国家地理 伊朗的波斯游牧民为什么逐渐消失(5)

On the edge of Lali town, a place where many former Bakhtiari nomads¹ end up in simple dwellings², Mehdi Ghafari and his friend Aidi Shams³ shared a water pipe. The sun was setting as they reminisced about their past as nomads. Their wives are happier now, they admitted, and their children go to school. "There was no way but to adjust," Ghafari said.

拉利镇边上是从前许多巴赫蒂亚里游牧民最后简陋居住的一个地方，迈赫迪·加法里和他的朋友艾迪·夏姆斯共用一个水龙头。太阳就要落山的时候，他们回忆起了过去游牧的时光，他们承认他们的妻子现在更快乐，他们的孩子也在上学，迈赫迪说：“没有办法，只好适应。”

One of the last on the mountain, Nejat Ghanbari, the 76-year-old husband of Bibi Naz, insisted that nomads stem from the pre-Islamic Iranian kings.

比比·纳兹76岁的丈夫内扎特·甘巴里是最后在山上的人之一，他坚持认为游牧民起源于比伊斯兰教还早的伊朗国王。

"We are descendants of the great Kourosh Kabir," he said, meaning the legendary⁴ Persian king Cyrus the Great, who ruled a world empire around 550 B.C. Now he and his wife are the last. "And when we die, this will be the end of us. It makes me sad to realize this."

他说：“我们是伟大的克罗什·卡比尔的后代，到我们死的时候，这就是我们的终点。意识到这一点使我很难过。”他指的是传说中的波斯国王居鲁士大帝，大约在公元前550统治一个世界级帝国，而现在他和妻子是最后的一代。

1 nomads   

n.游牧部落的一员( nomad的名词复数 )；流浪者；游牧生活；流浪生活

参考例句：

• For ten years she dwelled among the nomads of North America. 她在北美游牧民中生活了十年。
• Nomads have inhabited this region for thousands of years. 游牧民族在这地区居住已有数千年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 dwellings   

n.住处，处所( dwelling的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The development will consist of 66 dwellings and a number of offices. 新建楼区将由66栋住房和一些办公用房组成。
• The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down. 过去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 shams   

假象( sham的名词复数 )； 假货； 虚假的行为（或感情、言语等）； 假装…的人

参考例句：

• Are those real diamonds or only shams? 那些是真钻石还是赝品？
• Tear away their veil of shams! 撕开他们的假面具吧！

4 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。