有一个人说，伊拉克人是“一群不守规矩的shirugi（俚语，指愚笨的沼地阿拉伯人），需要棒压统治，需要一名强势之人来管住他们。”
Iraqis, says one, are “an unruly mass of shirugi—slang for thick-headed Marsh Arabs—who need the rule of the rod, a strongman, to control them.”
斯台普顿似乎知道我在想些什么，于是便说道：“您可能认为这儿要住人的话偏僻和奇特了些，可是这些沼地相当有趣，我们在这儿过得也很快活。”
Stapleton seemed to know what I was thinking, and said: 'You may think this a lonely, strange place to live, but the moors are very interesting, and we enjoy it here.
在沼地里走了好几英里才到，那个地方十分荒凉凄惨，很可能使人触景生情，编出那个故事来。
It was an excursion of some miles across the moor to a place which is so dismal that it might have suggested the story.
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