英文を日本語に訳してください。
How I wanted to understand what the story was about! The narrator`s dignified, hard-working face and the ring of the other faces, good-hearted and uneasy but pleased, stirred and confused my imagination. When I was a child in Wisconsin my uncle and aunt gave me a volume of tales from The Thousand and One Nights, illustrated in color. Presumably the subject matter of those afternoons in Marrakech derived in some measure from that masterpiece of the Near East, as it had been inherited and altered by successive tellers and gradually exported westward as centuries passed. But the inspiration and the techniques of the two storytellers cross-legged there in the marketplace, telling and retelling, with changes and reinterpretations to suit each successive occasion and faraway place, dated much farther back than the The Thousand and One Nights to classical times and indeed to prehistory.
