雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第8章:地動之秋(5)
Even in Islamabad buildings collapsed.
就連伊斯蘭堡都傳來了建築物倒塌的消息。
It took a while for us to realise how bad it was.
過了一段時間，我們才意識到災情有多麼嚴重。
When the TV news began to show the devastation we saw that entire villages had been turned to dust.
我們在電視新聞上看到了大規模的毀壞：整座村莊被震爲塵土；
Landslides blocked access to the worst affected parts and all the phones and power lines were down.
泥石流阻斷了重災區的對外交通，電話線及電纜線都因此而斷裂。
The earthquake had affected 30,000 square kilometres, an area as big as the American state of Connecticut.
這次地震的影響範圍高達3萬平方公里，大小有如美國的康涅狄格州。
The numbers were than 73,000 people had been killed and 128,000 injured, many of them permanently nd three and a half million people had lost their homes.
傷亡人數令人難以置信，超過7.3萬人喪生，受傷人數則多達12.8萬人，災民當中許多人成爲殘障人士。約350萬人失去了他們的家園。
Roads, bridges, water and power had all gone.
道路、橋樑、自來水及電力幾乎瞬間全部毀壞。
Places we had visited like Balakot were almost completely destroyed.
有些我們曾去過的地方，如小鎮巴拉科特，幾近全毀。
Many of those killed were children who like me had been at school that morning.
死於災害中的許多人跟我一樣，都不過是當天早上去上學的孩子。
