徐霞客出生在一个富庶的家庭中。

Xu Xiake was born in a prosperous family.

受到父亲的影响，他喜欢地理、探险和游记之类的书籍。

Influenced by his father, he loved to read books about geography, adventure, traveling and so on.

这些书籍使他从小就热爱祖国的壮丽河山，立志要游遍名山大川。

These books developed his early love of the motherland’s magnificent scenery, and made him determined to travel over mountains and rivers.

徐霞客一生周游考察了十六个省，足迹几乎遍及全国。

Xu Xiake had visited sixteen provinces, leaving his footprints in nearly every corner of our country.

他在考察过程中，从来不盲目迷信书本上的结论。

He neither used books as the single guide for his travel, nor did accept conclusions given by books without thinking.

他发现前人研究的地理的确记载了许多不可靠的地方。

As a result, he finally discovered considerable inaccuracies occurring in the geographical notes written by predecessors.

为了进行细致的考察，他很少乘车坐船，几乎全靠双脚。

In order to get a detailed and truthful picture of the places he visited, he rarely traveled by carriage or boat, but almost all on foot. 作者：读书有三到我先到 https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv21111600/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0 出处：bilibili