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Janet Mendell Goldstein
詹妮特·門德爾·戈爾茨坦
My husband and I just got back from a week's vacation in West Virginia. Of course, we couldn't wait to get there, so we took the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a couple of interstates. "Look at those gorgeous farms!" my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph. "Did you see those cows?" But at 55 mph, it's difficult to see anything; the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. For four hours, our only real amusement consisted of counting exit signs and wondering what it would feel like to hold still again. Getting there certainly didn't seem like half the fun; in fact, getting there wasn't any fun at all.
我和丈夫剛剛結束了在西弗吉尼亞州一周的度假回來。去的時候，我們當然是急于到達，因此走的是賓夕法尼亞州的收費高速公路和幾條州際公路。“看那些美麗的農場！”當田園風光以每小時55英里的速度從我們身旁閃過時，我丈夫高聲喊道。“你看見那些奶牛了嗎？”但 是以每小時55英里的速度前行，很難看清任何事物；美麗的農場看起來像移動的綠色棋盤，在后視鏡里，成群的奶牛也縮小成一些圓點。四小時的車程中，我們唯一的樂趣就是數高速公路的出口標志，想象車再次停住時是什么感覺。可以說，在去程中我們享受到的樂趣連想象中的一半都不到；事實上，去程中一點兒樂趣也沒有。
