The last speaker was the white lady in the blue dress, who asked them to challenge any discriminatory laws or measures in every possible manner. Why should she speak like that? thought Karlie. She could go to the best bioscopes, and swim at the best beaches. Why, she was even more beautiful than Annatjie Lategan. They had warned him in Bietjiesvlei about coming to the city. He had seen the Skollies in District Six and knew what to expect there. Hanover Street held no terrors for him. But no one had told him about this. This was new, this set one's mind thinking, yet he felt it was true. She said one should challenge. He would challenge. He, Karlie, would astound old Lategan and Balie at the dairy farm. They could do what they liked to him after that. He would smile like those people in the newspaper.
最后發言的是那位身著藍色連衣裙的白人婦女，她號召大家用一切可能的方式挑戰任何歧視性的法律和措施。她為什么那樣說呢？卡里在想。她可以去最好的影院看電影，在最漂亮的海灘上游泳。她為什么那樣說呢？她比安娜特杰·雷特甘還要漂亮。在別吉斯烏雷，人們已經警告過他進城要小心。他在第六區也曾見到過黑人中的流氓，知道在這里會發生什么事情。漢諾威大街并不讓他感到恐懼。但沒有人告訴他這件事。新鮮，真叫人犯嘀咕，然而他覺得演講者說的沒錯。她說一個人應該挑戰，他要發出挑戰。他——卡里——將要讓老雷特甘和奶牛場的巴利大吃一驚。事后他們可以對他想怎么著就怎么著。而他會像報紙上的那些人一樣地微笑。
The meeting was almost over when Karlie threaded his way through the crowd. The words of the speakers were still milling through his head. It could never happen in Bietjiesvlei, he thought, or could it? The sudden screech of a car pulling to a hurried stop whirled him back to his senses. A white head was angrily thrust through the window. "Look where you're going, you black bastard!"
集會快要結束時，卡里慢慢穿過人群。演講者們的話仍然在他的腦子里打轉。那種事情在別吉斯烏雷絕對不會發生，不過也許會發生呢？他想著。一輛小汽車刺耳的剎車聲讓他迅速恢復了意識。一個白人非常氣憤地將頭伸出車窗。“看路啊，你這個黑雜種！”
Karlie stared dazedly at him. Surely this white man had never heard what the speakers had said. He could never have seen the white woman offering Nxeli a cigarette. Karlie could never imagine the white lady shouting those words at him. It would be best to catch a train and think these things over.
卡里驚愕地瞪著他。這個白人肯定沒有聽到過演講者們的那番話。他肯定沒有看到過那個白人婦女遞煙給恩克塞里。卡里想象不出那位白人婦女會這樣沖他喊叫。最好還是先趕上火車，再把發生的這一切好好想想吧。
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