It is 10am and the queue outside a petrol station in one suburb of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo is already hundreds of people long. At the front is Malar Peter, whose family has taken turns to keep their place for 12 hours already. A few paces behind her is Padmasiri, who arrived at 1am. And right at the back of the queue stands Arumugam Annaletchumi, 50, who expects to be there for the rest of this hot, humid day.
现在是上午10点，在斯里兰卡商业首都科伦坡郊区的一个加油站外，已有数百人排起了长队。在最前面的是马拉尔•彼得(Malar Peter)，她和她的家人已经轮流守着他们的位置12个小时了。在她后面几步是凌晨1点来的帕德马西里(Padmasiri)。排在队伍最后面的是现年50岁的阿鲁穆加姆•阿纳列楚米(Arumugam Annaletchumi), 他估计，在这炎热潮湿的天气里，自己接下来一整天都要在这里等。
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