1. But studying my textbooks late at night in the library of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), I would dream, not of India, but of America, the land of opportunity.
    但是, 当我深夜在印度技术学院的图书馆里啃着书本的时候，我脑子经常想的不是印度，而是美国这个机会之国。

2. Whether or not this is true, the high success rate of arranged marriages in different cultures — 90 percent in Iran, 95 percent in India,
    不管这种说法是否正确，不同文化中包办婚姻的成功率之高，却不由得使人驻足沉思：伊朗90%，印度95%，

3. The world´s great religions originated from Asia: Buddhism from India, Christianity from Palestine, Islam from Arabia.
    世界上的几大宗教起源于亚洲：佛教源于印度，基督教源于巴勒斯坦，伊斯兰教源于阿拉伯。

4. There were once six blind men in India, who stood by the roadside every day, begging from the people who passed.
    从前，印度有六个盲人，每天都站在路边向过往行人乞讨。

5. This proof was supplied by Ronald Ross, a British army physician working in India in the 1880s.
    这种证明是由一位19世纪80年代在印度工作的名叫罗纳德·罗斯的英国军医提供的。

6. True, I grew up in India, where arranged marriages are common.
    不错，我是在印度长大的，包办婚姻在这儿十分普遍。

7. He believed these lands to be part of India.
    他以为这些地方是印度的一部分。

8. And the decks were soon covered with colourful rugs from Persia, silks from India, copper coffee pots, and beautiful handmade silverware.
    一会儿工夫，甲板上就摆满了色彩斑斓的波斯地毯。印度丝绸。铜咖啡壶以及手工制作的漂亮的银器。

9. During the 1960s and 1970s, politicians in my native country, India, used to wave the slogan "Stop the Brain Drain" — a reference to the fact that the cream of India was leaving for the lucrative shores of England and America.
    在20世纪60和70年代，我的祖国印度的政客们常常喊着"制止人才外流"的口号, 它所指的实际上是这样一个事实: 印度的精英们正在离开印度，到能够赚钱的国家——英国和美国去。

10. At the Nagpur book show, for example, the latest American social publications were conspicuous by their absence and India's politically conscious leadership has been replaced by a new generation, riding on the wave of the Internet, making fortunes wi
    例如，正因为那格浦尔书展上有关美国最新社会学出版物的缺乏，这些书籍反而变得引人注目起来。此外，印度有政治意识的领导层已被那些在因特网上冲浪、在短短几年内发了财的新一代人所取代。