10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.

life is very hard for ninety percent of the people．With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil．

11．She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.

She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community，that she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．

12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.

People with brown skins are almost invisible．

13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms,…

The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．

14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?

15．Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. Every white man，the onlookers，the officers on their horses and the white N.C.Os. marching with the black soldiers，had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind．

Lesson 3

1．And it is an activity only of human.

And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．

2．Conversation is not for making a point.

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．

3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.

In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view．

4．Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.

People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other's lives．