We rubbed our nervous blue eyes and looked again.

我们揉了揉紧张的蓝眼睛然后看着她们
Still they penetrated us with sorrowful and hypnotic gleam.

她们的目光仍盯着我们悲伤又有点落寞
When they talked they suddenly became frantic and almost silly.

她们一说话就显得那么粗野傻乎乎的
In their silence they were themselves.

只有在安静下来时才像是女人
"They"ve only recently learned to sell these crystals

她们是最近才知道这些水晶石可以卖钱
since the highway was built about ten years back.

公路修通不过才十年
Up until that time this entire nation must have been silent."

没有公路时这个国家的生活一定非常平静
That's Dean.

这是狄安说的
In this fantasy about the indigenous girls,what you see is

在这个关于本地女孩的故事中你看到的是
a commitment to language and the activity of selling,

语言的使用还有销售这一行为
buying and selling, entirely entwined with one another.

买卖两者完全缠绕在一起
So, the fantasy here is that it's selling and buying that produces in them

奇妙的是作品中的买卖行为产生了