雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第16章:悲傷之谷(15)
It was the same story throughout Pakistan.
The mighty Indus River, which flows from the Himalayas down through KPK and Punjab to Karachi and the Arabian Sea, and of which we are so proud, had turned into a raging torrent and burst its banks.
自喜馬拉雅山上流淌而下，穿過開伯爾-普什圖省與旁遮普，流經卡拉奇，匯入阿拉伯海的偉大的印度河，本是我們的驕傲，現在卻成了洪水猛獸，Roads, crops and entire villages were washed away.
它沖垮了河岸、道路、作物，甚至整座村莊都被河水沖垮。
Around 2,000 people drowned and 14 million people were affected.
這次事件約2000人死亡，1400萬人受災。Many of them lost their homes and 7,000 schools were destroyed.
許多人失去了家園，7000所學校被沖垮。It was the worst flood in living memory.
這是人們記憶中損失最慘重的一次洪災。The head of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, called it a 'slow-motion tsunami'.
聯合國祕書長潘基文形容它是一場“慢動作的海嘯”。We read that more lives had been affected and more damage had been caused by the floods than the Asian tsunami, our 2005 earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake combined.
我們在媒體上讀到，這場洪水所造成的人員傷亡及損失，比亞洲海嘯、我們在2005年時發生的地震、卡特里娜颶風與海地大地震中的人員傷亡及損失全部加起來都還要慘重。Swat was one of the places most affected.
斯瓦特是災情最慘重的地方之一。Thirty-four of our forty-two bridges had been washed away, cutting off much of the valley.
我們的42座橋樑中，有34座被大水沖走，隔絕了河谷的許多地區。Electric pylons had been smashed into pieces so we had no power.
電力轉接塔被沖毀，電力中斷。Our own street was on a hill so we were a bit better protected from the overflowing river, but we shivered at the sound of it, a growling, heavy-breathing dragon devouring everything in its path.
我們家的街道位於一座山丘上，所以面對湍急的水流時，比起其他人，我們算是稍微受到些保護，但我們被那聲音嚇壞了。洪水彷彿一條號叫着、呼吸沉重的巨龍，吞噬了它所行經之路上的一切事物。The riverside hotels and restaurants where tourists used to eat trout and enjoy the views were all destroyed.
以前，河岸邊滿是旅館和餐廳，遊客們在那裏邊享受美味的鱒魚，邊欣賞眼前的美景。現在，這些已經被全部摧毀了。The tourist areas were the hardest hit parts of Swat.
旅遊地區是斯瓦特災情最嚴重的區域。Hill station resorts like Malam Jabba, Madyan and Bahrain were devastated, their hotels and bazaars in ruins.
山嶺上的旅遊景點，如馬蘭加巴、梅德昂和巴合拉恩都滿目瘡痍，旅館和市集變成一片廢墟。
