人在事情限期逼近时趋向于做的事情一般人都会觉得有点奇怪。比如:仅用一天时间去徒步跨越美国北卡罗来纳州及田纳西州的大烟山国家公园里最艰难的那段山路。事实上,我并不认为这非常艰苦,尽管最近一次的三天背包跋涉中,我的脚被裹在湿袜子里,已经起水泡了。但是我的书《漫游大烟山公园》的截止日期快到了,非常紧迫, People tend to do things in the deadline approaching things most people will find it a bit strange. Take only one day, for example, to hike across the hardest part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. In fact, I do not think it’s tough, though my feet were blistered in my wet socks despite the recent three-day backpack trek. But my book, “The Great Smoky Mountain Park,” deadline is coming, very urgent,