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Notes from a Big Country
Bill Bryson · 初版 1998 年
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来自 Notes From a Small Island 作者的现象级畅销书。从形状完美的土豆到行为不端的美国总统，从家庭风波到千禧狂热，Bill Bryson 总是忍不住抒发己见，并为他那些（绝大多数）守法的美国同胞挺身而出。当然，在英格兰生活了二十年之后，他如今重返大西洋彼岸，显然在重新找回自己真正的美国人认同方面遇到了一点小麻烦。在经历了阿巴拉契亚步道上的剧烈运动后，这本精选文集呈现了 Bryson 最具辛辣讽刺意味的幽默篇章，均选自他的
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你说的过度消费生活方式绝对没错。这里引用一段我刚读过的 Bill Bryson 的书《Notes from a Big country》：最让人难过的是，如果我们稍微收敛一下奢侈挥霍的毛病，削减温室气体排放的很大一部分目标其实根本不需要任何成本就能实现。据估计……
You're definitely right about the overconsumption lifestyle. This is a quote from a Bill Bryson book I was just reading called Notes from a Big country: What is saddest about all this is that a good part of these goals to cut greenhouse emissions could be met without any cost at all if we merely modified our extravagance. It has been estimated that…
……“就像弗吉尼亚州的威廉斯堡，或者康涅狄格州的米斯蒂克，游客们花大价钱去体验那种宁静的乡村气息，而这种生活他们早在多年前为了住进开阔快活的郊区就已经抛弃了。”——Bill Bryson，《Notes from a big country》。在法国，我们正努力保护这些小店和这类遗产。我不敢说我们成功了（因为现在这些店大多变成了主流品牌的加盟店、银行、保险公司和房产中介，他们……
…like Williamsburg, Virginia, or Mystic, Connecticut, where visitors pay good money to savour the sort of tranquil village atmosphere that they long ago fled for the happy sprawl of suburbs." Bill Bryson, Notes from a big country. In France we are trying to manage those shops and this heritage. I don't say that we succeed (because now those shops are mostly franchises form mains brands, banks, assurances ans real estates, who…
Bill Bryson 的《Notes from a big country》是一个移居美国的英国人对美利坚提出的一番颇有争议的见解。
Notes from a big country, Bill Bryson, is an controversial view on the USA from an Englisch man who moved to Amerika.
我小时候第二次去美国也是第一次公路旅行时，读了 Bill Bryson 的《Notes from a Big Country》。我完全相信他在这个主题上写的内容，幸运的是这里有摘录 [1]。我们当时开过了超长的距离……
I read 'Notes from a Big Country' by Bill Bryson during my second visit and first road trip in America as a child. I could entirely believe what he wrote on this topic, which fortunately is extracted here [1]. We covered a huge distance,…