Like so many others before and since, I was captivated from the first moment by Mandela’s huge, luminescent smile, by his unending charm and grace, and by the lucid intelligence with which he discussed his country’s transition problems. But, above all, there was his extraordinary, almost unbelievable, lack of bitterness toward his Afrikaner jailers.
我不必有所顾虑。像之前和之后很多别的人一样，我从第一刻起就被曼德拉咧着大嘴的温暖笑容、无休无止的魅力风度和他探讨自己国家过渡问题时清晰的智慧所彻底俘获。但最令我赞叹的是他对南非白人狱卒令人难以置信的宽容态度。