摘要
<正>最近,许多英国人把在运河上的短途旅行变成了一种长期的生活方式。为什么他们选择离开城市,在运河上生活呢?On a damp June afternoon, a floating home moved gently on the Oxford Canal. Rachel Bruce andher husband, Chris Hall, have called this idyllic (平和美丽的) spot northwest of London home for a fewdays, looking out from the outside of their canal boat, the Glenrich V, over sweeping fields where thewind blowing through the long grass made a low hiss (嘶嘶声).