双语畅销书《我是马拉拉》第9章:电台毛拉(18)

We children were cross too.

我们这些孩子们也很沮丧。

Normally there are new film releases for the holidays, but Fazlullah had closed the DVD shops.

正常状况下，节日意味着会有新电影看，但法兹鲁拉关闭了所有的DVD店铺。

Around this time my mother also got tired of Fazlullah, especially when he began to preach against education and insist that those who went to school would also go to hell.

差不多就在这时，母亲也逐渐对法兹鲁拉感到厌烦，特别是当他开始宣扬反教育的思想，并坚称上学的人都会下地狱以后。

Next Fazlullah began holding a shura, a kind of local court.

法兹鲁拉的下一步是成立舒拉，一种地方性的法庭。

People liked this as justice was speedy, unlike in Pakistani courts, where you could wait years and have to pay bribes to be heard.

舒拉立即受到民众的欢迎。因为在这里，正义得以迅速声张。

People began going to Fazlullah and his men to resolve grievances about anything from business matters to personal feuds.

人们开始向法兹鲁拉和他的手下们求助，帮助化解各种纷争，无论是商业纠纷还是个人恩怨。

‘I had a thirty-year-old problem and it’s been resolved in one go,’ one man told my father.

我有个三十年的老问题，一下子就解决了。有个男人这样跟我父亲说。

The punishments decreed by Fazlullah’s shura included public whippings, which we had never seen before.

法兹鲁拉的舒拉所宣判的刑罚包括公开的鞭刑，在此之前，我们从来没有听过这种处罚方式。