thereby: in this way, by which 由于这一点 对应词 hereby 这里，兹
deny sb. Sth. 否认（剥夺）某人的...
Self-containment ：自我封闭
Go hand in hand: 结伴而行
正常 该句写为：It is argued that insularity and self-containment go hand in hand.
Continental: European （欧洲大陆）
Survived the flood
She survived her spouse by ten years. 她比她老伴多活十年。
Survive 同 stand up to
Characteristic 特色 特点
to build socialism with Chinese characteristics 建设有中国特色的社会主义
Mediterranean 地中海
As yet = however
that the traveller abroad thereby denies himself the opportunity of getting to know the people of the country visited. Insularity and self-containment, it is argued, go hand in hand. The opinion does not survive experience of a popular Continental camping place. holiday hotels tend to cater for one nationality of visitors especially, sometimes exclusively. Camping sites, by contrast, are highly cosmopolitan. Granted, a preponderance of Germans is a characteristic that. seems common to most Mediterranean sites; but as yet there is no overwhelmingly specialized patronage. ...