That old moan by W.C. Fields, the American funny man, echoes the more recent feelings of many a resident in Basra.

这是美国喜剧演员W.C. 费尔兹过去抱怨的话，现在却是大多数巴士拉居民最近的心声。

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Funny, to sit here in this red Hook dive appropriately named The Hook, just as his old man used to do when he retired to his old neighborhood in Brooklyn.

有趣，坐在这个Red Hook应该说The Hook更恰当的小酒吧里，就像过去老头子退休后去他布鲁克林的老邻居家时经常做的一样。

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It is funny that an 18-year-old lady should fall in love with a 70-year-old man.

一个18岁的姑娘竟会爱上一个70岁的老头真是滑稽可笑。

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Her unease lasted through the introductions of two elderly Russian couples, two elderly Chinese couples, three middle-aged Dominican couples, one handsome young Haitian man, one very tall, very old, and very loud Haitian woman with a funny name Oolna and one dark-skinned woman who spoke so fast and with such a heavy accent that nobody could understand what she said or where she came from.

NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena