Damp and bracingly cool this place doesn't fit your image of Sri Lanka the lush island nation-formerly known as ceylon-that hangs like a teardrop off the tip of southern India.

既有点潮湿，又有点令人心旷神怡的清凉。虽然这个地方并不符合你想象中斯里兰卡的形象，但这个郁郁葱葱的岛国——原来以锡兰闻名——就像一颗泪珠挂在印度南端一样。

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Damp and bracingly cool, this place doesn't fit your image of Sri Lanka, the lush island nation-formerly known as ceylon-that hangs like a teardrop off the tip of southern India.

既有点潮湿，又有点令人心旷神怡的清凉。虽然这个地方并不符合你想象中斯里兰卡的形象，但这个郁郁葱葱的岛国——原来以锡兰闻名——就像一颗泪珠挂在印度南端一样。

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The graphite is mined in Ceylon.

石墨开采自锡兰。

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The story unfolds in absorbing, convincingly re-created settings: Paris (including its notorious sewers), Cairo, Shanghai and Ceylon.

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For example, one setting in this book is Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, a major tea-growing region.

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For years after its post-World War II independence then-Ceylon tried outright socialism.

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