双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第11章:聪明的班级(3)

We did another paper at school to see who would get the prize and again we got equal marks.

我们在学校又参加了另一次笔试，来决定谁能赢得最后的大奖，但我们又一次平手。

So people wouldn’t think I was getting special treatment, my father arranged for us to do papers at another school, that of his friend Ahmad Shah.

后来，当我们在另一所学校——我父亲的朋友艾哈迈德•沙赫的学校再次笔试时，人们不再觉得是父亲为我争取到了特殊待遇。

Again we got the same, so we both got the prize.

我们再次同分，因此双双获奖。

There was more to school than work. We liked performing plays.

在学校里，我们不仅刻苦学习，还喜欢表演话剧。

I wrote a sketch based on Romeo and Juliet about corruption.

在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的剧本基础上，我创作了一出与贪腐有关的短剧。

I played Romeo as a civil servant interviewing people for a job.

我扮演的罗密欧是一名负责面试的公职人员。

The first candidate is a beautiful girl, and he asks her very easy questions such as, ‘How many wheels does a bicycle have?’ When she replies, ‘Two,’ he says, ‘You are so brilliant.’

第一位应试者是一个美丽的女孩，罗密欧只问了她一些非常简单的问题，例如：脚踏车有几个轮子？当她回答两个时，他就说你很聪明。

The next candidate is a man so Romeo asks him impossible things like, ‘Without leaving your chair tell me the make of the fan in the room above us.’ ‘How could I possibly know?’ asks the candidate.

第二位应试者是一个男人，罗密欧问了他一些根本没有办法回答的问题，比如在不离开你的座位的前提下，告诉我楼上那间房里的风扇是什么材质？我怎么可能会知道？应试者回答。

‘You’re telling me you have a PhD and you don’t know!’ replies Romeo.

你说自己有博士学位，但你竟然连这个都不知道！罗密欧这么回答。

He decides to give the job to the girl.

他决定把这份工作给那个女孩。