The Sinhalese majority had paid no attention.
占国内人口多数的僧伽罗人却不为所动。
Most Sinhalese are Buddhist; most Tamils are Hindu.
大多数僧伽罗人是佛教徒；大多数泰米尔人是印度教徒。
They are also in the interests of the Sinhalese majority.
也符合多数派僧伽罗人的利益诉求。
The word Vesak itself is the Sinhalese language word for the Pali word "Visakha".
卫塞节这个词本身是巴利语的“卫塞迦”的僧伽罗语。
The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.
马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语，一种接近于僧伽罗语(斯里兰卡的语言)的印欧语言。
Both candidates are Sinhalese nationalists; neither seems likely to hurry towards the national reconciliation they have promised.
两位候选人都是僧伽罗民族主义者；两人看起来都不可能像他们承诺的那样—尽快促成民族和解。
Sri Lanka's almost wholly literate inhabitants, 75% of them Sinhalese and 12% Sri Lankan Tamils, share an understandable pride in their island.
斯里兰卡几乎所有识字的居民——75%是锡兰族人，12%是泰米尔·斯里兰卡人——共同拥有对这个岛屿的可被理解的自豪。
But that is how most local Tamils view the 600-odd ethnic Sinhalese who pitched up at the derelict railway station in the northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna last month.
这就是当地多数泰米尔人对上个月在斯里兰卡北部小镇贾夫纳的废弃火车站安顿下来的600多个僧伽罗人的看法。
Buddhism and a sophisticated system of irrigation became the pillars of classical Sinhalese civilization (200 BC-1200 AD) that flourished in the north-central part of the island.
佛教和先进的灌溉系统成为岛上北部中心古典僧伽罗文明(200BC- 1200AD)繁荣的支柱。
According to Maldivian legend, a Sinhalese prince named Koimalaa was stranded with his bride — daughter of the king of Sri Lanka — in a Maldivian lagoon and stayed on to rule as the first sultan.
根据马尔代夫的传说，从前，一个名叫Koimalaa的僧伽罗王子和他的新娘-斯里兰卡国王的女儿-被搁浅在马尔代夫的一个礁湖，无奈他们只能留在那里，至此成为了那里的第一代君王。
Whilst immersed in the atmosphere and bright colors of the culinary tradition of the Sinhalese, spices and other foods such as its famous Ceylon tea can be tasted, and also bought and taken home.
同时还可以沉浸在僧伽罗人烹饪传统的氛围里和明亮的色彩里。香料和其它食品，如可以品尝到其著名的锡兰茶，也可以买了带回家。
Whilst immersed in the atmosphere and bright colors of the culinary tradition of the Sinhalese, spices and other foods such as its famous Ceylon tea can be tasted, and also bought and taken home.
同时还可以沉浸在僧伽罗人烹饪传统的氛围里和明亮的色彩里。香料和其它食品，如可以品尝到其著名的锡兰茶，也可以买了带回家。
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