雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第20章:誰是馬拉拉?(2)
The time of year I prayed Most was during exams.
It was the one time when my friends and I did all five prayers a day like my mother was always trying to get me to do.
那是我和我的朋友們唯一會做完整五次禱告的時候，就像我的母親以前經常要求我做的那樣。I found it particularly hard in the afternoon, when I didn't want to be dragged away from the TV.
我發現下午的禱告最難堅持，因爲我不想被迫放棄正在看的電視節目。
At exam time I prayed to Allah for high marks though our teachers used to warn us, 'God won't give you marks if you don't work hard.
考試期間，我會向阿拉祈求高分，但老師常警告我們：“如果你們不用功，真主不會賜給你們高分。God showers us with his blessings but he is honest as well.'
真主會降福在我們身上，但他也是剛正不阿的。”So I studied hard too.
所以我還是會努力唸書。Usually I liked exams as a chance to show what I could do.
通常，我喜歡把考試視爲一個驗證自己能力的機會。But when they came round in October 2012 I felt under pressure.
但在2012年的10月，這些“機會”變成了壓力。I did not want to come second to Malka-e-Noor again as I had in March.
我不希望3月份的情形重演，輸給瑪麗克·努爾，屈居第二。Then she had beaten me by not just one or two marks, the usual difference between us, but by five marks!
然而這次，她竟然一舉多出我五分！I had been taking extra lessons with Sir Amjad who ran the boys' school.
爲準備這次考試，我下了苦功。考試之前，我請男子學校部的主管阿姆傑德先生幫我額外補課。The night before the exams began I stayed up studying until three o'clock in the morning and reread an entire textbook.
考試的前一天，我熬夜學習到凌晨三點，把整本教科書全部複習了一遍。The first paper, on Monday, 8 October, was physics.
第一科考試，是在10月8日，星期一，科目是物理。I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws – no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly those in my country.
我鍾愛物理，因爲它關乎真理，是一個由原理與定律所掌管的世界，既不雜亂無章，也不像政治那樣會扭曲、變形——好比那些發生在我們國家的事情一樣。
