Though a new road would help some, a roundtrip to the school and back along its winding route would likely still take parents more than two hours. To keep the children of Smangus coming, Hsinkuang's principal offered them a little extra leeway: "As long as they made it to school before dinner time on Monday, they weren't considered late."
為了求學，司馬庫斯的孩子從小就得離開父母，選擇住校，即使道路開通了，家長們依然得花上兩個多小時往返於曲折的山路上。