out there though. For those on the lookout,

the common, garden-variety traveller has a few dead giveaways.

You won”t find a traveller at the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum.

Travellers would avoid the obvious destinations and instead plump

for somewhere that”s rarely visited, and preferably requires a

cool-looking visa. That destination might turn out to be rubbish

– not that a traveller would admit it – but that”s besides the

point.

The fact is they went there, and the tourists didn”t.

There”s a fair amount of looking down of noses, too, mostly

at that perceived bunch of “tourists“ – you know, the ones who

would happily spend their entire week-long summer break getting

their hair braided in Kuta and not give a damn what anyone thought

of them.

And in that respect, I”m with the tourists. Who cares how you

do your travel? It”s your money, your time – spend it how you want.

Some people seem to look at travel as a sort of competition,

a global amassing of points to hold over others who haven”t had

the same experiences. There”s real animosity from those who don”

t think other people are doing their travel “right“.

I find the whole thing bizarre. Travel is a purely individual

pursuit – there is no right or wrong.

Being a writer, however, I do feel an irresistible urge to group

people into neat little categories for the sake of brevity, so I”

ve been having a think about those of us that travel. If you really

had to group people by their travel habits, I”d say there are

probably two different categories out there: explorers, and

relaxers.

One”s not better than the other. And the two aren”t mutually

exclusive. Not even on the same holiday. Some people, granted, will

always be explorers. Others are destined to always be relaxers. Some,

however, will flick between the two within a week.

So here”s how it goes. Relaxers travel to do just that: relax.

They don”t want the hassle of screaming touts and constant haggling

and buses that don”t turn up, people who can”t understand them,

and food they can”t eat.

They work hard at home – on holidays, they want to chill. So

they go to beach resorts and drink cocktails out of coconuts. They

book into the same hotel for a week. They go on organised tours and

allow someone else to do all the hard slog. They go somewhere clean

and easy where bedbugs don”t bite, food doesn”t poison, crowds

don”t push, people don”t beg, and everything works the way it”

s supposed to, when it”s supposed to.

They can just relax.

Explorers will sacrifice some of that relaxation for the

opportunity to find something they haven”t seen before. They”

ll put up with dirty rooms booked at the last minute, weird food

that no one can explain, and all the struggles that come with a

language barrier.

In return they”ll get a sometimes amazing, sometimes

frightening, but always interesting experience that they”ll need

a few weeks at work just to recover from.

Everyone will have their preference. Me, I”m mostly an explorer

kind of guy. I can handle the odd day”s relaxation, but I get bored

easily – I need entertainment.

I don”t consider that that is a fundamentally “better“ way

to travel than going and lying on a beach, though. It”s just

different. My personal preference.

Travellers, however, might disagree.