Malaysia is a land of driving on the left, three-point British-style plugs and an elite with plummy English accents who can discourse knowledgeably on Boris Johnson’s career plans. There’s even still an ancient concrete cricket pitch on Merdeka Square, the spot in Kuala Lumpur where the Union Jack was lowered on the night of Malaysia’s independence in 1957. And the country’s prime minister, Najib Razak, is an old boy of Britain’s Malvern College and Nottingham University.
馬來西亞採用英式三腳插頭,汽車在道路左側行駛,精英們用拿腔拿調的英語口音對鮑里斯•強森(Boris Johnson,倫敦前市長、現任英國外交大臣——譯者注)的職業計劃發表內行的見解。吉隆坡的獨立廣場(Merdeka Square)甚至仍有一個古老的混凝土板球場。1957年,在馬來西亞獨立的那個夜晚,英國國旗(Union Jack)就在這裏落下。該國總理總理納吉布•拉扎克(Najib Razak)是英國馬萊文學院(Malvern College)和諾丁漢大學(Nottingham University)的校友。