I stopped at my hotel foyer and enquired about a train ticket to Dunhuang in Gansu province — the next stop on my itinerary — as I knew tickets could sometimes be hard to obtain.

我在宾馆的休息厅歇了一下脚，打听了一下去甘肃省敦煌的火车票的事——这是我旅行路线的下一站——因为我知道有时车票很难买。