" I have seen neither your camel nor your jewels, " repeated the dervish.

“我既没有见过你们的骆驼，也没见过那些珠宝。”僧侣又强调道。

" Was he not blind in his right eye, and lame in his left leg? " said the dervish.

“这头骆驼是不是右眼瞎了，左腿跛了？”

Mevlana's dervishes whirl themselves into a meditative trance.

梅乌拉那 (Mevlana) 的苦行僧们旋转着自己进入冥想的恍惚状态。

" Shall we sway backward and forward, Mary, as if we were dervishes" ?

“我们来回摇摆吧，玛丽，就好像我们是托钵僧一样”？

The fat Boggis was hopping about like a dervish and shouting, 'Faster!

胖博吉斯像苦行僧一样跳来跳去，大喊：“快点！”

Succulent lamb soon fills our plates, and I'm about to be granted an unusual wish-a rare private audience with the whirling dervishes.

鲜嫩美昧的羊肉很快装满了我们的盘子。我有一个不寻常的愿望就要得以实现了--独自观赏托钵僧的旋转舞，这是非常罕见的待遇。

" My friends, " said the dervish, " I have never seen your camel, nor ever heard of him, but from you! "

“我亲爱的朋友，”僧侣说，“我其实根本就没见过你们的骆驼，甚至根本没听说过它，我是从你们身上看出来的。”

He recalled a sentence penned by Gordon during the last days at Khartoum-" I would sooner live like a dervish with the Mahdi than go out to dinner every night in London" .

他想起了戈登在喀土穆的最后几天写下的一句话——“我宁愿和马赫迪一起过着托钵僧式的生活，也不愿每天晚上去伦敦吃晚饭”。