去年4月初,笔者随旅游团来到津巴布韦和赞比亚交界处的维多利亚大瀑布。晴天丽日之下,30里开外就能看见瀑布上空水雾蒸腾,高达百米,如烟似云,生生不息。及至10里之外,更觉满耳龙吟虎啸,令人心头隐隐生出滚滚惊雷动地来的震撼。导游介绍说,维多利亚大瀑布在没有被冠以英国女王的名字之前,当地土著人把它叫做“雾雨咆哮”,至今在瀑布宾馆的门楣匾额上书写的还是这个名字。 In early April last year, I traveled with the tour group to Victoria Falls at the junction of Zimbabwe and Zambia. Sunny day under the sun, 30 miles away you can see the waterfall over the water vapor transpiration, as high as 100 meters, smoke like a cloud, endless. To 10 miles away, even more full of gurgling Tigers, people faintly give birth to the shock of shaking. The tour guide said Victoria Falls did not call it the name of the Queen of the United Kingdom until the aboriginal people called it a “fog roar” and so far it was written on the lintel plaque of the Falls Hotel.