By and by the Eldest Magician met the Man on the banks of the Perak river, and said, 'Ho!

渐渐地，最年长的魔术师在霹雳河的岸边遇到了那个人， 然后说：'Ho！

'But now we must go back to Perak, and that is a weary way to paddle.

“但现在我们到霹雳州， 那是一种疲惫的划桨方式。

A hundred-year-old Buddhist monastery in Malaysia's northwestern region of Perak faces demolition after the cement company that owns the land won, on appeal, the right to force the monks out.

马来西亚西北部霹雳州一所拥有百年历史的佛教院面临拆迁，此前拥有院土地的水泥公司在上诉中赢得了将僧侣赶出去的权利。

They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his kris—a curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame, —and they pushed out on the Perak river.

他们踏上了独木舟；小女儿跟他们一起来了。男人拿起他的克里斯——一把弯曲的、波浪形的匕首，刀刃像火焰——他们在霹雳河上推进。

'Look! ' said the Man, and as he spoke the great Sea came up the mouth of the Perak river, driving the river backwards till it overflowed all the dark forests for miles and miles, and flooded the Man's house.

'看！'男人说，就在他说话的时候，大海涌上了霹雳河的河口，将河水逆流而上，直到淹没了数英里外的所有黑暗森林，并淹没了男人的房子。