诺贝尔和平奖的最年轻获奖者马拉拉能改变巴基斯坦

2014-10-14 11:35:50来源：可可英语

　　Though Malala Yousafzai is 17, she does not useFacebook or even a mobile phone lest she lose focuson her studies. She spent her summer vacationflying to Nigeria to campaign for the release ofgirls kidnapped by the extremist Islamist groupBoko Haram, but also worrying about her grades,which recently took a worrisome dip. She confrontedPresident Obama about American drone policy in ameeting last year, but finds it difficult to befriendher fellow students in Birmingham, England.

　　马拉拉·优萨福扎伊(Malala Yousafzai)今年17岁，但她不上Facebook，就连手机也不用，以免自己在学业上分心。暑假期间，她乘机前往尼日利亚，为被极端伊斯兰组织“博科圣地”(Boko Haram)绑架的女孩获释而奔走，同时，她也为自己成绩近期出现的恼人下滑而担忧。去年在一个会议上，她直面奥巴马总统，批评美国的无人机政策，但她发现在英国伯明翰，很难和同学们交朋友。

　　“I want to have fun, but I don’t quite know how,” she wrote in the edition of herautobiography for young readers.

　　“我想开心地玩，但我不知道如何做到，”她在为年轻读者写的一版自传中说。

　　On Friday, Ms. Yousafzai became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — grouped inthe same pantheon as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa, and yet still astudent at Edgbaston High School for Girls, where she was summoned out of her chemistryclass to hear the news.

　　上周五，优萨福扎伊成为了诺贝尔和平奖的最年轻获奖者，得以与牧师小马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther KingJr.)博士和特蕾莎修女(Mother Teresa)位列同一个神殿之中;她是艾吉巴斯顿女子中学(Edgbaston HighSchool for Girls)的学生，正在上化学课时，被叫出课堂，被告知了这个消息。

　　Ms. Yousafzai began campaigning for girls’ education at the age of 11, three years before shewas shot by the Taliban. She was so young that some observers questioned how well equippeda child of that age could be to put her own safety on the line and commit to a life of activism.The prize she received on Friday validates what she has taken on, but also underscores thedisproportionate expectations that trail her: Can she truly influence the culture of her homecountry of Pakistan, which she cannot even visit because of threats to her safety, and wheremany revile her as a tool of the West? Ms. Yousafzai may be an Anne Frank-like figure whodefied terror, showed extraordinary courage and inspires hope, but how much can oneteenager accomplish?

　　优萨福扎伊11岁时开始参加维护女童受教育权益的活动，三年前，她遭到塔利班枪击。她当时如此年少，一些观察家质疑，对于把自己的安全置之度外，投身于维权运动，那么小的孩子做好了多大的准备。本周五她获得的奖项，是对她的努力的认可，但同时也突显了她所承载的格外巨大的期望：她能对祖国巴基斯坦的文化产生真正影响吗?因为人身安全受到威胁，她甚至无法踏足那里，很多巴基斯坦人辱骂她是西方的工具。优萨福扎伊可能是安妮·弗兰克(Anne Frank)式的人物，她们无惧于恐怖行径，展现了非凡勇气，激发了人们的希望，但一个不到二十岁的人，能取得多大成就?

　　“Can she actually create systemic change at this young age? Can she create a movement?Because she doesn’t have that kind of infrastructure in Pakistan at the moment,” Vishaka Desai,a professor of international relations at Columbia, said in a telephone interview.

　　“她这么年轻，真的可以带来系统性的变化吗?她可以发起一个运动吗?在巴基斯坦，她目前可没有那种根基，”哥伦比亚大学国际关系教授丁文嘉(Vishaka Desai)在接受电话采访时说。

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