Mumbai today really is a place where you can see Rolls-Royces bumping along pot-holed streets past naked children, in the shadow of billionaires’ personal skyscrapers.

孟买是一个亿万富豪摩天大楼阴影中的城市，你真的可以看到劳斯莱斯颠簸在破破烂烂的街道上，从衣不蔽体的小孩身边开过。

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Though he spoke of the past, I suspected his mind was on the future, my future, and the long shadow this night would cast over it.

虽然他的语气是过去式，我怀疑他当时想到的是将来，我的将来。在那个晚上，长长的阴影凝固在我整个人生里。

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Finally I still not all the past, or in the sea in search of your shadow.

终于我还是放不下以往的一切，还是在沧海桑田里寻找着你的影子。

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But a shadow of the past reappears, and the girl has her own ghosts.

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