双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第16章:悲伤之谷(12)
We were often joined by my father's friend Zahid Khan, a fellow member of the Swat Qaumi Jirga.
He was also the president of the All Swat Hotels Association, so he was particularly eager for life to go back to normal so that tourists could return.
同时也是斯瓦特旅馆协会的主席，所以他特别急于让生活回到正轨，这样旅客们才会回来。Like my father he was very outspoken and had been threatened too.
和我的父亲一样，他也很直言不讳，因此也遭受过不少威胁。
One night in November 2009 he had had a very narrow escape.
2009年11月的一个晚上，他与死神擦肩而过。Zahid Khan was returning to his home from a meeting with army officials at Circuit House late at night when he was ambushed.
受到突袭时，他刚结束一个在环形屋与军方将领们召开的会议，在回家的路上。Fortunately, many of his family live in the same area and they exchanged fire with the attackers, forcing them to flee.
幸运的是，他的家族里有很多人住在该区域。他们与袭击者发生了交火，迫使对方撤离。Then on 1 December 2009 there was a suicide attack on a well-known local ANP politician and member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, Dr Shamsher Ali Khan.
紧接着，2009年12月1日，发生了一起针对当地相当知名的人民民主党政治家，同时也是开伯尔-普什图省代表大会的成员沙姆谢尔·阿里·汗医生的自杀式攻击事件。He had been greeting friends and constituents for Eid at his hujra, just a mile from Imam Deri where Fazlullah's headquarters had been, when the bomb went off. Dr Shamsher had been an outspoken critic of the Taliban.
沙姆谢尔医生经常直言批判塔利班，当时，他正在自己的会堂接待朋友以及选民们（那里距法兹鲁拉在伊满德里的总部旧址只有不到2公里），炸弹突然爆炸了。He died on the spot and nine other people were injured.
他当场死亡，其他9人受伤。People said the bomber was about eighteen years old.
人们说袭击者的年纪大约在18岁左右。The police found his legs and other parts of his body.
警方找到了他的腿和身体的其他部位。A couple of weeks after that our school was asked to take part in the District Child Assembly Swat, which had been set up by the charity UNICEF and by the Khpal Kor (My Home) Foundation for orphans.
几星期后，我们学校受邀加入“斯瓦特地区儿童代表大会”，该组织由联合国儿童基金会与克帕寇尔孤儿基金会联手创办。Sixty students from all over Swat had been chosen as members.
60名来自斯瓦特各地的学生被选为代表，They were mostly boys although eleven girls from my school went along.
多数是男孩，不过，我们学校有11名女生参加。
