雅思口语里有个car trip的话题，其实，自驾游不一定非得是“今天天气好晴朗，处处好风光”，有些人就没有那么幸运嘛，可能在路上开进沟里(The car ran off the road into a ditch.)，或者半路遇到野狼，再或者遭遇极端的天气，导航突然失灵(GPS stopped working)，轮胎突然爆掉(got a flat)，或者同行的人有人晕车(carsickness)，有人生病，有人水土不服上吐下泻…… 也有“梦想很美好，现实很残酷”的情况，例如，有位小朋友去蒙古之前，在脑海里勾勒出了各种美好的图景：在草原上策马奔腾，蒙古包里喝着奶茶，围在篝火旁烤全羊，夜里仰头看星星…… 但实际的情况是，被蚊子咬的浑身是包，睡觉都要戴口罩，吃不惯当地的美味，加上晕车的折磨，简直是噩梦一场。一路都是戏的经历，不跟考官分享一下，真是可惜了：
I’d like to talk about the road trip I had to Inner Mongolia with my mom when I was little.
That was many years ago, but I could still remember it well, ‘cause it was actually a horrible experience.
First of all, I suffered from serious carsickness. In my memory, I basically puked all the time when I was in the car. I felt terrible.
While we were there, we stayed in a huge tent, you know, the typical house for Mongolians. That was a complete nightmare. The mosquitos there were this big! And they could bite your legs even when you were wearing pants. If I remember right, I got 25 mosquito bites in less than 5 minutes when I was in the toilet. It was really painful, I couldn’t even sit down, you know. And I had to wear a mask when I was sleeping.
Besides, I couldn’t get used to the diet there. For example, the milk tea served in Mongolia was salty! The first time I drank it, I thought it was some kind of drink that went bad.
But… well, on the upside, we could have a barbecue whenever we wanted to. And I had to say, the lamb chops and legs of lamb there were out of this world! It’s something I’d never tasted before. So I guess that made up for the miserable experience.
语言点解析：
road trip = (informal, especially NAmE) a trip made in a car over a long distance
go bad = not safe to eat because it has decayed例如：
Put the meat in the fridge so it doesn’t go bad.
on the upside = when the good parts or advantages are considered例如：
On the upside, the car does have a lot of trunk space.
make up for something = to do something that corrects a bad situation = compensate例如：
Nothing can make up for the loss of a child.
After all the delays, we were anxious to make up for lost time.
Her enthusiasm makes up for her lack of experience.
A warm and sunny September made up for a miserable wet August.
miserable = making you feel very unhappy or uncomfortable = depressing例如：
miserable housing conditions
I spent a miserable weekend alone at home.
What a miserable day! (= cold and wet)
The play was a miserable failure.
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朱博，新东方吉林学校雅思口语美女讲师，毕业于985院校大连理工大学，硕士保送一等奖学金。在校期间曾游学美国，任出版社英语出版中心校对四年，工作严谨，活泼开朗，让大家快乐的学习英语。
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