Here well-fed foreigners could live in their own little comfortable land of whisky-and-soda, polo, tennis, and gossip, happily quite unaware of the pulse of humanity outside the great city's silent, insulating walls — as indeed many did.
Here well-fed foreigners could live in their own little comfortable land of whisky-and-soda, polo, tennis, and gossip, happily quite unaware of the pulse of humanity outside the great city's silent, insulating walls — as indeed many did.
那些不愁吃穿的外国人能在自己的土地上过着舒适的生活，有着威士忌、苏打水、马球、网球和闲话为伴的生活使他们完全没有意识到大城市的安宁之外的人类的脉搏，心中筑起了与世隔绝的墙，确实就像许多人过去所做的一样。