双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第15章:离开河谷(1)

15 Leaving the VAlley

15 离开河谷

Leaving the valley was harder than anything I had done before.

离开河谷，比我之前做过的任何事情都要艰难许多。

I remembered the tapa my grandMother used to recite: 'No Pashtun leaves his land of his own sweet will.

我还记得祖母以前经常背诵的一首拓帕：“普什图人不会自愿离开他的土地。

Either he leaves from poverty or he leaves for love.'

若要离开，不是因为贫穷，就是因为爱。”

Now we were being driven out for a third reason the tapa writer had never imagined – the Taliban.

现在，我们因为诗人从来没有想象过的第三个被迫离开的理由——塔利班。

Leaving our home felt like having my heart ripped out.

离开我们的家，让我觉得心如刀割。

I stood on our roof looking at the mountains, the snow-topped Mount Elum where Alexander the Great had reached up and touched Jupiter.

我站在屋顶眺望远山，亚历山大大帝曾登上白雪覆盖的埃勒姆山顶，在那里碰触到了木星。

I looked at the trees all coming into leaf.

我看到了树木正在萌芽。

The fruit of our apricot tree might be eaten by someone else this year.

今年，我们家那棵杏树的果实会被其他人采摘吧。

Everything was silent, pin-drop silent.

世界悄然静寂，就连一根针掉在地上都能听得见。

There was no sound from the river or the wind; even the birds were not chirping.

河流和春风都静默了，甚至连鸟儿都停止了鸣叫。

I wanted to cry because I felt in my heart I might never see my home again.

我想哭，因为我从心底感觉到，我可能再也见不到我的家了。

The documentary makers had asked me how I would feel if one day I left Swat and never came back.

纪录片的制作人曾经问我，如果有一天我要离开斯瓦特，永远不再归来，我会有什么感觉。

At the time I had thought it was a stupid question, but now I saw that everything I could not imagine happening had happened.

当时，我认为那是个愚蠢的问题。但现在我发现，所有那些我无法想象会发生的事情，都发生了。