交通部长EnriqueCornejo承诺本月底之前要恢复通车，很多秘鲁人都认为过于乐观。

Enrique Cornejo, the transport minister, has promised that the link will be restored by the end of this month. That strikes many Peruvians as wildly optimistic.

阿根廷的笑话都有夸大民族特征的典型套路—智利人无聊，巴拉圭人愚蠢，秘鲁人招摇撞骗。

There's a classic line of Argentinian jokes highlighting national stereotypes – Chileans being boring, Paraguayans stupid, Peruvians crooks. Most jokes, however, are directed at people from Galicia

无论是什么原因，或他们是否出自秘鲁人或外星人之手，他们依然神秘莫测地朝大洋远处望去。

No matter what the reason, whether they were set up by people from Peru or by aliens from space, they are still looking out over the ocean-mysteriously.

如果我们姑且相信官方统计的数据，几乎一半的秘鲁人还是生活在贫穷的状态之下，而贫穷人数的减少呈非常缓慢的趋势。

But almost half of Peruvians still live in poverty, if the official figures are to be believed, and the number is falling only slowly.