高级英语2第三版 unit2 课文翻译+课后英译汉部分划线

Unit 2 Marrakech

马拉喀什见闻

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.

尸体被抬过去的时候，成群的苍蝇嗡嗡地飞离了餐馆的饭桌，尾随尸体去，几分钟后又嗡嗡地飞了回来。

2、The little crows of mourners – all me and boys, no women – threaded their way across the marker place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again. What really appeals to the flied is that the corpses here are never put into coffins; they are merely wrapped in a piece of ray 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 afoot 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.

一支人数不多的送葬队伍-其中老老小小全是男的，没有女人——挤过一堆堆的石榴，穿行在出租车和骆驼之间，迂回着穿过市场，嘴里还一遍遍地哀号着一支短促的悲歌。真正令苍蝇感兴趣的是这里的尸体从来都不装进棺材，而是只用一块破布裹着，放在一副粗糙的木制担架上，有死者的四位朋友抬去送葬。达到坟场后，朋友们首先挖出一块一两英尺深的长方形的坑，将尸体扔入坑中，再在上面丢一些像碎砖头一样的干土块。没有墓碑，没有留名，也没有任何身份标志，坟场只不过是一片巨大的如同一块废弃的建筑工地般土丘林立的荒原。一两个月之后，就谁也找不到自己亲人的坟墓之处了。

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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 they stand op in – when you see how the people live, and still 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 faces – besides, there are so many o them! Are they really the sane 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 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.

当你穿行于这样的城镇中——20 万居民中，至少有 2 万人除了一身勉强蔽体的破衣烂衫之外，一无所有——当你看到这些人是如何生活，又如何轻易地死去时，你总是很难相信自己是行走在人类之中。实际上，这是所有殖民帝国建立的基础。这里的人都有一张棕色的脸——而且，人数是如此之多！他们真的和你一样同属人类吗？难道他们也有名有姓吗？或者说他们像一群群蜜蜂或珊瑚虫一样，只是一种彼此无法区分的棕色东西吗？他们来到世上，受苦受累，忍饥挨饿的生活数年，然后被埋在一个个无名的小坟丘里。谁也不会注意到他们的离去。有时，当你外出散步穿过仙人掌丛时，你会注意到脚下的土地格外不平，只有那些隆起的包块有规律的出现时，你才意识到你正踩在死人的骷髅上。

4、I was feeding one of the gazelles in the public gardens.

在公园里，我正在给一只瞪羚喂食。

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