经济实惠是露营的一大有力动机，因为在最初购置装备（或通过租借）之后，总体花销可以远低于入住酒店的费用。
Economy is one powerful motive for camping, since after the initial outlay upon equipment, or through hiring it, the total expense can be far less than the cost of hotels.
但是，与一种流行的假设恰恰相反，经济性远非唯一的动机，甚至远非最重要的动机。
But, contrary to a popular assumption, it is far from being the only one, or even the greatest.
那些漫不经心地将车驶入欧洲无数永久性营地中那一小块（价值20英镑的）空间的露营者，没准儿会发现自己正撞上一辆宾利轿车。
The man who manoeuvres carelessly into his 20 pounds' worth of space at one of Europe's myriad permanent sites may find himself bumping a Bentley.
更有可能的情形是：福特嘉年华和雷诺或奔驰并排停放，轮毂挨着轮毂——而骑双人自行车而来的人却寥寥无几。
More likely, Ford Escort will be hub to hub with Renault or Mercedes, but rarely with bicycles made for two.
现代露营装备每年都变得更加精良复杂——这对愤世嫉俗者而言是一个耐人寻味的悖论，对那位发誓要彻底逃离现代文明的乐观旅行者而言，则是一个更光明的承诺。
That the equipment of modern camping becomes yearly more sophisticated is an entertaining paradox for the cynic, a brighter promise for the hopeful traveller who has sworn to get away from it all.
它还提供了另一种意义上的逃离——某位研究生社会学者或许愿意以这一现象为基础写一篇论文。
It also provides--and some student sociologist might care to base his thesis upon the phenomenon--an escape of another kind.
现代旅行者往往是这样一类人：他不喜欢"华丽大酒店"和"美景大酒店"，不是因为他负担不起或刻意回避那些物质享受，而是因为他根本怕进那种地方。
The modern traveller is often a man who dislikes the Splendide and the Bellavista, not because he cannot afford, or shuns their material comforts, but because he is afraid of them.
他或许富裕，但他根本不确定应该给门童或客房女服务员多少小费。
Affluent he may be, but he is by no means sure what to tip the doorman or the chambermaid.
在自己家里他或许是一家之主，但面对酒店经理时，他完全不知道该如何开口说一个"不"字。
Master in his own house he has little idea of when to say boo to a manager hotel.
露营将他从所有这些恐惧中解放出来。
From all such fears camping releases him.
诚然，露营本身也存在一种基于装备和技术水平的势利心——但这种势利是他完全能够理解并应对的那一类。
Granted, a snobbery of camping itself, based upon equipment and techniques, already exists; but it is of a kind that, if he meets it, he can readily understand and deal with.
不存在以管理层和酒店等级体系为形态的那种高高在上的"他们"来给他的假期蒙上阴影。
There is no superior 'they' in the shape of managements and hotel hierarchies to darken his holiday days.
除了这些动机之外，还必须加上另外一个。
To such motives, yet another must be added.
当代汽车崇拜这一现象，在很大程度上可以用拥有汽车所带来的独立感与自由感来解释。
The contemporary phenomenon of car worship is to be explained not least by the sense of independence and freedom that ownership entails.
露营为这种乐趣赋予了一种极致的升华。
To this pleasure camping gives an exquisite refinement.
从自家前门出发，驱车前往国内或国外的山丘和沙滩，再返回家门，一切所需都唾手可得。
From one's own front door to home or foreign hills or sands and back again, everything is to hand.
不仅抵达假日天堂的手段完全在自己的掌控与保管之中，而且逃离假日地狱的手段（如果沙滩过于拥挤、当地天气过于恶劣）也就在那里——帐篷外，或者，说不定就是帐篷的一部分。
Not only are the means of arriving at the holiday paradise entirely within one's own command and keeping, but the means of escape from holiday hell (if the beach proves too crowded, the local weather too inclement) are there, outside--or, as likely, part of--the tent.
理想主义者曾对露营的做法提出批评——就像对包价旅游的批评一样——认为出国的旅行者因此剥夺了自己了解所到国家人民的机会。
Idealists have objected to the practice of camping, as to the package tour, that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited.
有人认为，（露营的）封闭性与自给自足性是相互依存、相辅相成的。
Insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand.
这种观点经不起在欧洲大陆一处热门营地的实际体验的检验。
The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place.
度假酒店往往专门（有时甚至是独家地）服务于某一国籍的游客。
Holiday hotels tend to cater for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively.
相比之下，露营地则具有高度的国际多元性。
Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan.
诚然，在大多数地中海营地，德国人占多数似乎是一个共同特点；但就目前而言，还没有出现压倒性的单一国籍垄断情况。
Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage.
禁止在户外晾晒衣物、或禁止使用供水点洗车，或邀请"我们的露营朋友"参加舞会或游船活动的公告，不仅以法语、意大利语或西班牙语印刷，而且也以英语、德语和荷兰语印刷。
Notices forbidding the open-air drying of clothes, or the use of water points for car washing, or those inviting 'our camping friends' to a dance or a boat trip are printed not only in French or Italian or Spanish, but also in English, German and Dutch.
用餐时分，泡菜的气味与大蒜的气味相互竞争（交织在一起）。
At meal times the odour of sauerkraut vies with that of garlic.
法国人的早餐咖啡与英国人的培根和鸡蛋相互竞争（各显其味）。
The Frenchman's breakfast coffee competes with the Englishman's bacon and eggs.
有组织的露营的显著增长是否意味着更具独立性的那种露营方式最终走向消亡，目前难以断言。
Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.
市政当局自然希望获取露营者缴纳的场地费和其他消费收入。
Municipalities naturally want to secure the campers' site fees and other custom.
警察对那些无法被追踪到已知营地边界或固定居所的流动人口抱有戒心。
Police are wary of itinerants who cannot be traced to a recognized camp boundary or to four walls.
但最可能的情况是，这一切都将取决于露营者自身：他们会引发多少荒野火灾；他们会留下多少垃圾；简言之，他们是否会彻底疏远地主以及居住在乡村的人们。
But most probably it will all depend upon campers themselves: how many heath fires they cause; how much litter they leave; in short, whether or not they wholly alienate landowners and those who live in the countryside.
只有良好的童子军精神（对环境负责、遵守规则），才有可能保住那些对永恒的童子军精神而言最为珍贵的自由。
Only good scouting is likely to preserve the freedoms so dear to the heart of the eternal Boy Scout.