And in fact my first completed novel, Burmese Days, which I wrote when I was thirty but projected much earlier, is rather that kind of book.

事实上，我的第一部小说，《缅甸岁月》就属于这一类书，那是我早已构思但30岁时才写成的作品。

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The main character of Burmese Days is a minor administrator who seeks to escape from the dreary and narrow-minded chauvinism of his fellow British colonialists in Burma.

主人公想从缅甸的狭隘虚伪的英国同胞中逃脱。

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Burmese refugees have spoken of days of fear and bursts of gunfire and cannon blasts.

缅甸难民说到几天的害怕和几天的枪炮爆炸声。

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That was in the bad old days of the Burmese Road to Socialism.

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