Marrakech-中英對(duì)照翻譯

1、Mar r akech-中英對(duì)照翻譯o o-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One 1第二課:Marrakech馬拉喀什見(jiàn)聞1 As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later. 一具尸體抬過(guò)，成群的蒼蠅從飯館的餐桌上嗡嗡而起追逐過(guò)去，但幾分鐘過(guò)后 又飛了回來(lái)。2 The little crowd of mourners all men and boys, n

2、o women threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, walling a short chant over and over again. What really appeals to the flies is that the corpses here are never put into coffins, they are merely wrapped in a piece of rag and carried on

3、 a rough wooden bier on the shoulders of four friends. When the friends get to the burying-ground they hack an oblong hole a foot or two deep, dump the body in it and fling over it a littie of the dried-up, lumpy earth, which is like broken brick. No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any k

4、ind. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. After a month or two no one can even be certain where his own relatives are buried.一支人數(shù)不多的送葬隊(duì)伍一其中老少盡皆男性，沒(méi)有一個(gè)女的沿著集貿(mào) 市場(chǎng)，從一堆堆石榴攤子以及出租汽車(chē)和駱駝中間擠道而行，一邊走著一邊悲 痛地重復(fù)著一支短促的哀歌。蒼蠅之所以群起追逐是因?yàn)樵谶@個(gè)地方死人的尸 首從不裝進(jìn)棺木，只是用一塊破布裹著放在

5、一個(gè)草草做成的木頭架子上，有四 個(gè)朋友抬著送葬。朋友們到了安葬場(chǎng)后，便在地上挖出一個(gè)一二英尺深的長(zhǎng)方 形坑，將尸首往坑里一倒。再扔一些像碎磚頭一樣的干土塊。不立墓碑，不留 姓名，什么識(shí)別標(biāo)志都沒(méi)有。墳場(chǎng)只不過(guò)是一片土丘林立的荒野，恰似一片已 廢棄不用的建筑場(chǎng)地。一兩個(gè)月過(guò)后，就誰(shuí)也說(shuō)不準(zhǔn)自己的親人葬于何處了。3 When you walk through a town like this two hundred thousand inhabitants of whom at least twenty thousand own literally nothing except the rags

6、they stand up in when you see how the people live, and st訂1 more how easily they die, it is always difficult to believe that you are walking among human beings. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact. The people have brown facesbesides, there are so many of them! Are they really

7、the same flesh as your self Do they even have names Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody

8、notices that they are gone And even the graves themselves soon fade back into the soil. Sometimes, out for a walk as you break your way through the prickly pear, you notice that it is rather bumpy underfoot, and only a certain regularity in the bumps tells you that you are walking over skeletons.當(dāng)你穿

9、行在這樣的城鎮(zhèn)一其居民20萬(wàn)中至少有2萬(wàn)是除開(kāi)一身聊以蔽體的 破衣?tīng)€衫之外完全一無(wú)所有當(dāng)你看到那些人是如何生活，又如何輕易地死 去時(shí)，你永遠(yuǎn)難以相信自己是行走在人類(lèi)之中。實(shí)際上，這是所有的殖民帝國(guó) 賴(lài)以建立的基礎(chǔ)。這里的人都有一張褐色的臉，而且，人數(shù)如此之多！他們真 的和你一樣同屬人類(lèi)嗎難道他們也會(huì)有名有姓嗎也許他們只是像彼此之間難以 區(qū)分的蜜蜂或珊瑚蟲(chóng)一樣的東西。誰(shuí)也不會(huì)注意到他們的離去。就是那些小墳 丘本身也過(guò)不了很久便會(huì)變成平地。有時(shí)當(dāng)你外出散步，穿過(guò)仙人掌叢時(shí)，你 會(huì)感覺(jué)到地上有些絆腳的東西，只有這些有規(guī)則的突起的土包才會(huì)告訴你，你 正踩在死人骷髏上。4 I was feeding o

10、ne of the gazelles in the public gardens.我正在公園里給其中一只瞪羚喂食。5 Gazelles are almost the only animals that look good to eat when they are still alive, in fact, one can hardly look at their hindquarters without thinking of a mint sauce The gazelle I was feeding seemed to know that this thought was in my mi

11、nd, for though it took the piece of bread I was holding out it obviously did not like me. It nibbled nibbled rapidly at the bread, then lowered its head and tried to butt me, then took another nibble and then butted again. Probably its idea was that if it could drive me away the bread would somehow

12、remain hanging in mid-air.動(dòng)物中也恐怕只有瞪羚還活著時(shí)就讓人覺(jué)得是美味佳肴。事實(shí)上，人們只要看 到它們那兩條后腿就會(huì)聯(lián)想到薄荷醬。我現(xiàn)在喂著的這只瞪羚好象已經(jīng)看透了 我的心思。它雖然叼走了我拿在手上的一塊面包，但顯然不喜歡我這個(gè)人。它 一面啃食著面包，一面頭一低向我頂過(guò)來(lái)，再啃一下面包又頂過(guò)來(lái)一次。它大 概還因?yàn)榘盐亿s開(kāi)之后那塊面包仍會(huì)懸在空中。6 An Arab navvy working on the path nearby lowered his heavy hoe and sidled slowly towards us. He looked from the

13、 gazelle to the bread and from the bread to the gazelle, with a sort of quiet amazement, as though he had never seen anything quite like this before. Finally he said shyly in French: 1 could eat some of that bread一個(gè)正在附近小道上干活的阿拉伯挖土工放下笨重的鋤頭，羞怯地側(cè)著身子慢 慢朝我們走過(guò)來(lái)。他把目光從瞪羚身上移向面包，又從面包轉(zhuǎn)回到瞪羚身上， 帶著一點(diǎn)驚訝的神色，似乎以前從未見(jiàn)

14、過(guò)這種情景。終于，他怯生生的用法語(yǔ) 說(shuō)道：“那面包讓我吃一點(diǎn)吧?！? I tore off a piece and he st owed it get efully in some secre t place under his rags. This man is an employee of the municipality.我撕下一塊面包，他感激地把面包放進(jìn)破衣裳貼身的地方。這人是市政當(dāng)局的 雇工。8 When you go through the Jewish Quarters you gather some idea of what the medieval ghettoes were

15、 probably like. Under their Moorish Moorish rulers the Jews were only allowed to own land in certainrestrieted areas, and after centuries of this kind of treatment they have ceased to bother about overcrowding. Many of the streets are a good deal less than six feet wide, the houses are completely wi

16、ndowless, and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. Down the centre of the street there is generally running a little river of urine. 當(dāng)你走過(guò)這兒的猶太人聚居區(qū)時(shí)，你就會(huì)知道中世紀(jì)猶太人區(qū)大概是個(gè)什么樣 子。在摩爾人的統(tǒng)治下，猶太人只能在劃定的一些地區(qū)內(nèi)保有土地。受這樣的 待遇經(jīng)過(guò)了好幾個(gè)世紀(jì)后，他們已經(jīng)不再為擁擠不堪而煩擾了。這兒很多街道 的寬度遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不足六英尺，房屋根

17、本沒(méi)有窗戶(hù)，眼睛紅腫的孩子隨處可見(jiàn)，多的 像一群群蒼蠅，數(shù)也數(shù)不清。街上往往是尿流成河。9 In the bazaar huge families of Jews, all dressed in the long black robe and little black skull-cap, are working in dark fly- infested booths that look like caves. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed

18、. He works the lathe with a bow in his right hand and guides the chisel with his left foot， and thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape. At his side his grandson, aged six， is already starting on the simpler parts of the job.在集市上，一大家一大家的猶太人，全都身著黑色長(zhǎng)袍，頭戴黑色便

19、帽，在看 起來(lái)像洞宜一般陰暗無(wú)光，蒼蠅麋集的攤篷里干活。一個(gè)木匠兩腳交叉坐在一 架老掉牙的車(chē)床旁，正以飛快的速度旋制椅子腿。他右手握弓開(kāi)動(dòng)車(chē)床，左腳 引動(dòng)旋刀。由于長(zhǎng)期保持這種姿勢(shì)，左腳已經(jīng)彎翹變形了。他的一個(gè)年僅六歲 的小孫子竟也在一旁開(kāi)始幫著干一些簡(jiǎn)單的活計(jì)了。10 I was just passing the coppersmiths, booths when somebody noticed that I was lighting a cigarette. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied ru

20、sh of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamouring for a cigarette. Even a blind man somewhere at the back of one of the booths heard a rximour of cigarettes and came crawling out, groping in the air with his hand. In about a minute I had used up the whole packet. Non

21、e of these people, I suppose, works less than twelve hours a day, and every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.我正要走過(guò)一個(gè)銅匠鋪?zhàn)訒r(shí)，突然有人發(fā)現(xiàn)我點(diǎn)著一支香煙。這一下子那些猶 太人從四面八方的一個(gè)個(gè)黑洞窟里發(fā)瘋似地圍上來(lái)，其中有很多白胡子老漢， 都吵著要討支煙抽O甚至連一個(gè)盲人聽(tīng)到這討煙的吵嚷聲也從一個(gè)攤篷后面爬 出來(lái)。伸手在空中亂摸。一分鐘光景,我那一包香煙全分完了。我想這些人中 沒(méi)有誰(shuí)會(huì)每天工作少于12個(gè)小時(shí)

22、，可是他們個(gè)個(gè)都把一支香煙看成是一件十 分難得的奢侈品。11 As the Jews live in self-contained communities they follow the same trades as the Arabs, except for agriculture. Fruit sellers,potters, silversmiths, blacksmiths, butchers, leather-workeirs, tailors, water-carriers, beggars, porters whichever way you look you see nothi

23、ng but Jews As a matter of fact there are thirteen thousand of them, all living in the space of a few acres A good job Hitler wasnt here. Perhaps he was on his way, however You hear the usual dark rumours about Jews, not only from the Arabs but from the poorer Europeans猶太人生活在一個(gè)自給自足的社會(huì)里，他們從事阿拉伯人所從事的行

24、業(yè)，只是 沒(méi)有農(nóng)業(yè)。他們中有賣(mài)水果的，有陶工、銀匠.鐵匠、屠夫、皮匠、裁縫.運(yùn) 水工，還有乞丐、腳夫放眼四顧，到處是猶太人。事實(shí)上，在這不過(guò)幾英 畝的空間內(nèi)居住著的猶太人就足足有一萬(wàn)三千之多。也算這些猶太人好運(yùn)氣， 希特勒未曾光顧這里。不過(guò)，他也許曾經(jīng)準(zhǔn)備來(lái)的。你常聽(tīng)到的有關(guān)猶太人的 風(fēng)言風(fēng)語(yǔ)（不利傳言）,不僅可以從阿拉伯人那里聽(tīng)到，而且還可以從較窮的 歐洲人那里聽(tīng)到。12 Yes mon vieux, they took my job away from me and gave it to a Jew. The Jews! They re the real rulers of this co

25、untry, you know. They ve got all the money. They control the banks, finance everything“我的老兄啊，他們把我的飯碗奪走給了猶太人。想必你也知道這些猶太人 吧，他們才是這個(gè)國(guó)家真正的主宰。我們的錢(qián)都進(jìn)了他們的腰包。銀行.財(cái)政 切都被他們控制住了。”13 But, I said, isn t it a fact that the average Jew is a labourer working for about a penny an hour“可是，”我說(shuō)道，“大多數(shù)普通猶太人不也是為了一點(diǎn)微薄的工錢(qián)而辛勤勞

26、 作的苦力嗎”14 Ah, that，s only for show! They re all money lenders really. They， re cunning, the Jews“噢！那不過(guò)是做出樣子來(lái)給人看的（做秀）。事實(shí)上他們都是些放債獲利的 富豪。這些猶太人就是鬼得很?！?5 In just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get

27、themselves a square meal.與此恰恰相似的是，幾百年前，常常也有些苦命的老太婆被當(dāng)成巫婆給活活燒 死，然而事實(shí)上她們就連為自己變出一頓象樣飯菜的巫術(shù)都沒(méi)有。16 All people who work with their hands are partly invisible， and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. In northem Europe, when you see

28、 a labourer ploughing a field, you probably give him a second glance. In a hot country, anywhere south of Gibraltar or east of Suez, the chances are that you dont even see hint I have noticed this again and again. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings. It takes

29、 in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear， the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch. He is the same colour as the earth, and a great deal less interesting to look at.所有靠自己的雙手干活的人一般都有點(diǎn)不太引人注目，他們所干的活兒越是重 要，就越不為人所注目。不過(guò)，白皮膚總是比較顯眼的。在北歐，若是發(fā)現(xiàn)田 里有一個(gè)工人在耕地，你多半會(huì)

30、再看他一眼。而在一個(gè)熱帶國(guó)家，直布羅陀以 南或蘇伊士運(yùn)河以東的任何一個(gè)地方，你就可能看不到田里耕作的人。我一次 又一次地注意到了這個(gè)情形。在熱帶地區(qū)，一切自然景色可以盡收眼底，惟獨(dú) 看不見(jiàn)人。人們可以看到干巴的土地、仙人掌、棕稠樹(shù)，還有遠(yuǎn)處的群山，但 往往遺漏了在地里鋤地的農(nóng)夫。他的膚色和土壤的顏色一樣，卻遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不及土壤 中看。17 It is only because of this that the starved countries of Asia and Africa are accepted as tourist resorts. No one would think of runni

31、ng cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. But where the human beings have brown skins their poverty is simply not noticed. What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman An orange grove or a job in Government service. Or to an Englishman Camels, castles, palm trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays, and bandi

32、ts. One could probably live there for years without noticing that for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.正因如此，貧困潦倒的亞非國(guó)家倒成了旅游勝地。沒(méi)有人會(huì)想組織游客去貧民 窟去旅游，盡管費(fèi)用低廉。但在居住著棕色皮膚的人的地方，他們的貧困卻完 全無(wú)人注意。摩洛哥對(duì)于一個(gè)法國(guó)人來(lái)說(shuō)意味著什么呢?zé)o非是一個(gè)能買(mǎi)到

33、橘園 或者謀取一份政府差使的地方。對(duì)于一個(gè)英國(guó)人呢不過(guò)是駱駝、城堡.棕桐 樹(shù).外籍兵團(tuán).黃銅盤(pán)子和匪徒等富于浪漫色彩的字眼而已。就算在那兒居住 多年的人們也未曾注意到，對(duì)于當(dāng)?shù)匕俜种攀木用穸?，生活是一?chǎng)為了 從貧瘠的土地上榨出一點(diǎn)食物而進(jìn)行的永無(wú)停息、艱苦卓絕的抗?fàn)帯?8 Most of Morocco is so desolate that no wild animal bigger than a hare can live on it. Huge areas which were once covered with forest have turned into a treeless

34、 waste where the soil is exactly like broken-up brick. Nevertheless a good deal of it is cultivated, with frightful labour. Everything is done by hand. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capitai Ls work their way slowly across the fields, tearing up the prickly weeds with their hands, an

35、d the peasant gathering lucerne for fodder pulls it up stalk by stalk instead of reaping it, thus saving an inch or two on each stalk. The plough is a wretched wooden thing, so frail that one can easily carry it on ones shoulder, and fitted underneath with a rough iron spike which stirs the soil to

36、a depth of about four inches. This is as much as the strength of the animals is equal to. It is usual to plough with a cow and a donkey yoked together. Two donkeys would not be quite strong enough, but on the other hand two cows would cost a little more to feed. The peasants possess no narrows, they

37、 merely plough the soil several times over in different directions, finally leaving it in rough furrows, after which the whole field has to be shaped with hoes into small oblong patches to conserve water. Except for a day or two after the rare rainstorms there is never enough water. A long the edges

38、 of the fields channels are hacked out to a depth of thirty or forty feet to get at the tiny trickles which run through the subsoil.摩洛哥的土地大部分荒無(wú)人煙，能夠在此存活的野生動(dòng)物還沒(méi)有野兔大。大片 曾經(jīng)有森林覆蓋著的土地已經(jīng)變成寸草不生的荒野，土壤如同碎磚頭一般。但 在人們的辛苦勞作下，相當(dāng)多的土地卻被開(kāi)墾了出來(lái)。所有的活兒都是手工完 成的。排著長(zhǎng)隊(duì)的女人們彎著腰，像倒著的大寫(xiě)字母L 一樣，一面沿著田地慢 慢往前走，一面用手拔掉帶刺的野草。農(nóng)民們?cè)卺娂匣ㄜ俎?/p>

39、作牲口飼料時(shí)， 不是用鐮刀割斷而是用手一株株地拔起，這樣收割苜蓿剩下的一兩英寸的根莖 就不至于浪費(fèi)。犁是木頭制的劣等品，完全不結(jié)實(shí)，一個(gè)人可以輕而易舉地扛 在肩上。犁的底部安著一個(gè)粗糙的鐵釘，它可以翻地約四英寸深。這和拉犁牲 口的力量相當(dāng)。通常是將一頭牛和一頭驢子套在一起拉犁。兩頭驢子的力量不 夠，另一方面，改用兩頭牛的話，所需的飼料又更多。農(nóng)民們沒(méi)有耕地用的 耙，他們只是順著不同的方向把地犁上幾遍，犁出一道道不平的壟溝，最后再 用鋤頭把整塊地整成一塊塊用來(lái)蓄水的長(zhǎng)方形小畦。除了罕見(jiàn)的暴風(fēng)雨過(guò)后的 一兩天之外，其余時(shí)間這里都缺水。農(nóng)民們沿著田邊挖出一道道深達(dá)30或40 英尺的溝渠，以便把下層土

40、壤的涓涓細(xì)流匯聚起來(lái)。19 Every afternoon a file of very old women passes down the road outside my house, each carrying a load of firewood. All of them are mummified with age and the sun, and all of them are tiny. It seems to be generally the case in primitive communities that the women, when they get beyond a

41、certain age, shrink to the size of children. One day poor creature who could not have been more than four feet tall crept past me under a vast load of wood. I stopped her and put a five-sou piece （ a little more than a farthing into her hand. She answered with a shrill wail, almost a scream, which w

42、as partly gratitude but mainly surprise. I suppose that from her point of view, by taking any notice of her, I seemed almost to be violating a law of nature. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. When a family is travelling it is quite usual to see a father an

43、d a grown-up son riding ahead on donkeys, and an old woman following on foot, carrying the baggage.每天下午都會(huì)有一隊(duì)年老的婦人背著柴火，從我家門(mén)口的那條路走過(guò)。她們都 因?yàn)槟昙o(jì)和日曬的緣故變得如木乃伊那般干癟，個(gè)個(gè)身材瘦小。在原始社會(huì)， 通常婦女們到達(dá)一定年齡后，身材會(huì)縮成孩子般大小。有一天，一個(gè)不超過(guò)四 英尺高的可憐家伙背著重重的木頭，從我面前緩緩走過(guò)。我攔住了她，往她手 中塞了一個(gè)面值五個(gè)蘇的錢(qián)幣（約多于四分之一便士） O她的反應(yīng)是一聲近乎尖 叫的刺耳哭喊，這喊叫部分是出于感激，但多半是詫異

44、。我想，在她看來(lái)，我 這樣注意到她，幾乎是違反了自然規(guī)律。她接受了自己既是老婦人，也是馱畜 的社會(huì)地位。每當(dāng)一家人四處遠(yuǎn)行時(shí)，通常可以看到父親和已成年的兒子騎著 驢子走在前面，而一位老婦人則背著行囊步行跟在后面。20 But whdt is strange about these people is their invisibility. For several weeks, always at about the same time of day, the file of old women had hobbled past the house with their firewood, an

45、d though they had registered themselves on my eyeballs I cannot truly say that I had seen thent Firewood was passing that was how I saw it. It was only that one day I happened to be walking behind them, and the curious up-and-down motion of a load of wood drew my attention to the human being beneath

46、 it. Then for the first time I noticed the poor old earth-colored bodies, bodies reduced to bones and leathery skin, bent double under the crushing weight. Yet I suppose I had not been five minutes on Moroccein soil before I noticed the overloading of the donkeys and was infuriated by it. There is n

47、o question that the donkeys are damnably treated. The Moroccan donkey is hardly bigger than a St. Bernard dog, it carries a load which in the British Army would be considered too much for a fifteen-hands mule, and very often its packsaddle is not taken off its back for weeks together. But what is pe

48、culiarly pitiful is that it is the most willing creature on earth, it follows its master like a dog and does not need either bridle or halter. After a dozen years of devoted work it suddenly drops dead, whereupon its master tips it into the ditch and the village dogs have torn its guts out before it

49、 is cold. 然而這些人的奇特之處就在于他們無(wú)影無(wú)形。幾個(gè)星期以來(lái)，每天幾乎在同一 個(gè)時(shí)段，都會(huì)有一隊(duì)老婦人背著柴火在我房前蹣跚而過(guò)。盡管這一幕已經(jīng)映人 了我的眼簾，但仍然不能說(shuō)我果真看到了她們。我所目睹到的只是成捆的柴火 在向前蹣跚而行。直到那一天我碰巧走在她們后面的時(shí)候，我看到一捆柴火很 奇怪地時(shí)上時(shí)下，這才讓我注意到原來(lái)下面還有人。我這才第一次注意到這些 可憐的 老婦人的土色軀體，一些瘦得只剩皮包骨頭、在重壓之下彎曲變形的 軀體。但是我覺(jué)得我來(lái)到摩洛哥土地還不到五分鐘就己經(jīng)注意到驢子的負(fù)荷過(guò) 重，并為此頗感憤怒。毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，這兒的驢子受到了虐待。摩洛哥的驢子幾乎 和圣伯納犬一樣大小，

50、但它承受的負(fù)荷在英國(guó)軍隊(duì)里讓一頭高約一點(diǎn)五米的騾 子馱都嫌重，而且，它身上的馱鞍經(jīng)常一連幾個(gè)星期都不卸下。但是，尤其讓 人覺(jué)得可悲的是，摩洛哥驢子是地球上最溫順的動(dòng)物。不需要安上籠頭或者韁 繩，它就如同一條狗一樣聽(tīng)從主人的吩咐。拼命工作十幾年后，它便倒下猝 死，這時(shí)主人便把它丟進(jìn)溝里，在尸體變冷之前，它的五臟六腑早已被村狗掏 出來(lái)吃掉。21 This kind of thing makes one s blood boil, whereas on the whole the plight of the human beings does not. I am not connnenting, m

51、erely pointing to a fact. People with brown skins are next door to invisible Anyone can be sorry for the donkey with its galled back, but it is generally owing to some kind of accident if one even notices the old woman under her load of sticks.這類(lèi)事情令人義憤填膺，然而，一般而言，人的困境卻沒(méi)有引起同樣的反響。 我并不是在發(fā)表議論，而僅僅是在指出一個(gè)事實(shí)

52、。棕色人近乎于無(wú)形。人人都 會(huì)同情一頭脊背磨傷的驢子，但若要注意到柴火堆下的老婦人，只能是歸于某 種巧合。22 As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marchingsouthward a long, dusty column, infantry , screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron w

53、heels 白鸛展翅北飛時(shí)，黑人卻正行軍南下列長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的.滿(mǎn)面灰塵的行軍隊(duì)伍，步兵，炮兵，接著是人數(shù)更多的步兵，總共有四五千人，正靴聲霍霍，輪聲轆 轆地蜿蜒前進(jìn)。23 They were Senegalese, the blackest Negroes in Africa, so black that sometimes it is difficuIt to see whereabouts on their necks the hair begins. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach- me-down khaki uniforms, their

54、 feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood, and every tin hat seemed to be a couple of sizes too smal1 It was very hot and the men had marched a long way. They slumped under the weight of their packs and the curiously sensitive black faces were glistening with sweat他們是塞內(nèi)加爾人，是非洲膚色最黑的黑人

55、，黑得有時(shí)讓人難以看清他們脖頸 上的頭發(fā)從何而生。他們健美的身體上穿著舊的卡其布制服，腳上套著一雙看 上去像木塊似的靴子，頭上戴著一頂碼子過(guò)小的鋼盔。天氣非常炎熱，這些黑 人己經(jīng)走了很長(zhǎng)的一段路。他們疲憊不堪地背著沉重的行李，好奇敏感的臉頰 上汗水閃閃發(fā)光。24 As they went pasa tall, very young Negro turned and caught my eye. But the look he gave me was not in the least the kind of look you might expect. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive