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All this was just the polite way to begin a conversation— all except the words, “who is a good lad,” which his friends need not say unless they wanted to. So Sadoc was pleased. Nobody ever asked him how Kadijah, his wife, was, for that would have been as impolite as the other was proper. The Arabs never speak to each other of their women folks if they can possibly avoid it.
這一切只是開(kāi)始談話的禮貌方式——除了那幾個(gè)字，“是個(gè)好孩子，”這是他的朋友們不需要說(shuō)的，除非他們想說(shuō)。所以撒多克很高興。從來(lái)沒(méi)有人問(wèn)過(guò)他，他的妻子卡迪亞怎么樣，因?yàn)槟菢幼黾炔欢Y貌，也不恰當(dāng)。阿拉伯人盡量避免和婦女交談。
Abdul Aziz, being only a boy, was allowed to go into the neighbors’ houses. So he knew most of the women. Sometimes even, at the season of the olive crop, he worked with them. For in the village of Hammamet it is the women and the children who harvest the olives in the orchards outside the town.
阿卜杜勒·阿齊茲還是個(gè)孩子，他被允許進(jìn)入鄰居家。所以他認(rèn)識(shí)大部分的女人。有時(shí)甚至在橄欖收獲的季節(jié)，他也和他們一起工作。因?yàn)樵诠R麥特村，婦女和孩子們?cè)诔峭獾墓麍@里收割橄欖。
