雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第9章:電臺毛拉(1)
9 Radio Mullah
9 電臺毛拉
I WAS TEN when the Taliban came to our valley.
當塔利班來到我們的河谷時，
Moniba and I had been reading the Twilight books and longed to be vampires.
我十歲，正在和莫妮巴看《暮光之城》系列小說，滿心希望成爲吸血一族。
It seemed to us that the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires.
對我們來說，入夜後來到的塔利班與吸血鬼沒什麼不同。
They appeared in groups, armed with knives and Kalashnikovs, and first emerged in Upper Swat, in the hilly areas of Matta.
他們成羣結隊而來，配有短刀和突擊步槍；他們最早出現於斯瓦特北部，在馬塔的山陵地帶。
They didn’t call themselves Taliban to start with and didn’t look like the Afghan Taliban we’d seen in pictures with their turbans and black-rimmed eyes.
一開始，他們不稱自己爲塔利班，看起來也不像那些我們曾在照片上看過的阿富汗塔利班那樣佩戴頭巾，將眼眶周圍塗黑。
These were strange-looking men with long straggly hair and beards and camouflage vests over their shalwar kamiz, which they wore with the trousers well above the ankle.
這些穿着奇特的男人留着長髮、鬍鬚凌亂不堪，在沙爾瓦爾克米茲[1]外又套了一件迷彩背心，褲長則只到腳踝上方。
They had jogging shoes or cheap plastic sandals on their feet, and sometimes stockings over their heads with holes for their eyes, and they blew their noses dirtily into the ends of their turbans.
他們穿慢跑鞋或廉價塑膠拖鞋，有時會用布包住頭臉，只露出一雙眼睛。
