One earns cash by sewing fancy beads on to cheap, plain saris.
其中一个赚钱的方式,就是把花俏的珠子缝在普通的廉价纱丽上。
At polling stations long segregated queues, with many women in their finest saris, waited patiently to vote.
在投票站,各式选民队伍排得长长的,很多女性裹上家中最漂亮的莎丽,耐心地等待投票。
By 10 o'clock the women have turned their hands variously to making pickles, embroidering saris or collecting rubbish.
十点以前,这些妇女已然开始做腌菜,在沙丽上刺绣或是收捡垃圾。
And young women, in particular, often tend to prefer cheaper, plainer saris—made by machines and decorated with garish glitter and beadwork.
况且,尤其是年轻的姑娘们,都会倾向选择价格低廉,样式简单的纱丽——这都是机器制成品,上面会镶着光彩夺目的珠饰。
Ladies come here to shop for exquisite saris and expensive jewellery.
女士们来这里选购华丽的印度纱丽和名贵的首饰。
These include carpets, shawls, waistbands, stitched garments, saris and so on.
陈列品包括地毯、披巾、腰带和纱丽服等。
A washerwoman hangs diaphanous saris to dry on the mortared walls of a house in India.
一位印度的洗衣妇悬挂透明的纱丽晒干在一间屋子的白灰墙壁上。
Women in saris make their way home balancing their purchases after shopping at the local market.
穿着纱丽的印度妇女在当地市场购物后正在回家的路上。
There are no swaggering “masters of the universe” in this group. Top female managers regularly wear saris and talk openly about their children and husbands.
相反的,那些高级的女性经理们,在公司里没有那种“宇宙之主”的趾高气昂,她们通常身穿沙丽服,公开谈论她们的孩子和丈夫。
Too often, though, for all their harrumphing about ghotala (Hindi for scams), voters are swayed during election campaigns by candidates’ gifts of rice, rupees, saris and television sets.
不过大多时候选民对ghotala(印地文的诈骗)只是嘟囔而已,因为在选举活动期间候选人会提供大米、卢比、莎丽服以及电视机作为礼物,选民会受到影响。
Too often, though, for all their harrumphing about ghotala (Hindi for scams), voters are swayed during election campaigns by candidates’ gifts of rice, rupees, saris and television sets.
不过大多时候选民对ghotala(印地文的诈骗)只是嘟囔而已,因为在选举活动期间候选人会提供大米、卢比、莎丽服以及电视机作为礼物,选民会受到影响。
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