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欢迎你回到到华美国

Hello

James ames

Hello 露

Luso

Today we're going to talk about something

That is quite new or quite unfamiliar to chinese listeners

But one of the big part of american culture

American life which is camping

Yes

We're going to talk about sleeping in the great outdoors

I have to say i'm not a very outdoorzy kind of person

I don't really understand camping that

But well americans outdoors senist are being in the outdoors is a big part of our culture

I mean throughout a lot of american history

Here's about settlers moving across the land

So living off the land

Hunting

Fishing

General things that we think of us activities for fun now

And it's just become part of our culture

So would you say the majority of americans had some sort of camping experience

Yeah

Most people will have camping experience

But there is a difference between people who are from the city

And people come from more rural countryside areas

With obviously people on the countryside do more outdoor activities like campaign

Where as people on the city mailly to do this a couple of times

Times

Their their life

What about you

I grew up in the countryside

And i did this all throw out my childhood

I love camping

It's one thing

I really miss about america

对对对

How often did you use to do it like once a month oyeah growing up was monthly now a basic question

When you talk about camping ling

What exactly do you guys do is it just sleeping outdoors

Well if you want to to boil it to the most simple idea than yes but to us for most americans

It's the vision of 三

Being outside sleeping in attent sitsitting at a camp fire with family and friends

啊

Camp fire

就是这个篝火

Camp fire and what do you do

When you sit around the camp fire

Well

If you watch a lot of american tv shows and movies

Still hear things like people tells goast stories and things like that

But that's not been my experience

General people just chat tell stories and then they could uh things on sticks

That ''ll put hot dogs or marshmallows on a stick and cook them over the fire

I've only seen that in american tv shows like marshmallows in china

We definitely don't think of them as something that can be roasted marshmellow

就是这个棉花糖这种

一小块一小块

So you guys roasted over campfire

Yeah

The goals to make a nice and golden fire with a chrispe surface and the inciad of be nice gooly

Lovely

But surely you're not just eating hot dogs and marsh mallows

Oh No

We cook creaks their food only go camping

Some people will even cook pretty elaborate meals depending on how much stuff they want to take with them okay earlier on you talked about going camping with family and friends

And which one would you say is more common for people to go with friends

Their own age or go with their family member

Well

I'would say it's mostly family

But is something you'd kind of see parents do with their children um

But it is not on common for adults to go camping with their friends

But it's still far more of a family activity and most people's minds um okay

So that's the basicand about camping

But then where to go

Can you just go anywhere with there's nature

Not really you can camp in a lot of public grounds

Like public force naal fortes

But in general most people camp at official camp grounds

Which

Which are run by a government service camp grounds

But these campgrounds are usually in nature natural areas

Or they put them next to on neninic sites

They'll be camp site tes in places like yellow those stone or the grand canyon or many other natural scenery spots in america

就是大峡谷或者黄石公园这样的大的景点旁边会有很多这种campsite

就是官方的露营地

I bet those are not free

No unfortunately

They aren't

But they aren't expensive either in general the cost around ten dollars a night to reserve your space

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And you can reserve their space

Now online

You can look up the campsite

You can go online pay it

And when you reserve it

You have a park in spot

They'll be a usually a picnic table a place to have a fire that safer

So it doesn't like burn down the forest

Uusually area to sit up tenson stuff

And these campsites they are all all over the country

Yes

They are everywhere

And the other benefit is staying at these places

They usually also have toilets

Oh

Which brings us to the next topic

What kind of things

What kind of equipment or tools

Do you need to bring or take with you on a camping trip

The general equipment is you need a tent to sleep in um

A sleeping bag to keep you warm

And you probably going to need a really big backpack carcarry everything

Don't you take your car to carry

Well ah ah you

You to be you park

Park and what 're 're going be camaming might not be it's you ffwell you will be very usually

But they might not be next to each other

But you also need to take things like your dishes

You'll need to use food

Youyou want to eat usually a camp stove

So you can do cooking

What is a camp stove

Is it like a portable gve

Yeah

It's a portable gas stove

So you have to bring the gas as well um

You'll need to bring things to build fire

Would and all these other kinds of equipment

It's pretty long list

It's 以就是ccamstove ve

就是像那种简易的这种这种煤气炉

然后他带了一罐这种气

I'm sure

If you are doing that in china

If you are a camper in china

You would know what that is so i camp stove this brings ings us the earlier question

When you're in the woods or in nature

You're not next to any modern equipment and amenities

What if you need to go to the toilet

What can you do the all okay um bury it

Why do you have to bury it

There it can be for cleanleness reasons

I mean it can smell

And it also can attract animals

Yes by the way is it dangerlife mean do you have any dangerous wild life around

So when you camp

Do you have to watch out for really scary bamms like bears

Yes

That well that really will depend where you go camping

But yes there are are bears

There are places

America

That do you have venanamous snakes

There are some places

That have insects

You probably don't want to be bitten by okay

But how do you cope with those

How do you prepare for those well to be fair

Most animal al tax like that are rare

So most people don't think about it and in terms of bugs and insects

They have sprase for that

That 这种防虫的喷雾或者说喷季

And i guess i am very much into like cleanliness

So another question would be how can you shower or wash yourself well for most people they just do weekend camping trips

So they just kind of forgo the shower for a day or so it's just an overnight thing

Yeah

It's pretty easy to still wash your face and brush your teeth

Um

But people who go caming for like

Like week at

At time time they just think

呃

干脆就全身脏兮兮的

也就忍了吧

I don't really think that's for a lot of people

Now most people don't do that

That's for pretty small groups

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So when do people actually camp

Let's say around a year

Oknow this probably wouldn't be that surprising

But generally from late spring through early fall

When the weather 's nicest

Yeah

But a probably like to go campaign

Especially during the summer holidays like americamerica

The end of may we have what's called memorial day weekend

So it would be a three day weekend

So really popular one yeah

But does that mean that

If it's like in china

When it's a public holiday

Every tourist site is packed

What about campsites did they get packed

They'll be at what's called at capacity

Which means every single spot will be four

And it probably was reserved well in advanced

Oh

You can reserve campsite 可以预定them 吗

If they say they are capcapacties like you

You not go

Go correcct

Hey

Now a little bit more about what you do

Apart from sleeping in nature

Apart from your cooking

All these basics

What do you do for fun

When most people go camping

They are usually doing in another activity on top of it

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Like comon and would be be and stuff

So you camp at near mountains or hills

And then during the daytime you'll go hiking up the hills and stuff 就是徒步了

Hiking walking king their esspecially and a lot of people go camping

Near fishing holes

Lakes

Rivers

Single fishing

But do you catch your dinner

Some people to do

But it is a good idea to have a backup

If you're not good at fishing and any other things you would do sure

Some people will do

Like boating activities

Um swimming are playing in lakes

There are tons of activities

You can do outside mountain by gaking and so on so making an activity

Like an activity holidays

So most people don't just sit around the campsite and do nothing um

Some people do do

But don't okay before we end totoyy's pisode

Let let us look at some caming ing terms

How the activity of camping has affected the language right

So we're going to look at three terms

Today the first one is a general purpose term ic news all the time is called roughing it

Roughing it rough like rough yeah

Which means to do things with very limited conveniences

So it be doing things like the hard way or doing it the old fashioned way

啊

有点那个吃苦的那个意思

So roughing it is basically you don't have a lot to use right

You have the basic

It's ideas like you're going outside to sleep at night

And you have a knife simple cloth okay

That's roughing

That's roughing it to make camping

Itself would be roughing it and next one is a fairly simple one

It sleep under the stars

And sleep under the stars that's very romantic

If you don't think about the bug and the public twilet like you can sip under the stars for a lot of people on their own backyard or some place

That's not you're going to be be like then it is literally that

But when you sit undunder the ars

Ars

You're not in atent ent

You are out in the

Out in the open

So you'll wake up early and last one is pitch a tent

Pitch a tent

Pitch

Pitch it's just put up a ten

It literally is put up a tent okay

But we can also use this as an didium say say we should get prepared for something um almost yeyei just means to set up to um all right

So that's the end of today's pisode

And and ve learned some basics about camping and in the advanced episode

We are going to explore a little bit more

What's behind is future ture

See you next time buy everyone bye