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This book, Cychgeography by Jon Day, tackles two needs, one relatively under-addressed, and the other well catered for: 【F1】the
This book, Cychgeography by Jon Day, tackles two needs, one relatively under-addressed, and the other well catered for: 【F1】the
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This book, Cychgeography by Jon Day, tackles two needs, one relatively under-addressed, and the other well catered for: 【F1】
the first is the lack of books about cycling in the city, as opposed to walking in it; the second is the keenness of the intellectual to manual labour, or, to speak more accurately here, pedal labour.
Jon Day was a cycle courier for about eight years: this can take it out of you. 【F2】
On a tough day you can chew up around 80 miles or more, and it takes a toll on the body, especially the knees.
These side effects are worse if you ride a fixed-gear bicycle, or fixie: the pedals go round when the wheels do, so there is no freewheeling. The advantage is that the fixie gives the rider a better "feel" for the road. 【F3】
Day claims that bikes, like water, want to flow downhill and cycling tends to uncover, almost unconsciously, the old waterways and trade routes of a landscape.
Ride a bike in London and you often find yourself following the ancient grass lines of the city’s subterranean rivers. The pull feels curiously elemental—your bicycle becomes a dowsing rod. "Those last two words are a red rag to the rationalist; but the more you think about it, the more sense it makes."
It is not all mystery. The world of the cycle courier may contain its thoughtful types, like Bill, the ex-courier turned controller, who says "they talk about soldiers and prostitutes as the oldest jobs. I would put messengers before them", and【F4】
"I went through a phase where I deliberately tried to get lost, because London’s so big that the idea of knowing where you are all the time is so overwhelming."
But if you live in a city where there are cycle couriers you will be unsurprised to hear of the "alleycats"—the large, not quite illegal races in which cycle couriers dash along with even less consideration for other road and pavement users than they usually exhibit.
But there is more to the book than this, too: 【F5】
Day is well-read, and knows which writers knew about bicycles and were fascinated by their almost Cartesian (笛卡尔的) fusion of man and machine, and by extension mind and machine.
He knows Flann O’Brien and his description of the blending of atoms between rider and cycle; Beckett, and his Molloy’s helpless reliance on his bicycle, forced to a crawl when deprived of it.
【F2】
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在比较艰苦的某一天,你可能会一点一点地骑行大约80英里或更远,而这会给身体,特别是膝盖造成损伤。
解析
①本句为and连接的并列句。第一个分句是一个主谓宾结构,介词短语On a tough day作时间状语,说明在何时可以骑行大约80英里。②第二个分句也是主谓宾结构,该句的谓语为take a toll on…,意为“对……产生严重的不良影响”。
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