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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 crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chairlegs at lightning speed. 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，全都身著黑色長袍，頭戴黑色便帽，在看起來像洞窟一般陰暗無光，蒼蠅麋集的攤篷里干活。一個木匠兩腳交叉坐在一架老掉牙的車床旁，正以飛快的速度旋制椅子腿。他右手握弓開動車床，左腳引動旋刀。由于長期保持著種姿勢，左腳已經彎翹變形了。他的一個年僅六歲的小孫子竟也在一旁開始幫著干一些簡單的活計了。
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 rush 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 rumour of cigarettes and came crawling out, groping in the air with his hand. In about a minute I had used up the whole packet. None 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.
我正要走過一個銅匠鋪子時，突然有人發現我點著一支香煙。這一下子那些猶太人從四面八方的一個個黑洞窟里發瘋四地圍上來，其中有很多白胡子老漢，都吵著要討支煙抽。甚至連一個盲人聽到這討煙的吵嚷聲也從一個攤篷后面爬出來。伸手在空中亂摸。一分鐘光景，我那一包香煙全分完了。我想這些人一天的工時誰都不回少于十二小時，可是他們個個都把一支香煙看成是一見十分難得的奢侈品。
As the Jews live in self-contained communities they follow the same trades as the Arabs, except for agriculture. Fruitsellers, potters, silversmiths, blacksmiths, butchers, leather-workers, tailors, water-carriers, beggars, porters-whichever way you look you see nothing 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 Hitlet wasn't 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.
猶太人生活在一個自給自足的社會里，他們從事阿拉伯人所從事的行業，只是沒有農業。他們中有買水果的，有陶工、銀匠、鐵匠、屠夫、皮匠、裁縫、運水工，還有乞丐、腳夫--放眼四顧，到處是猶太人。事實上，在這不過幾英畝的空間內居住著的猶太人就足足有一萬三千之多。也算這些猶太人好運氣，希特勒未曾光顧這里。不過，他也許曾經準備來的。你常聽到的有關猶太人的風言風語，不僅可以從阿拉伯人那里聽到，而且還可以從較窮的歐洲人那里聽到。
