Unit 2 Marrakech
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned construction site.
2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals.
3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.
They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.
4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.
Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.
5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.
Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.
6. …every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.
Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford. 7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. However, a white -skinned European is always quite noticeable. 8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings.
If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.
9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.
No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas. 10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking
struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil．
11．She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.
She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community, that she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．
12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. People with brown skins are almost invisible．
13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms…
The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies． 14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers 15．Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.
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