2014年10月23日星期四
Malala's journey from near death
to the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2014
By Ben Brumfield, CNN
On Friday, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. But just a day earlier, she passed
the two-year anniversary of the gruesome event that flung her and her cause
onto the world stage -- the attempt on her life.
Bullets struck Malala
in the head and neck. Doctors fought to save her life, then her
condition took a dip. They operated to remove a bullet from her neck,
and extracted a piece of skull to relieve pressure on Malala's brain because of
swelling. After surgery, she was unresponsive for three days. It
was nothing short of a miracle that the teen blogger, who fought for the right
of girls to get an education, was still alive and even more astounding that she
suffered no major brain or nerve damage. Less than three months after
being gunned down, she was discharged from the hospital to continue her
rehabilitation at her family's new home.
Beyond her hospital room, a world sympathetic
to her ordeal has transformed her into a global symbol for the fight to allow
girls everywhere access to an education. Around the world, the young
blogger became a poster child for a widespread need to permit girls to get an
education.
Malala spoke to CNN last year about her blog
and her brave assertion that girls should go to school. "I have the
right of education," she said. "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." Her writing earned her Pakistan 's
first National Peace Prize and encouraged young people to take a stand against
the Taliban -- and to not hide in their bedrooms.
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Keywords：
1. flung v.甩
2. skull n.頭骨
3. bullet n.子彈
4. extract v.提取
5. ordeal n.考驗
6. astound v.震驚
7. assertion n.斷言
8. rehabilitation n.復原
9. discharge v.排出;放;卸貨
10. unresponsive a.反應遲鈍的
