Election figures showed there was a record voted turnout of 66%. Andrew North reports from the city of Varanasi.

选举数据显示投票率达到创纪录的66%，安德鲁·诺斯在瓦拉纳西市报道。

The English writer Richard Lannoy, who all but lost his soul to Varanasi, had called it a " City of Darkness and Dream" .

英国作家理查德·兰诺伊几乎把他的灵魂都献给了瓦拉纳西，他称这座城市为“黑暗与梦想之城”。

While attention is usually paid to Delhi and Mumbai, the WHO founded the cities Kanpur, Faridabad, and Varanasi are the top of the list.

尽管人们的注意力通常集中在德里和孟买，世界卫生组织建立了坎普尔、法里达巴德和瓦拉纳西的城市。

Leary memorably described Varanasi, Hinduism's most sacred place, as the " the site of a non-stop hippie festival for the last 5,000 years" .

利里将印度教最神圣的地方瓦拉纳西描述为“举办了一场持续5000年的嬉皮狂欢节的地方”，这个说法让人至今难忘。

Some reports said the express had hit a stray cow. The train is expected to reduce the travel time between Delhi and Varanasi by six hours.

有报道称火车撞上了一头离群的牛。据悉，该火车预计可以将德里和瓦拉纳西的行程减少6个小时。

Dogs were sleeping in the middle of the busy road – Varanasi's Fifth Avenue, I surmised – and men were outstretched (sleeping, I hoped) along the side and on the pavement.

狗在繁忙的马路中央睡着了——我猜是瓦拉纳西的第五大道——路边和人行道上躺着摊开四肢的人（希望他们只是睡着了）。