全民发呆的澳洲

• nikkosoleil

  2014-01-18
  So there is a certain sense of achievement just in arriving in Australia -- a pleasure and satisfaction to be able to step from the airport terminal into dazzling antipodean sunshine and realize that all your many atoms, so recently missing and unaccounted form have been reassembled in a approximately normal manner (less half a pound or so of brain cells that were lost while watching a Bruce Willis movie). In the circumstances, it is a pleasure to find yourself anywhere; that it is Australia is a positive bonus.
• Shãllwē

  2012-07-11
  我餓極了。＂鎮上還有些甚麼？＂＂要看了。＂那男人說，略有所思地撓了撓喉嚨。他微微傾向我。＂你喜歡好吃的東西嗎？＂我點了點頭。我當然喜歡。＂那便沒有。＂他又回去喝他的酒。
• cactus

  2012-06-29
  布罗肯希尔在1893年达到顶峰，有16个矿，雇佣8700名矿工。今天，这里只有一个矿、700名工人了，这是人口下降的主要原因。即便如此，这一个矿出产的矿石比鼎盛时期全部16个矿的总产量还要大。其中的差别就是，从前成千上万的男人在狭小的坑井爬进爬出，今天则是几名带着炸药的工程师炸开一个教堂模样的洞穴，高至300英尺，有足球场般大小，当尘埃落定，耳际的嗡嗡声消停，一队驾驶巨型推土机的工人径直来了，铲起所有的矿石。这般做法效率奇高，只消十来年，所有的矿石就都没了，那时布罗肯希尔会变成何种模样，谁都猜得到。
• cactus

  2012-06-27
  我们在汽车旅馆见到了史蒂夫•加兰，为了庆祝我们安全抵达并刚刚发现车子原来还有第五排挡，大家穿过马路去梅登斯，加入里面乱哄哄的喧闹之中。梅登斯长条形的吧台边从头到尾一溜坐满了被太阳晒得皮粗肉糙的男人，一色的短裤、汗渍了的紧身无袖衫和宽沿的帽子。这就像一步踏进了保罗•霍根（Paul Hogan（1940— ），澳大利亚演员，曾出演《鳄鱼邓迪》，并凭借该片获得金球奖最佳喜剧男主角奖。文中提到的装扮，正是邓迪的标志性装束。）的电影。甚至较之更有味道。
• dragon killer

  2011-09-29
  犯人们骗不了长官的时候，常常愚弄自己的同伴。他们卖地图给新来的犯人，图上标注了如何步行到中国去，这种违禁交易存在了好几年。
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Then in 1952 Lang Hancock made an important discovery. While piloting a light aircraft over the trackless emptiness of the Hamersley Range near the north coast he lost his bearings in a sudden storm and made a forced landing in a zone of flat rock known to geology as the Western Shield. Stepping from his aeroplane, he realized that he was standing on almost solid iron. Looking into the matter further, he discovered that he owned a 100-kilometre-long block of nearly solid iron ore.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Sweetheart – who was, despite the effeminate name, a male – had a passionate dislike for outboard engines and used to attack any boats that disturbed his peace. Unusually for a crocodile, he never harmed a person, but he crunched at least fifteen boats and their motors, bringing a certain unexpected liveliness to many a fisherman’s afternoon. In 1979 when it was feared that he would do himself some serious harm – he was constantly being clobbered by propellers – wildlife officials decided to move him somewhere safer. Unfortunately, the capture was botched when a cable snagged and Sweetheart drowned.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Nearly everyone you meet elsewhere in Australia will tell you: ‘Oh, you must see the Gold Coast. It’s awful.’
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Realizing that nobody was going to travel hundreds of miles to visit a place called Elston (and, more to the point, that nobody was travelling hundreds of miles to visit a place called Elston), they decided to give the place a peppier name, based on something novel and upbeat. Looking around, their gaze fell on the local hotel. It was called Surfers Paradise.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  For almost two decades the state was under the control of Joh Bjelke-Peterson, an eccentric, right-wing state premier who at one time seriously entertained the notion of blowing up parts of the Great Barrier Reef with small atomic bombs to create shipping channels.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  ‘They built a memorial to him in Melbourne,’ he said. ‘Know what it was?’ I indicated that I had no idea. He grinned very slightly. ‘A municipal swimming pool.’ ‘Seriously?’ His grin broadened, but the nod was sincere.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  that in a country of so much space people chose to crowd together to relax. Perhaps it’s all that intimidating emptiness that makes Australians such social creatures.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  I am quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket was left in Australian hands, within a generation the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other. And the thing is, it would be a much better game for it.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Australians won 3.78 medals per million of population, a rate more than two and a half times better than the next best performer, Germany, and almost five times the rate of the United States.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Give Australians an issue and they will argue it so passionately and in such detail, from so many angles, with the introduction of so many loosely connected side issues, that it soon becomes impenetrable to the outsider.
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  Then I decided to come up with a new slogan for Canberra. First I wrote: ‘Canberra – There’s Nothing to It!’ and then ‘Canberra – Why Wait for Death?’ Then I thought some more and wrote: ‘Canberra – Gateway to Everywhere Else!’,
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  He would, he announced, continue to reside in Sydney and commute to Canberra as duties required. As you can imagine, this caused an uproar among Canberra’s citizens, presumably because they hadn’t thought of it themselves. What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director – someone whose burning ambition from the age of eleven was to be a funeral home director, whose proudest achievement in adulthood was to be elected president of the Queanbeyan and District Funeral Home Directors’ Association – then halve his personality and halve it again, and you have pretty well got John Howard. When a man as outstandingly colourless as John Howard turns his nose up at a place you know it must be worth a lo...
• 安非他命

  2011-07-30
  They chose as leader an Irish police officer named Robert O’Hara Burke, who had never seen real outback, was famous for his ability to get lost even in inhabited areas, and knew nothing of exploration or science.
• 奕奕

  2011-06-18
  当知道一切都可能消失在一缕烟里，你绝对会感激这一切。