去年秋天,我应老同学之邀,一同参加了埃及之旅。我们搭乘土耳其的航班,经过l3个小时的飞行,穿越万水千山,终于在当地时间早上9点到达埃及首都开罗。埃及是世界四大文明古国之一,地跨亚非两大洲,大部分国土处在沙漠之中,降水稀少。我们去时已是11月上旬,气候仍然干燥炎热。在开罗机场,接待我们的埃及导游是来自亚历山大市的小伙子。他告诉我们,他曾在开罗大学学习中文四年,还 Last fall, at the invitation of my old classmates, I took part in the journey to Egypt. We take the Turkish flight, after l3 hours of flight, across thousands of miles, finally at 9 am local time to reach the Egyptian capital of Cairo. Egypt is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, occupying the two continents across Asia and Africa. Most of the territory is in the desert with few rainfall. The weather is still hot and dry when we are already in early November. At Cairo Airport, the Egyptian tour guide who hosted us was a young man from Alexandria. He told us that he had studied Chinese for four years at Cairo University