If this was Varanasi at its most silent, I thought, almost unable to hear him as a train, too, thundered past on a brick bridge above us, I couldn't imagine it on one of its frequent festival days.

如果这是瓦拉纳西最寂静的时候，我想，几乎听不到他的声音，一列火车接着从我们头顶上的一座砖桥上隆隆驶过，我无法想象在一个频繁的节日里会是这样的场景。