雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第11章:聰明的班級(16)

What really depressed him was the looting of the destroyed schools – the furniture, the books, the computers were all stolen by local people.

而真正令他感到失望的，是在這些學校被摧毀後所發生的掠奪事件——傢俱、書本、計算機全被當地人搜刮光了。

He cried when he heard this,

當他聽到這些時，忍不住哭了出來。

‘They are vultures jumping on a dead body.’

他說：他們就像是在死屍上蹦跳的禿鷹。

The next day he went on a live show on the Voice of America and angrily condemned the attacks.

第二天，父親參加美國之音的一個現場節目時，憤怒地譴責了這些攻擊行爲。

Muslim Khan, the Taliban spokesman, was on the phone.

塔利班的發言人穆斯林•汗在電話的另一端。

‘What was so wrong with these two schools that you should bomb them?’ my father asked him.

這兩所學校究竟做錯了什麼？你爲什麼要炸掉它們？父親問。

Muslim Khan said that Sangota was a convent school teaching Christianity and that Excelsior was co-educational, teaching girls and boys together.

穆斯林•汗說，桑戈塔是一所教授基督教文化的修道院學校，伊克塞爾希爾學院則沒有分班，男女生在一起上課。

‘Both things are false!’ replied my father.

一派謊言！父親迴應道，

‘Sangota school has been there since the 1960s and never converted anyone to Christianity – in fact some of them converted to Islam.

桑戈塔從1960年創校至今，從未把任何學生變成基督徒。事實上，有些學生甚至還皈依伊斯蘭教。

And Excelsior is only co-educational in the primary section.’

而伊克塞爾希爾學院只有小學部纔是男女合班。