His sister was ill, he would say. But he was still planning to make his trip next spring.

说自己的妹妹病了，没有去成。可他心里一直在计划着明年春天的旅行。

Liu was far from the only non-Chinese Taoist priest to make the trip to Wudang Mountain this spring.

刘并不是今年春天唯一一个去武当山的非华人道士。

Hey. I'm sorry to just spring a road trip on you like that.

嘿 抱歉 突然拉你去驱车旅行。

" I dwelled so much on my disappointment that it almost physically hurt, " Paris-based journalist Joelle Diderich told me recently, after canceling five trips last spring.

住在巴黎的记者乔埃乐·迪德里奇，光是去年春天就取消了五个行程，她跟我说：“我一直沉溺于失望当中，几乎连身体都真的痛起来了。”

The wild iris is as stubborn as the orange bloom is impatient. Norton and I make useless trips every spring to the River Styx, to find the buds ready but tight-shut week after week.

野鸢尾固执，橙花不耐烦。诺顿和我每年春天都会去冥河做无用的旅行，一周又一周地寻找已经成熟但紧闭的花蕾。