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Laszlo Bogdan, mayor of Cserdi, died on July 14th, aged 46
拉斯洛·波格丹是切爾迪村村長，他于7月14日去世，享年46歲。
Along the walls of his office in Cserdi, a village of around 350 souls in the gentle hills of southern Hungary, Laszlo Bogdan strung several clothes lines. Pegged to them were hundreds of messages written to “Laci”, as they called him: “People are good!” “Our parents have work”. “We have a good mayor”. These were the voices of the villagers, who since his election as mayor in 2006 had seen their world transformed.
在位于匈牙利南部丘陵地帶的切爾迪村，有大約350名居民。拉斯洛·波格丹在他辦公室的墻上掛起了好幾根晾衣繩。上面掛著數百條寫給“洛齊”(他們這樣稱呼他)的留言：“人們都很好！“我們的父母有工作”。“我們有一個好村長”。這是村民們的聲音。自2006年他當選村長以來，村民們看到了他們的世界發生的變化。
Cserdi had once been strewn with rubble and dilapidated houses, with idle, jobless men brawling outside. Petty crime was rampant: up to 300 cases a year, with neighbouring villages terrorised. Now everything was orderly. The houses were neat, and many had gained bathrooms. Small parks had appeared. Out in the fields women worked with hoes, and men with spades, to plant potatoes or dig wells.
曾經，切爾迪到處是瓦礫和破舊的房屋，無所事事的失業者在外面喧嚷。輕微犯罪很猖獗：每年多達300起案件，鄰近的村莊也感到恐懼。現在一切都井然有序了。房子很整潔，很多都有浴室。小公園建成了。在田里，女人用鋤頭干活，男人用鐵鍬干活，種土豆或打井。
Four giant plastic greenhouses sheltered crops of peppers and tomatoes. In a good year the village could produce 160,000kg of quality vegetables, with the surplus going to the poor of the county. Officials from far and wide came to inspect this “Cserdi miracle”. But Mayor Laci, pacing up and down with his purple scarf knotted fashionably round his neck, was still dissatisfied. Was it really so special, so exotic, to see Gypsies working? He spoke as one, a proud Cigany (he hated “Roma”), who revelled in garish shirts that emphasised his Gypsyness, and delivered his vegetables in a red Zsiguli car with a swinging rosary of the sort only Gypsies drove.
四個巨大的塑料大棚庇護著辣椒和西紅柿的作物。豐年的時候，這個村子能生產16萬公斤優質蔬菜，富余的都給了郡里的窮人。四面八方的官員們都趕來視察這個“切爾迪奇跡”。但洛齊村長仍然不滿意，脖子上圍著時髦的紫色圍巾的他來回踱步。看到吉普賽人工作真的很特別，很有異國情調嗎？他像一個驕傲的羅姆人一樣說話(他討厭“Roma”)，他喜歡穿著彰顯他的吉普賽精神的花哨的襯衫，他用一輛紅色的Zsiguli轎車運送蔬菜，車上掛著一串搖曳的念珠。只有吉普賽人才開這種車。
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