那时距离尼尔森•曼德拉上台,并结束种族隔离只有3年。当我同主人共进晚餐时,他们使用铃铛来使唤管家。在晚饭后,男女相互分开而男人们开始抽雪茄。当时我想,幸好我读过简•奥斯汀的书否则我就不知道发生了什么。(笑声)
But the next day I went to Soweto, the poor township southwest of Johannesburg, that had been the center of the anti-apartheid movement. It was a short distance from the city into the township, but the entry was sudden, jarring and harsh.
但在第二天我去了索韦托,约翰内斯堡西南的一个贫穷小镇,那里曾经是反种族隔离的中心。尽管从约翰内斯堡到索韦托路程不长,但从进入索韦托的那一刻起,一切都令人无比震惊。
I passed into a world completely unlike the one I came from. My visit to Soweto became an early lesson in how naive I was. Microsoft was donating computers and software to a community center there. The kind of thing we did in the United States.
我觉得我来到了一个和我所来自的地方截然不同的世界。索韦托之行让我很早便意识到自己竟是如此天真。微软向那里的一个社区中心捐赠计算机和软件。和我们在美国所做的一切相同。
But it became clear to me, very quickly, that this was not the United States.
但是我很快明白了,这里并不是美国。
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