双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第20章:谁是马拉拉?(4)
My mother made our usual breakfast of sugary tea, chapatis and fried egg.
We all had breakfast together – me, my mother, my father, Khushal and Atal.
我们大家一起吃早餐——我、母亲、父亲、胡沙尔和阿塔尔。It was a big day for my mother as she was going to start lessons that afternoon to learn to read and write with Miss Ulfat, my old teacher from kindergarten.
那天是母亲的大日子。当天下午，她要开始跟着我幼儿园的老师乌尔法小姐学习读、写我们的语言。
My father started teasing Atal, who was eight by then and cheekier than ever.
父亲打趣阿塔尔，他当时八岁，脸皮比以前更厚了。'Look, Atal, when Malala is prime minister, you will be her secretary,' he said.
“等着看，阿塔尔，等哪一天马拉拉成为总理，你来给她当秘书。”父亲说。Atal got very cross.
阿塔尔听了很生气。'No, no, no!' he said. 'I'm no less than Malala.
“我不要，不要，不要！”他说，“我才不会输给马拉拉。I will be prime minister and she will be my secretary.'
我要成为总理，让她来当我的秘书。”All the banter meant I ended up being so late I only had time to eat half my egg and no time to clear up.
这些玩笑话耽误了我不少时间。后来，我只能匆匆吞下半个鸡蛋，也没时间整理仪容便赶去学校了。The Pakistan Studies paper went better than I thought it would.
巴基斯坦研究的考卷比我想象的要简单。There were questions about how Jinnah had created our country as the first Muslim homeland and also about the national tragedy of how Bangladesh came into being.
考题包括真纳怎样将巴基斯坦建成第一个伊斯兰国家，以及孟加拉国的独立所造成的国家悲剧。It was strange to think that Bangladesh was once part of Pakistan despite being a thousand miles away.
毕竟两国之间相隔千里，我总是觉得很难想象孟加拉国曾是巴基斯坦领土的一部分。I answered all the questions and was confident I'd done well.
我写出了所有问题的答案，也对自己的答案充满信心。I was happy when the exam was over, chatting and gossiping with my friends as we waited for Sher Mohammad Baba, a school assistant, to call for us when the bus arrived.
考试结束了，我很开心，一边跟朋友们闲聊，一边等着学校助理谢尔·穆罕默德·巴巴通知我们巴士来了。
