Malala

Malala

Malala looks the same today at 14, as she did at 11, like a child. But with each interview she gave to Pakistani and international reporters between 2009 and 2012, she sounded more like an adult.

She rarely showed fear, and she didn't hide her face.

"I have the right of education," she said in a 2011 interview with CNN. "I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up."

Why do you risk your life to raise your voice? a reporter asked her.

In perfect English, she answered that her people need her.

"I shall raise my voice," she insisted.

"If I didn't do it, who would?" she said.

Girls who are scared should fight their fear, she said.

"Don't sit in your bedrooms.

"God will ask you on the day of judgment, 'Where were you when your people were asking you ... when your school fellows were asking you and when your school was asking you ...'Why I am being blown up?'"

節錄自：http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/10/world/malala-yousufzai/ 

導言分析：根據導言所說，馬拉拉雖是個十四歲的女孩(當時)，但藉由在2009~2012這四年之間她在巴基斯坦和國際的面談當中毫不畏怯，這樣的表現已超出她這年齡應該有的成熟態度。

Key words： fellows (n.) 同儕、 enormous (adj.) 巨大的、activist (n.) 活動家
 idealistic (adj.) 理想主義的、contagious (adj.)具傳染性的