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"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 country, 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，他們才是這個國家真正的主宰。我們的錢都進了他們的腰包。銀行、財政-一切都被他們控制住了。"
"But", I said, "isn't it a fact that the average Jew is a labourer working for about a penny an hour?"
"可是，"我說道，"到多數普通猶太人不也是為了一點微薄的工錢而辛勤勞作的苦力嗎?"
"Ah, that's only for show! They're all money lenders really. They're cunning, the Jews."
"噢!那不過是做出樣子來給人看的。事實上他們都是些放債獲利的富豪。這些猶太人就是鬼得很。"
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 themselves a square meal. 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成巫婆給活活燒死，然而事實上她們就連為自己變出一頓象樣飯菜的巫術都沒有。
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 northern Europe, when you see 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 don't even see him. I have noticed this again and again. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings. It takes 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，白皮膚總是比較顯眼的。在北歐，若是發現田里有一個工人在耕地，你多半會再看他一眼。而在一個熱帶國家，直布羅陀以南或蘇伊士運河以東的任何一個地方，你就可能看不到田里耕作的人。這種情形我已經注意到多次了。在熱帶的景色總，萬物皆可一目了然，惟獨看不見人。那干巴巴的土壤、仙人掌、棕櫚樹和遠方的山嶺都可以盡收眼底，但那在地理耕作的農夫卻往往每人看見。他們的膚色就和地里的土壤顏色一樣，而且遠不及土壤中看。
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?
正因如此，貧窮至極的亞非國家反倒成了旅游觀光的勝地。沒有誰會有興趣到本地的貧困地區去作依次毫無價值的旅行。但在那些居住著褐色皮膚的人的地方，他們的貧困卻根本沒有人能注意大批。摩洛哥對于一個法國人來說意味著什么呢?無非是一個能買到橘子圓或者謀取一份政府差使的地方。對于一個英國人呢?
