雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第9章:電臺毛拉(3)

In our valley we received most of our information from the radio because so many had no TV or are illiterate.

因爲大部分人家裏都沒有電視或是不識字，居住在河谷地區的人們主要靠收音機來獲得信息。

Soon everyone seemed to be talking about the radio station.

很快，每個人的話題似乎都繞着這個電臺打轉。

It became known as Mullah FM and Fazlullah as the Radio Mullah.

它以毛拉FM廣爲人知，法茲魯拉則成了電臺毛拉。

It broadcast every night from eight to ten and again in the morning from seven to nine.

它的播送時間是每天晚上8點到10點，隔天早上7點到9點重播。

In the beginning Fazlullah was very wise. He introduced himself as an Islamic reformer and an interpreter of the Quran.

電臺建立之初，法茲魯拉相當聰明，他介紹自己是伊斯蘭教的改革者和《古蘭經》的詮釋者。

My mother is very devout, and to start with she liked Fazlullah.

我的母親十分虔誠，剛開始時她很欣賞法茲魯拉。

He used his station to encourage people to adopt good habits and abandon practices he said were bad.

法茲魯拉利用電臺的影響力，鼓勵人民培養好習慣，同時摒除他認爲的惡習。

He said men should keep their beards but give up smoking and using the tobacco they liked to chew. He said people should stop using heroin, and chars, which is our word for hashish.

他認爲男人應該蓄鬍須，同時戒菸，以咀嚼菸草的方式替代；他告誡人們應該停止吸食海洛因和希哈什[2]。

He told people the correct way to do their ablutions for prayers – which body part to wash first.

他告訴人們在做祈禱前應該如何正確地淨身——從身體的哪個部位開始清洗。

He even told people how they should wash their private parts.

他甚至教導人們如何清洗他們的私處。