the old soldiers urge me not to go looking.they'd prefer to think that the road they hacked across india's steep patkai range and down through the jungles of burma to china during world war ii is gone.that its two stringy lanes—now six decades old—have been devoured by time and landslides, jungle monsoons and swampy earth.
老兵們勸我別去找。他們寧愿相信二戰(zhàn)期間他們所開鑿的、始于印度陡峭的帕特開山、經(jīng)由緬甸的熱帶雨林、最后通往中國的那條道路已經(jīng)不存在了。他們寧愿相信那已有60年歷史、狹窄崎嶇的兩車道公路,已經(jīng)被時間、山崩、雨林季風和沼澤濕地所湮滅。