阿非利卡人

我们曾经生活在荷兰，所以要跟这些阿非利卡人说荷兰语，他们则跟我们说阿非利卡语（Afrikaans，在南非使用的荷兰语）。

We lived in the Netherlands , so we spoke Dutch to the Afrikaners , and they spoke Afrikaans back .

政府为生活困难的阿非利卡人提供了邮差、接待员等公务员职位。

Struggling Afrikaners were given government jobs as postmen or receptionists .

1994年，阿非利卡人将权力移交给纳尔逊•曼德拉（NelsonMandela），然后马上就变得无足轻重了。

In 1994 they handed power to Nelson Mandela and instantly became irrelevant .

大巴上其他所有乘客都是阿非利卡人（Afrikaner）：这些人都是大块头的白种人，穿着短裤，看上去很健康。

All the other people in the bus were Afrikaners : big healthy white families in shorts .

甚至在斯坦陵布什大学（StellenboschUniversity，阿非利卡人的牛津大学（Oxford）），如今也只有大约10%的课程使用阿非利卡语授课。

Scarcely used in administration , Afrikaans just isn 't much use anymore . Even at Stellenbosch University , the Afrikaner Oxford , only about 10 per cent of lectures are now in Afrikaans .

他是一位诺贝尔奖得主，但也是一个流亡者和一个阿非利卡人（Afrikaner），他的作品描绘了新南非的黯淡景象。

He is a Nobel Prize-winner ; but he is also an exile and an Afrikaner , whose work presents a bleak portrait of the new South Africa .

他通过一本优秀的纪实类图书给出了答案。这本书即将上市，荷兰语版的书名为《阿非利卡人》（Afrikaners），阿非利卡语版的书名为《迷失》（阿非利卡语原文为Rigtingbedonnerd，意为失去方向）。

His answer - a wonderful book of deep reportage - is about to appear as Afrikaners in Dutch , and Rigtingbedonnerd ( " Directionless , " roughly ) in Afrikaans .

许多阿非利卡人经商，与政府关系很好。

Many Afrikaners run businesses , and get on well with government .

许多阿非利卡人正在努力寻找一个洗脱了种族隔离制污点的新身份。

Many Afrikaners are struggling to find a new identity untarnished by apartheid .

如今，这些阿非利卡人中，生活水平从第一世界一下子跌至第三世界的不在少数。

Now many of these people have plummeted from first to third world .

年轻一代的阿非利卡人中，很少有人与其他肤色的人住在一起。

Few young members of the tribe have shacked up with other colours .

如今，这300万阿非利卡人几乎已被遗忘。

Today the three million Afrikaners are mostly forgotten .

不遵守这种行为方式的人在当时被视为阿非利卡人中的叛徒。

Renegades were treated as traitors to the tribe .

德弗里斯写道，就连那些过得不错的阿非利卡人也深切地感受到了一种失落感。

Even thriving Afrikaners feel an overwhelming sense of loss , writes de Vries .

30年前我们在大巴上遇到的那些阿非利卡人，一定没有想过这种情形。

Those families on the bus 30 years ago couldn 't have imagined that .

移居海外的阿非利卡人，大多是受教育程度较高的。

It was largely the better-educated who emigrated .

在种族隔离制下，身为阿非利卡人，只有一种行为方式是被认可的。

Under apartheid , there was only one accepted way to be an Afrikaner .

如今，留在南非的阿非利卡人中，或许有五分之一的家庭，月收入不到300欧元。

Perhaps a fifth of them now have family incomes below EU300 a month .

德弗里斯写道：大多数阿非利卡人的经济状况都比1994年之前更好了。

Economically , most Afrikaners are better off than before 1994 , writes de Vries .

在德弗里斯看来，大多数阿非利卡人认为，并没有“彩虹国度”这回事。

According to de Vries , few Afrikaners believe in the " rainbow nation " .

阿非利卡人的田园生活，村广场和小教堂，全都一去不复返了。

The Afrikaner rural idyll with its village square and little church has gone forever .

阿非利卡人和黑人经济结构的趋同与南非土地问题的形成

Afrikaner and Their Convergence with the Black Economic Structure on Land Problems in South Africa

阿非利卡人仍然与其他族群保持着距离，这其中甚至包括大部分说阿非利卡语的非白种人。

Afrikaners still remain distinct even from the majority of Afrikaans-speakers who are not white .

与此同时，留在南非的许多阿非利卡人则陷入了贫困。

Meanwhile , many Afrikaners who stayed in South Africa have sunk into an African poverty .

作为个体，阿非利卡人或许能在南非生活得不错，但整个民族的情况或许不那么妙。

Afrikaners can flourish as individuals in South Africa , but perhaps not as a tribe .

不过，阿非利卡人在新环境里适应得不错。

But Afrikaners adapt well .

在南非，德弗里斯见到了在交通灯前乞讨的阿非利卡人，无家可归、住在棚户区的阿非利卡人。

De Vries found Afrikaners begging at traffic lights , and living as vagabonds in squatter camps .

尽管人们担心的黑人的复仇活动始终没有到来，但阿非利卡人的固有生活方式正在土崩瓦解。

Although the feared apocalypse by vengeful blacks never came , the tribe 's institutions are dissolving .

在种族隔离时期，阿非利卡人虽然在南非扮演着统治者角色，但在南非之外的地方却是遭人唾弃。

In those days of apartheid , Afrikaners were rulers of South Africa and pariahs everywhere else .

德弗里斯似乎未能见到的一种景象是：许多阿非利卡人正在融入南非的彩虹国度。

What he doesn 't seem to have found is many Afrikaners merging into South Africa 's Rainbow Nation .