卡车司机

Many sights along the road are unchanged after 40 years: the women carrying huge baskets on their heads, or bundles of logs, or drums of water; the broken-down lorries, one whose driver is asleep beneath the back axle, another whose sackclothed cargo has tumbled off and burst on the ground; the ox-carts, the bicycles, the wayside hawkers selling bananas, charcoal and sugarcane.

所有车辆的速度比步行快不了多少，艰难地通过斜坡和坑沟。40年后，沿路的许多景象依然如旧：妇女们头顶巨大的篮子、柴捆、水桶；抛锚的卡车，后轴轮下酣睡的司机；一辆满载卡车翻在路上，布袋包装的货物撒落一地；牛车、自行车，路边叫卖香蕉、木炭和甘蔗的小贩。

The truck houses a rococo theater where the male driver of the truck—in a grimy T-shirt, long blond wig, and chiffon scarf—performs cabaret-style on stage, in basso profundo and with full strobe lighting, eliciting a rapturous response from the solitary youth in the audience.

卡车里有一个洛可可影院，卡车的男司机——穿着脏T恤，戴着金色长假发、雪纺围巾——在舞台上表演歌舞，在闪光灯下用男低音歌唱，促使观众疯狂地回忆起那孤单的青年时光。

Illegal traders run a lucrative extortion racket, their bully boys jumping on the lorries as they arrive, threatening the driver and earning themselves $1.50 on every $20 sack of grain.

不法商贩趁机欺行霸市，牟取暴利。每当卡车抵达之后，他们雇佣的打手就跳上卡车，逼迫司机每袋20美元的粮食让价1.5美元。

Just then, a large strong man called David rushed into the road and held up his hand to the truck driver to stop.

就在那时，一个叫做大卫的强壮男人冲进马路伸出手向卡车司机示意停车。

He was working as a telemarketer when he applied for the truck driving job.

他申请卡车司机职位的时候，正在干电话推销员的工作。

Zhou Yajun, a long-distance truck driver and collector from Hebei Province, near Beijing, said he watched "Collection World" and other antiques shows every week, testing his appraisal skills against those of the judges in the hope that he could learn to outwit the counterfeiters who prey on the country's amateur antiquarians.

周亚军是住在北京附近河北省的长途卡车司机兼古物收藏家，自称每星期一定收看「收藏世界」与其他介绍古物资讯的节目，以评估自己与节目评审的鉴赏技术高下，进而学习识破假货的技巧。在中国，制造假货的不肖分子让业余骨董爱好者吃了不少亏。

Radar observers and long-distance truck drivers often reported blips that weren't there, and stopped for hitchhikers that didn't exist.

雷达观测员常常报告发现了信号，而雷达屏幕上却空空如也；长途卡车司机会突然停车，因为他看到搭便车的旅行者，而路上连个鬼影都没有。

Truck drivers Mike Baker, left, and Bryce Winjum relaxed on a pile of sandbags in the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D.

卡车司机Mike Baker（左边和Bryce Winjum 在法戈（美国达科他州东南部城市）的Fargodme的一堆沙袋上休息。

Work begins on estimating costs; folks keep eye on possible second crest Fargo, N.D., still has 300,000 sandbags inside its Fargodome, as well as police, National Guard and truck drivers on standby should a levee break.

代价评估工作开始进行；居民依然警惕着可能的第二个洪峰在法戈，依然有三十万袋沙袋存放于法戈大厅，警察，国民警卫队和卡车司机还在严阵以待，备战可能的溃堤。

In fact, they behaved just like monopolists, setting their prices so as to maximise their own revenue, without considering the response of the fellow at the next checkpoint, or whether their activities would deter truckers.

事实上，他们的行为举止就是独占者，确定其价格以提高他们自己的收入，不考虑下个检查站同事的反应，或他们的行为是否威慑卡车司机们。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失