雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第15章:離開河谷(11)
We continued to worry about my father.
In Shangla it was hard to find a mobile phone signal.
在香拉縣，手機很難接收到信號，We had to climb onto a huge boulder in a field, and even then we rarely had more than one bar of reception so we hardly ever spoke to him.
我們得爬上田野中的一塊巨石。但即便如此，手機信號的狀況也很難超過一格，所以，我們極少有機會能跟他說話。
But after we had been in Shangla for about six weeks, my father said we could travel to Peshawar, where he had been staying in one room with three friends.
但在我們抵達香拉縣約六個星期後，父親說我們可以到白沙瓦去，他在那裏與三個朋友共住一個房間。It was very emotional to see him again.
與父親再次相見，大家都很激動。Then, a complete family once more, we travelled down to Islamabad, where we stayed with the family of Shiza, the lady who had called us from Stanford.
團聚後，我們來到伊斯蘭堡，與西莎——那位從斯坦福大學打電話給我們的女士——的家人待在一起。While we were there we heard that Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the American envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, was holding a meeting in the Serena Hotel about the conflict, and my father and I managed to get inside.
住在那裏的時候，我們聽說美國派駐巴基斯坦及阿富汗的特使理查德·霍爾布魯克先生將就近日所發生的衝突事件，在塞雷娜飯店舉辦一場會議。我和父親想辦法得以出席。We almost missed it as I hadn't set the alarm properly so my father was barely speaking to me.
因爲我忘了調好鬧鐘，搞得我們差點遲到，父親氣得幾乎不跟我搭話。Holbrooke was a big gruff man with a red face but people said he had helped bring peace to Bosnia.
霍爾布魯克是一名高大、強壯、滿臉通紅的男人，人們說他曾爲波斯尼亞帶來了和平。I sat next to him and he asked me how old I was.
我坐在他的旁邊，他問我幾歲。“我十二歲。”'I am twelve,' I replied, trying to look as tall as possible.
我回答他，同時想辦法讓自己看起來更高些，'Respected Ambassador, I request you, please help us girls to get an education,' I said.
“尊貴的大使先生，我請求你，請幫助我們女孩獲得接受教育的權利。”He laughed. 'You already have lots of problems and we are doing lots for you,' he replied.
他大笑起來。“你們已經存在太多的問題，而我們也爲你們做了很多，”他回答，'We have pledged billions of dollars in economic aid; we are working with your government on providing electricity, gas . . . but your country faces a lot of problems.'
“我們已經爲你們注入了幾十億美金作爲經濟救援；我們跟你們的政府合作，爲你們提供電力、燃氣……但你們的國家面臨着太多問題。”
