Lesson2The little crowd of mourners -- all men and boys, no 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 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 little of the dried-up, lumpy earth, which is like broken brick. No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind. 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.(翻译)一小队送葬者——所有送葬者均为男子——迂回穿行于集贸市场，从一堆堆石榴以及出租汽车和骆驼间挤道而行，一边走一边悲痛地重复着一支短促的哀歌。
四个朋友抬着一个薄薄的木制停尸架，上面放着一具破布包裹的尸体，苍蝇因而群起追逐。
这里的人去世后尸体从不入殓。
朋友们到了安葬场后，便在地上凿出一个一至两英尺深的长方形坑洞，将尸体往坑里一倒，再草草洒上一些像碎砖头一样的干土块。
他们既不立墓碑，不刻名字，也不作任何标记。
坟场只不过是一大片土丘林立的荒野，恰似废弃的建筑工地。
一两个月过后，谁也说不准亲人究竟葬于何处。
When you go through the Jewish Quarters you gather some idea of what the medieval ghettoes were probably like. Under their Moorish Moorishrulers the Jews were only allowed to own land in certain restricted 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 windowless, 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.当你走过这儿的犹太人聚居区时，你就会知道中世纪犹太人区大概是个什么样子。
在摩尔人的统治下，犹太人只能在划定的一些地区内保有土地。
受这样的待遇经过了好几个世纪后，他们已经不再为拥挤不堪而烦扰了。
这儿很多街道的宽度远远不足六英尺，房屋根本没有窗户，眼睛红肿的孩子随处可见，多的像一群群苍蝇，数也数不清。
街上往往是尿流成河。
It is only because of this that the starved countries of Asia and Africa are accepted as tourist resorts. No one would think of running 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 bandits. 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，贫穷至极的亚非国家反倒成了旅游观光的胜地。
没有谁会有兴趣到本地的贫困地区去作依次毫无价值的旅行。
但在那些居住着褐色皮肤的人的地方，他们的贫困却根本没有人能注意大批。
摩洛哥对于一个法国人来说意味着什么呢？无非是一个能买到橘子圆或者谋取一份政府差使的地方。
对于一个英国人呢？不过是骆驼、城堡、棕榈树、外籍兵团、黄铜盘子和匪徒等富于浪漫色彩的字眼而已。
就算是在那儿呆过多年的人也未必会注意得到，对于当地百分之九十的居民来说，现实生活只意味着永无休止、劳累至极的斗争，其目的是从贫瘠的土壤中费力地弄出点吃的来。
This kind of thing makes one's blood boil, whereas-- on the whole -- the plight of the human beings does not. I am not commenting, merely 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.这类事情真是令人义愤填膺。
然而，一般来说，人类的困境却没有引起同样的反响。
我并不是在发表议论，而仅仅是在陈述一个事实。
棕色人近乎于无形。
人人都会去同情一头脊背磨伤的驴子，但若要注意到柴火堆下的老妇人，只能归于某种巧合。
They were Senegalese, the blackest Negroes in Africa, so black that sometimes it is difficult to see whereabouts on their necks the hair begins. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms, their feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood, and every tin hat seemed to be a couple of sizes too small. 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.他们是塞内加尔人，是非洲肤色最黑的人——黑得简直难以看清他们颈项上的头发从何处生起。
他们健硕的身躯罩在旧的卡其布制服里面，脚上套着一双看上去像块木板似的靴子，每个人头上戴着的钢盔似乎都小了一两号。
天气正热,队伍已经走了很长一段路，士兵们都被沉重的包袱压得疲惫不堪，敏感得出奇的黑脸颊上汗水闪闪发光。
Lesson3Perhaps it is because of my up-bringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other's lives. They are companions, not intimates. The fact that their marriages may be on the rooks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into,each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.(翻译)或许是由于我从小经常光顾英国酒吧的缘故吧，我认为酒吧里的闲聊别有韵味。