09/01/12 16:23:02
和訳お願いします。
１．The report was meant to protect those who had assisted and took joy in her suicide from police invesgation.
Her techers could not believe she had chosen to do anything so final.「She must have been forced to sit on the pyre」they said.Prayers were said at the cremation site for 12 days following the Woman's suttee（焼かれ死に）.
２．An elderly local man boasted that it was not necessary to force widows to do suttee:“Suttee had a long tradition , and it was a matter of a pride”
３．Suttee is the ultimate statement of male-female bonding:the joint destriction of a marriage and household.