双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第6章1:垃圾山的孩子

6 Children of the Rubbish Mountain

6 垃圾山的孩子

AS THE KHUSHAL School started to attract more pupils, we moved again and finally had a television. My favourite programme was Shaka Laka Boom Boom, an Indian children’s series about a boy called Sanju who has a magic pencil. Everything he drew became real. If he drew a vegetable or a policeman, the vegetable or policeman would magically appear. If he accidentally drew a snake he could erase it and the snake would disappear. He used his pencil to help people – he even saved his parents from gangsters – and I wanted that magic pencil more than anything else in the world.

越来越多的学生来胡沙尔学校求学，我们又搬了一次家，并且终于有了一台电视机。我最喜欢的电视节目是《夏卡拉卡蹦蹦》（Shaka Laka Boom Boom），这是一个印度儿童节目，讲的是有一支神奇铅笔的男孩子桑竹的故事。他画的所有东西都会成真。如果他画的是蔬菜或是一个警察，这个蔬菜或警察就会神奇地出现；如果他不小心画了一条蛇，那他可以把画擦掉，这样蛇也就消失了。他用他的神奇铅笔帮助其他人，甚至将父母从帮派老大手中救出来。我一心一意想得到那支铅笔。

At night I would pray, ‘God, give me Sanju’s pencil. I won’t tell anyone. Just leave it in my cupboard. I will use it to make everyone happy.’ As soon as I finished praying, I would check the drawer. The pencil was never there, but I knew who I would help first. Just along the street from our new house was an abandoned strip of land that people used as a rubbish dump – there is no rubbish collection in Swat. Quickly, it became a rubbish mountain. I didn’t like walking near it as it smelt so bad. Sometimes we would spot rats running through it and crows would circle overhead.

晚上祷告的时候我会说：“真主啊，请给我桑竹的铅笔吧。我不会告诉任何人的。你放在我的柜子里就好，我会用它带给大家快乐的。”祷告一结束，我就会检查我的抽屉，可神奇铅笔从来没有出现过。但是，我已经做出决定，应该先从帮助别人开始。在我们新家那条街上，有块废弃的空地，大家都将垃圾丢在那里。斯瓦特没有垃圾场。很快，空地成了一座垃圾山。因为实在太臭，我很不喜欢去那附近。有时，我会看见那附近老鼠乱窜，乌鸦聚集盘旋。