--------------------------------------------------------------------- 第 二 课 : Marrakech 马 拉 喀 什 见 闻 1 As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later
一 具 尸 体 抬 过 , 成 群 的 苍 蝇 从 饭 馆 的 餐 桌 上 嗡 嗡 而 起 追 逐 过 去 , 但 几 分 钟 过 后 又飞 了 回 来
2 The little crowd of mourners -- all men and boys, no women--threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, walling a short chant over and over again
What really appeals to the flies is that the corpses here are never put into coffins, they are merely wrapped in a piece of rag and carried on a rough wooden bier on the shoulders of four friends
When the friends get to the burying-ground they hack an oblong hole a foot or