雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第1章8:訪客
People liked to hear him talk, and I loved the evenings when guests visited. We would sit on the floor around a long plastic sheet which my mother laid with food, and eat with our right hand as is our custom, balling together rice and meat. As darkness fell we sat by the light of oil lamps, batting away the flies as our silhouettes made dancing shadows on the walls. In the summer months there would often be thunder and lightning crashing outside and I would crawl closer to my father’s knee.
人們喜歡聽他講話。傍晚訪客雲集時，是我最高興的時刻。我們會圍着母親鋪在地板上的塑料布席地而坐。塑料布上擺滿食物。我們按照習俗，用右手把米飯和肉捏成小團放進嘴裏食用。夜晚來臨，我們點起油燈，趕蒼蠅的手在牆上留下舞動的剪影。夏天的時候，屋外常常電閃雷鳴，我就會更緊地靠在父親的膝頭。
I would listen rapt as he told stories of warring tribes, Pashtun leaders and saints, often through poems that he read in a melodious voice, crying sometimes as he read. Like most people in Swat we are from the Yousafzai tribe. We Yousafzai (which some people spell Yusufzai or Yousufzai) are originally from Kandahar and are one of the biggest Pashtun tribes, spread across Pakistan and Afghanistan.
我總是全神貫注地傾聽父親講那些關於部落間的戰爭、普什圖領袖和聖人的故事。他常常以悅耳的音調朗讀詩詞來闡述這些故事，有時會令我潸然淚下。像大多數斯瓦特人一樣，我們來自優素福扎伊族。優素福扎伊族人源自坎大哈，是普什圖部落中最大的一支，分佈在巴基斯坦和阿富汗各處。
Our ancestors came to Swat in the sixteenth century from Kabul, where they had helped a Timurid emperor win back his throne after his own tribe removed him. The emperor rewarded them with important positions in the court and army, but his friends and relatives warned him that the Yousafzai were becoming so powerful they would overthrow him. So one night he invited all the chiefs to a banquet and set his men on them while they were eating. Around 600 chiefs were massacred. Only two escaped, and they fled to Peshawar along with their tribesmen. After some time they went to visit some tribes in Swat to win their support so they could return to Afghanistan. But they were so captivated by the beauty of Swat they instead decided to stay there and forced the other tribes out.
我們的祖先16世紀時從喀布爾來到斯瓦特。在喀布爾時，因爲幫助一位帖木兒君王奪回王位，我們的祖先獲得宮廷中與軍隊裏重要的職務。但君王聽信讒言，認爲優素福扎伊族日漸龐大，終會篡奪他的王位。於是便在一個晚上舉辦了一場宴會，邀請所有的族人頭目赴宴，並設下埋伏。大約有六百個頭目被屠殺，只有兩人逃過此劫，跟着族人一起逃到了白沙瓦。過了一段日子，他們來拜訪斯瓦特的幾個部落，尋求支持，以便返回阿富汗。但是，他們被斯瓦特的美景深深吸引，於是改變心意，決定留下，並把其他部落趕出此地。
