雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》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.
越來越多的學生來胡沙爾學校求學，我們又搬了一次家，並且終於有了一臺電視機。我最喜歡的電視節目是《夏卡拉卡蹦蹦》（Shaka Laka Boom Boom），這是一個印度兒童節目，講的是有一支神奇鉛筆的男孩子桑竹的故事。他畫的所有東西都會成真。如果他畫的是蔬菜或是一個警察，這個蔬菜或警察就會神奇地出現；如果他不小心畫了一條蛇，那他可以把畫擦掉，這樣蛇也就消失了。他用他的神奇鉛筆幫助其他人，甚至將父母從幫派老大手中救出來。我一心一意想得到那支鉛筆。
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.
晚上禱告的時候我會說：“真主啊，請給我桑竹的鉛筆吧。我不會告訴任何人的。你放在我的櫃子裏就好，我會用它帶給大家快樂的。”禱告一結束，我就會檢查我的抽屜，可神奇鉛筆從來沒有出現過。但是，我已經做出決定，應該先從幫助別人開始。在我們新家那條街上，有塊廢棄的空地，大家都將垃圾丟在那裏。斯瓦特沒有垃圾場。很快，空地成了一座垃圾山。因爲實在太臭，我很不喜歡去那附近。有時，我會看見那附近老鼠亂竄，烏鴉聚集盤旋。
