少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 27

Chapter 27,Later that evening I overheard my parents speaking.,"You said yes?" said Father.,"I believe he asked you too. You referred him to me," replied Mother.,"Did I?","You did.","You're not busy now. You're quite comfortably unemployed ¹ by the looks of it. If you want to march into his room and pull the prayer rug from under his feet and discuss the question of Christian ² baptism with him, please go ahead. I won't object.","No, no." I could tell from his voice that Father was settling deeper into his chair. There was a pause.,"He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas ³, he pursued. "I don't understand it. We're a modern Indian family; we live in a modern way, India is on the cusp of becoming a truly modern and advanced nation-and here we've produced a son who thinks he's the reincarnation of Sri Ramakrishna.","If Mrs. Gandhi is what being modern and advanced is about, I'm not sure I like it," Mother said.,"Mrs. Gandhi will pass! Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread-these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn ⁴ yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly ⁵ convinced of this. Mrs. Gandhi and her foolishness will pass. The New India will come.",The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作 。,They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼
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