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Unit 5 Escaping to Ireland for Christmas 【TO escape the commercial and familial hoopla of the holidays, my husband and I like to take our children to faraway places for a different kind of celebration - one that we create from the bits of experience and tradition we value most. 为了逃避家族的商业和喧闹的假期，我和我丈夫喜欢我们的孩子采取一种不同的庆祝活动 - 位的经验和传统，我们最看重的，我们创建的遥远的地方。Traveling at Christmas is part of our general inclination to set out against the seasonal tides. 在圣诞节旅行，是我们的一般倾向对季节性潮汐载的一部分。We go north in the winter (but not to ski), south in the summer; we stay home to work on weekends and slip out of town on a Tuesday; and when it begins to pour, we don layers of raingear and head for the most mist-enshrouded beaches or for forest trails, glowing with colors the rain unfurls.我们往北走在冬天（但不滑雪） ，南部在夏天，我们留在家里，在周末工作，并滑出镇在星期二，当它开始倒，我们没有雨具和头部的层最薄雾笼罩的海滩或森林小径泛着颜色雨中的推进。】 【I confess that avoiding gridlock and extortionate rates are the real motives behind this behavior, but our contrariness stems not so much from what we dont find at the end of these odd journeys as from what we do find: Mont-St.-Michel sparkling and deserted under steely January skies; a spontaneous candlelit dinner with the owners at a snowbound Vermont inn one winter weekday; two turns on any ride and a front-row spot for the Christmas parade at Disney World the week after Thanksgiving; the elegant gardens at Sissinghurst in England, tangled and fading on an autumn afternoon; the beach all to ourselves and some great blue herons during the hot lulls between thunderstorms on Captiva Island in September. 我得承认，避免僵局及敲诈率是这种行为背后的真正动机，但我们作对与其说是源于我们没有发现什么奇怪的旅程结束时，这些从我们发现：山圣 - 米歇尔波光粼粼的冷清钢铁1月的天空下，在大雪佛蒙特酒店一到冬天平日与业主自发的烛光晚餐;两圈上任意驰骋和前排现货圣诞游行在迪斯尼世界感恩节之后的一周，优雅的花园在英格兰，纠结和衰落的一个秋天的下午，海滩都对自己和一些大蓝鹭在炎热的九月之间的间歇Captiva的岛雷暴西辛赫斯特。】 【The ingenuity to make such arrangements, the stamina to endure them, and the sense of humor to fend off the inevitable skepticism - Ireland in December? - are learned through long and difficult experience. 别出心裁地做出这样的安排，忍受它们的后劲，和