雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第11章:聰明的班級(6)

‘At night our fear is strong, Jani,’

夜晚，人們的恐懼會增強，親愛的。

he told me, ‘but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again.’

他告訴我，但是天亮了之後，大地一片光明之時，我們會再次找到自己的勇氣。

And this is true for my family.

對我們的家人來說，的確如此。

We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.

我們很害怕，但我們的勇氣遠勝於恐懼。

‘We must rid our valley of the Taliban, and then no one has to feel this fear,’ he said.

我們必須想辦法把塔利班從這裏趕走，這樣，就不會再有人需要承受這樣的恐懼。父親說。

In times of crisis we Pashtuns resort to the old trusted ways,

在發生重大危機的時候，我們普什圖人有傳統的解決辦法。

so in 2008 elders in Swat created an assembly called the Qaumi Jirga to challenge Fazlullah.

2008年，斯瓦特的長者們成立了一個叫作和平組織的團體來迎戰法茲魯拉。

Three local men, Mukhtar Khan Yousafzai, Khurshid Kakajee and Zahid Khan went from hujra to hujra persuading elders to join together.

三名當地人穆赫塔爾•汗•優素福扎伊、庫爾希德•卡卡吉以及扎西德•汗拜訪一間又一間的會堂，說服更多長者加入他們的行列。

The senior elder was a white-bearded man of seventy-four called Abdul Khan Khaliq who had been one of the Queen’s bodyguards when she had visited Swat to stay with our wali.

他們的首領是留着白色長髯，現年74歲的阿卜杜勒•汗•卡利格。