and again there are people now writing

现在有许多人这样写道或描述道
and saying, "Well, it wasn't that bad.

"事情并不是那么糟糕
They brought trains to India,

他们把火车带到了印度
ended the huge disparities in prices."

结束了巨大的价格差异"
Certainly lots of good things did come.

当然是带来了许多的好处
But looming in the background were these massacres.

但隐现在背后的却是那些大屠杀
The edition that I'm working on now,

我现在正在修订的
that I'm just finishing of the book that you're kindly reading,

也就是你们正在读的那本我正在完成的书
there's a whole recent spate of interesting literature

其中说到有一大批有趣的近代文学作品
on the end of the British empire

关于19世纪50年代英国帝国
in Kenya in the 1950s.

在肯尼亚的事情
History of the Hanged is one.

《绞杀的历史》是其中的一篇作品