中英文本

"She makes me feel old," complained photographer Matthieu Paley after we had trudged by on the dirt road built by the Soviets.
我们涉水过河上了苏联修的土路，摄影师马蒂厄·佩利抱怨道：“她使我觉得自己老迈来临。”
Paley was voluble and earthy, a French Zorba. He was joining me for a rare foot crossing of Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, a forgotten redoubt tucked high behind the mountain walls of the Hindu Kush. In the mornings he performed yoga on the road to soothe a tricky back. Expanded font settings on my laptop were my own concessions to middle age. But I didn't feel old. Not at all. Walking the Earth makes you a child again. By the time I eventually reach Tierra del Fuego, my destination six or seven years away, I will be newborn.
佩利是个很健谈且朴实的法国卓巴。他和我一起进行穿越阿富汗瓦罕走廊的罕见徒步行走，那是隐藏在高高的兴都库什山脉下面的一个防御堡垒。许多个早晨，他在路练习瑜珈以减轻北部的酸痛。我扩大笔记本电脑上的字体设置是承认自己已经人到中年，但我并不觉得老了，根本没有感觉。行走全球让我又成为了一个孩子。等我最终到达火地岛（我6到7年路程的目的地）时，我将得到重生。

I glanced back.
我回头暼了一眼。
Paley was doing a Wakhi dance now -- paddling his arms and shimmying his hips along the desolate banks of the Panj. Across the glacial currents in Afghanistan, a few delighted Wakhi shepherds in dirt-brown shalwar kameezes gathered to mimic his moves. Everyone dances in Afghanistan. During the war, in the early 2000s, I had danced into Kabul with a column of Northern Alliance troops, two-stepping behind a T-55 tank to avoid land mines: a combat conga line. I remember how one fighter broke ranks to pillage a farmhouse. A booby trap blew off his feet with a dull pop. This was a long time ago. It was before I began truly to walk, back when I was a million or more years old.
佩利当时也正在跳一种瓦罕舞蹈--沿荒凉的喷赤河岸，挥舞着胳膊，扭动着屁股。冰冷的河水对面，几个穿土褐色宽松长罩衫的瓦罕牧羊人聚在一起模仿他的动作。阿富汗人人都跳着舞。战争期间，2000年代初期，我曾随一支北约军队跳进了喀布尔，跟在一辆T-55坦克后面两步远以避开地雷阵：一种战争康加舞带。我记得一名战士是如何离队去抢掠一家农舍的，一枚诡雷沉闷地嘭的一声炸掉了他的脚。那是很久以前的事了，那是在我开始真正地行走之前，我要回到100多万年以前去。

重点讲解

1.concession to 承认
This may be as much a concession to political reality as a statement of economic preference.
这可能更多是作为经济优惠声明而对政治现实的一种承认。

2.a column of 一列
A column of Israeli tanks and soldiers, some holding Israeli flags, withdrew from the Gaza Strip for what the army called "rest and relaxation".
一列坦克载着以色列士兵撤离加沙，进行所谓的“休息调整”，有些士兵手上还拿着以色列国旗。

3.break ranks 出列；站出来
In Xinji it is the relatively pampered urban workforce that has been the first to break ranks.
在辛集，那些相对富足的城市工人首先站了出来。