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。
Ethnic Composition: a mixture of Sinhalese, Dravidian, Arab and Black.
民族： （斯里兰卡）僧伽罗人、 （印度的）达罗毗荼人、阿拉伯人和黑人的混合民族。
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。
Both candidates are Sinhalese nationalists; neither seems keen on national reconciliation.
这两位候选人均是僧伽罗民族主义，也似乎都不热衷于民族和解。
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。
In the evening in Paranattahal, Sinhalese soldiers and former Tamil refugees play a good-humoured game of cricket. Here they seem to get on well.
在Paranattahal的晚上，僧伽罗的战士和曾经的泰米尔难民一起打了一场非常开心的板球赛，在这里，他们看上去相处的很好。
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。
The conflict intensified in July, after the Tigers closed a dam in Trincomalee, thereby denying water to 30, 000 farmers, mostly of the Sinhalese majority.
7月，“猛虎”组织关闭了亭可马里的一座水坝，拒绝向3万农民供水，其中主要是占人口多数的僧伽罗人（Sinhalese），此后，冲突加剧了。
The sri lankan cabinet has abolished the tamil version of the country's national anthem saying it must be sung now only in the language of the sinhalese majority.
斯里兰卡内阁已取消了该国的泰米尔语版国歌，并且表示现在这首歌曲必须使用僧伽罗语来演唱。
Like others clambering on the Jaffna bus this week, Mr Chandran was happy that mobility between the mainly Sinhalese south and the mostly Tamil north is increasing.
像本周其他爬上开往贾夫纳的汽车的人一样，程德先生对于连接南部僧伽罗和北部泰米尔的联系正在加强而感到高兴。
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。
His people, confined in the end to a beach in north-eastern Sri Lanka and shelled by the Sinhalese army, could not get away so easily from the mayhem Prabhakaran had drawn them into.
他的子民被僧伽罗人的炮火围困在斯里兰卡东北角的海滩上。这些人，绝难轻易摆脱普拉巴卡兰为他们刻画的炮灰命运。
In Sri Lanka's Sinhalese-dominated south, the defeat of the ltte-a brutal organisation that had controlled roughly a quarter of the country at its peak-was greeted by bursts of firecrackers.
由僧伽罗人主导的斯里兰卡南部地区，猛虎组织遭到溃败，大家通过放烟火来庆祝。猛虎组织是一个血腥的组织，在其顶峰将尽控制斯里兰卡的四分之一。
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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