Ahmad Mohamad Isa, who has 20 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren, told Malay-language newspaper Utusan Malaysia earlier this week that he wanted company and a wife to take care of him.

不久前，已有20名孙辈和40名曾孙辈的伊萨主动和当地媒体《马来西亚使者报》联系，希望通过该报找到一位“老伴儿”来陪伴并照顾他。

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A member of the Bajau ethnic group, a Malay people who have lived at sea for centuries, plying a tract of ocean between the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

巴夭族几世纪以来都生活在海洋上，在菲律宾，马来西亚和印度尼西亚的大片海洋区域上来来往往。

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The capital and largest city of Malaysia, on the southwest Malay Peninsula northwest of Singapore.

吉隆坡马来西亚的首都和最大城市，位于马来半岛的西南部、新加坡西北。

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The paradox of Dr Mahathir's career is that his determination to favour Malaysia's ethnic-Malay majority is matched by what seems to be an extraordinarily condescending attitude to that group.

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Its acid-bright houses are home to the city's Cape Malay community - descendants of people from India, Malaysia and other South East Asian countries who settled the area as early as the 17th century - and the cuisine is a spicy, aromatic, and sometimes strange, mix of Asian, European and Mediterranean flavours.

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