They have straight black beards, and their turbans are covered with golden sequins, and long strings of amber and carved peach-stones glide through their cool fingers.
他们长着乌黑的美髯，头巾上覆着金币，长串的琥珀和雕花的桃核在他们冰凉的手指间掠动。
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To most Afghan eyes, watching heavily guarded foreign aid-workers glide by in their Landcruisers, it is obvious that much of the money is going straight back out of the country.