D12: Footnotes

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Reading the ceilings of old buildings you wander into is Perfectly Normal Behavior.走进古老建筑时，观察天花板是完全正常的行为。

¹ Even as an increasing number of business trips means an increasing number of expensive hotel rooms, I'm consistently disappointed—even in rooms that have two beds—by the lack of chairs and tables suitable for use by more than one person at a time.

¹ 即使商务旅行次数多了意味着住贵价酒店房间的次数也多了，但我还是一直很失望——即使是在有两张床的房间里——缺少适合供多人使用的椅子和桌子。

² Unlike Dr. M, I managed to at least swallow the bite I tried.

² 和M博士不一样，我至少设法咽下了我尝的那一口。

Whilst using her shoe to try to clean surface dirt off of a stele that's embedded in the ground near an old well shaft, Dr. M regrets that she didn't pack a brush with her当M博士试图用她的鞋子清理嵌入在古井附近的一块石碑的污垢时，她后悔没有带上一把刷子。

³ Unlike 宾馆 which clearly only means place to stay, 酒店 can mean either a place where you eat or a place where you sleep.

³与“宾馆”明确只表示住宿的地方不同，“酒店”既可以表示吃饭的地方，也可以表示睡觉的地方。

⁴ The entrance of which was immediately discovered thirty seconds after we left the hotel, and which required sufficient climbing on dodgy vertical paths that I rode on ahead confident in the knowledge that the stronger rider would catch up to me with photos of what she found.

⁴ 我们离开酒店后三十秒就立刻发现了明代堡垒的入口，而且要进入堡垒需要在不太安全的垂直路径上攀爬，所以我自信地骑到前面去了，因为我知道更强壮的M博士会带着她拍的照片追上我。

We knew well enough not to stand on the wood bits我们很清楚不能站在木头部件上。

⁵ Neither of us thought to check the Antiquities Atlas

⁵ 我们俩都没想到去查看《文物地图集》。

⁶ We both pretty much ignored the new temple encroaching on and directly next to the sign delineating the Core Conservation Area

⁶ 虽然它紧挨着划定核心保护区的标志，我们基本上都忽略了那座新寺庙，

⁷ And, possibly because pagodas have a lot of ... ahem ... male energy ... it's for adult circumcision.

⁷ 而且，可能因为宝塔有很多……嗯……阳刚之气……这个广告是关于切包皮的。

Temple building inside the core conservation area核心保护区内的老寺庙建筑

More partially buried stelae that were toppled over by people rude enough to leave them date side down还有个被埋的石碑，也推倒在刻有日期的一面朝下。

⁸ All the way back in October 2008, near the old Dayingshan Airport in Haikou, my first ever time being interrogated, I'm still impressed with the way in which they went about determining that I could speak and read Chinese† before letting me know where I was and just how much trouble I was in for being there.

⁸ 早在2008年10月，在海口旧机场（现在的日月广场）附近，我第一次被审问的事件，我仍然对他们在告诉我，我身处何地以及我因为身处那里而陷入了多大的麻烦之前，先确定我能说和读中文的方式印象深刻†。

† He chatted with me and gave me directions to the road I missed!

† 他和我聊聊天，还指导我怎么去我错过的近路！

Painted rafters on a temple building inside the core conservation area核心保护区内老寺庙建筑上彩绘的椽子

⁹ Until very recently, the main road which everyone uses to go to the Shuiman Township tourist sites from downtown Wuzhishan.

⁹ 例如，往年所有游客从五指山市区去水满时走的主要道路。

¹⁰ First yurt of the year was on the second biking day in Shanxi when heading south to the turn off I'd skipped the day before

¹⁰ 今年遇到的第一个蒙古包是在山西骑行的第二天，当时正朝南前往我前一天错过的岔路口。

¹¹ Every time this has happened—with the exception of an extremely reasonable desire to know how a civilian (let alone a foreign one!) got to where I was without anyone thinking to stop me—the authorities have been great ... to me ...

¹¹ 每次发生这种情况，除了有一种非常合理的想知道一个平民（更不用说一个外国人了！）是如何在没人想到要阻止我的情况下到达我所在的地方的好奇心之外，当局对我都很好…… 就是说没阻止我的人的经验估计没那么好。

A pair of Lei Feng in Shenchi神池遇到的两个“雷锋”图

¹² There was this one time in Zhejiang in either 2017 or 2019 where the hotels were running a fork of the Blue Variant of the Hotel Guest Registration System where the police had remotely disabled the foreigner component† and were requiring foreigners to go to the police station to register.

¹² 有一次在浙江，大概是2017年或2019年，当时酒店使用的是公安游信息登记系统蓝色版本的一个分支系统，警方远程禁用了该系统的外国人登记功能†，并要求外国人去警察局登记。

† Because the Blue Variant and its forks are the most common flavor of Public Security's Online Hotel Guest Registration System and because I was behind the counter attempting to register myself, I am very certain that it was not "operator error."

† 因为蓝色版本及其分支系统是公安在线酒店客人登记系统中最常见的版本，而且当时我在柜台后面试图自己登记，所以我非常确定这不是“操作员失误”。

¹³ A guy that saw us riding "invited" us to dinner only for us to skip multiple food options on our way to his location pin and find that he had invited us to drink tea and talk about where we might want to go to dinner, as opposed to his actually having food...

¹³ 一个看到我们骑车的人“邀请”我们去吃饭，结果我们在前往他的定位点的路上错过了多个用餐选择，却发现他邀请我们去喝茶，并讨论我们可能想去哪里吃饭，而不是准备了吃的……

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