To read or to snooze would have been to fail to wave back at the hundreds of small, smiling faces. That, one felt, would be letting down the children of Laos. On the last day, one fellow passenger laughed delightedly as she showed me the two pages she had read of the 400-pagedoorstop she had been planning to finish.
如果在船上看书或者打盹,那就不能挥手回应那数百张微笑的小脸,如此一来,游客们会感觉辜负了那些老挝孩子们的好意。在旅行的最后一天,我的一位旅伴快乐地笑着给我看那本她原本准备在旅途中看完的书,那本400页的厚书她只看了开头的两页。
It was just another example of what makes this mountainous sliver of a countrysqueezed between its bigger, louder neighbors, Thailand, Vietnam, and Chinasuch a remarkable place to visit. Laotian people, whatever their age, are some of the loveliest I have ever encountered. Laotians today seem happy with what little they havetheirs is one of the poorest countries in the worldand largely unconcerned by the mucky business of making money, as well as many other aspects of modernity. This is the kind of country where most Lao women still wear the traditional tube skirt, together with a neatly tailored jacket, just as most Lao families still live in traditional wooden houses on stilts and work in the rice paddies.
虽然老挝这狭长的山地之国挤在那些引人注目的邻居们(泰国、越南和中国)当中,却精彩处处,那里孩子们的笑容只是其值得到访的理由之一。老挝人,无论其年龄大小,都是我见到过的最可爱的人。今天,老挝人看起来都满足于他们所拥有的一切,即使老挝是世界上最穷的国家之一,大多数老挝人不太关心钻营敛财之道,也不关心现代化的种种发展。就是这样一个国家,在这儿,大多数老挝妇女仍然穿着传统的筒裙和整洁而剪裁讲究的短上衣,同时,大多数老挝家庭仍住在传统的木头高脚屋里,在稻田里劳作。
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