马拉拉成人礼：开办难民女校

　　Celebrating her first day as an adult Sunday, 18-year-old Nobel Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai did the gift-giving — a girls school for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

　　周日，诺贝尔和平奖得主马拉拉·优素福·扎伊（Malala Yousafzai）迎来了自己的18岁生日。为庆祝自己正式长大成人，马拉拉送出一份大礼：为黎巴嫩的叙利亚难民开办了一所女子学校。

　　"I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets," Yousafzai said in a speech "on behalf of the world's children."

　　马拉拉在"代表全球儿童发声"的一次演讲中曾说道：“我呼吁各国领导人在书本而不是武器上投资。”

　　When she was 15, Yousafzai was shot and seriously wounded by the Pakistani Taliban for advocating girls' education. After recovering, she continued her defiant¹ advocacy, which led last year to her becoming the youngest Nobel laureate ever.

　　马拉拉15岁时便因为倡导女孩受教育权而被巴基斯坦塔利班组织严重射伤。康复后，她又继续义无反顾地坚持自己的道路。去年，马拉拉成为诺奖有史以来最年轻的得主。

　　马拉拉成人礼：开办难民女校

　　She told Reuters she chose to open the school in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley "because I believe that the voices of the Syrian refugees need to be heard, and they have been ignored for so long."

　　她对路透社记者说，自己之所以会在黎巴嫩的贝卡谷地开办学校是“因为我相信叙利亚难民的声音需要被聆听，他们已经被忽视太久了。”

　　Lebanonis hosting more than a quarter of the estimated 4 million Syrians who have fled the country's civil war, including about 500,000 school-age children.

　　据估计，因内战逃离国家的叙利亚难民有400万，其中有着约50万学龄儿童。黎巴嫩聚集着超过1/4的叙利亚难民。

　　The school, near the Syrian border, can accommodate up to 200 girls ages 14 to 18. It was paid for by Yousafzai's non-profit Malala Fund.

　　这所学校临近叙利亚边界，可容纳200名14岁至18岁的女孩，由马拉拉所创办的非盈利马拉拉基金会投资修建。

　　The student body shared birthday cake and sang songs, bringing the Nobel laureate to tears.

　　学生们一起分享生日蛋糕，齐声歌唱，使这位小诺奖得主掉下眼泪。

　　Gunmen shot Yousafzai on a school bus. It emerged last month that eight of the 10 militants² charged in the 2012 attack were acquitted³ and not sentenced to life in prison as reported in April.

　　2012年，马拉拉在校车上遭塔利班武装分子枪击。上个月，被指控参与袭击马拉拉的10名激进分子中的8名无罪释放，并非4月份报道所称的终身监禁。

1 defiant   

adj.无礼的，挑战的

参考例句：

• With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时，仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
• He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

3 acquitted   

宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（自己）作出某种表现

参考例句：

• The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
• Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。