qatarprince世界杯谢赫莫扎卡塔
提起中东地区,可能大家的印象都已被这样的新闻头条占据:
Yemen’s PM condemns ‘treacherous, cowardly’ Aden airport attack
也门总理谴责亚丁机场爆炸事件,不久前也门政府新内阁成员刚乘机抵达该机场
Syrian soldier killed in Israeli raid near Damascus
以色列空袭叙利亚首都大马士革,士兵阵亡
语言知识点:
Condemn: 谴责 Eg: The editor of the newspaper was condemned as lacking integrity. 这家报纸的主编被指责为不够正直。
Treacherous:(人,事)阴险,不可信,Eg:Treacherous guy 阴险小人;Treacherous words 阴险的谎话
Raid:突袭,打劫 Eg:Bombing raid on enemy bases 炸弹突袭敌军基地;
但其实,除开几个战乱国家,中东不少国家也是摩登现代,富裕繁华的。这并不奇怪,毕竟中东地区坐拥天量石油资源。在这些富裕国家之中,卡塔尔必然榜上有名,不仅仅是因为该国人均收入超过15万美元,全国没有一个乞丐,其皇太后(Consort)“谢赫·莫扎(Moza bint Nasser)”的彪悍逆袭史更是给这个国家增添了几分传奇色彩。
”叛臣之女“,海外流亡
Sheikha Mozah is the daughter of Nasser bin Abdullah al-Misnad. Al-Misnad was critical of the former monarch, and made public appeals for a more equitable distribution of wealth amongst the Qatari citizenry, leading to his arrest and imprisonment. Many of her family members fled to Kuwait.
小时后,父亲因为前国家首脑哈利法政见不合,而被送进监狱。小莫扎和家人也不得不流亡海外,并且背上了“阶下囚”之女的骂名。
Sheikha Mozah met her husband while studying at Qatar University; they married in 1977 in what appears to have been a love match.
The pretty Qatari commoner who caught the crown prince's eye all those years ago has transformed herself over time into a royal wife the likes of which the conservative Arab region has never seen before.
流亡海外的日子,莫扎并不放弃,虽然总是被嘲笑“阶下囚”的女儿,但是仍然把自己活出了精彩。1977年,随家人返回卡塔尔后,靠着自己满身的自信,不凡的谈吐,独到的见解,成为大学里的风云人物,而光芒万丈,耀眼生辉的莫扎自然也让卡塔尔的王储,哈马德对她一见钟情,不久后王储便向她求婚。
语言知识点:
Be critical of: 对…不满,对…持批评态度 Eg:Tom's parents were highly critical of the school. 汤姆的父母对学校提出了强烈的批评
Make public appeals: 公开呼吁 appeal 呼吁,恳求
Citizentry vs Citizen 前者是市民/公民的统称,后者指单个的公民/市民
Love match: (自由)恋爱结婚 Eg: Their marriage is a love match. 他们是自由恋爱结的婚。
The likes of:类似…的人/事 Eg:the like of us 像我们这样的人
为爱忍辱负重 一路乘风逆袭
平民,“叛臣”之女出身,可想而知莫扎在皇室的生活并不会顺利。
比如婚礼上不允许莫扎父母出现,在婚礼红毯的尽头,公公也只对她说了句“认清你的位置”。
幸运的是,丈夫哈马德仍然全心全意的爱着她,支持她的一切想法。
1985年,哈马德甚至以政治联姻为交换(莫扎是哈马德第二位妻子),为莫扎争取到了家族资金投资管理的权利。至此,这个女人开始了自己开挂的人生,通过买买买一路打造起卡塔尔的全球资产帝国,赚地盆满钵满。
钱袋子拿稳了,下一步就是权力之巅的王位了:1995年,趁着公公在国外度假,直接和老公发动政变,逼迫公公退位。王妃直接摇身变皇后。
Sheikh Hamad took power from his father via a bloodless coup in 1995. Sheikh Hamad's wife (well, one of his wives, the one that is his public consort) is Sheikha Mozah.
骄傲且自信的莫扎,就是要向所有人证明,她担得起这个位置。
掌权之后,之前想做的事就可以大快赶上了,比如为外国务工人员改建公共交通系统,为受家暴妇女提供避难场所,改革高等教育,全民免费医疗等等。
Mozah seems to be doing everything all at once – from improving public transportation for foreign workers to the establishing the region's first battered women's shelter to reforming the higher education system, building non-Muslim public places of worship, sponsoring public debates, and serving as a UNESCO special envoy.
然而她说,这一切,都是受到她丈夫的启发,她看到了,也读懂了丈夫的心。
"I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents ... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation," she says in an interview with the Monitor. "We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen."
"We believe," explains Mozah, always using "we," "... that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings ... that will enable Qatar to build up its society.
从此之后,没有我,只有“我们”,一起来共同打造让让国民更加有获得感,在国际社会更有地位和话语权的中东之国-卡塔尔。
语言知识点:
take power:夺权,其实用“seize power”更能把政变夺权哪位表达出来,take相对而言是比较中性的词汇
Bloodless coup: 不流血政变
Consort:(统治者)配偶
By design: 可以为之,有意地
半生辉煌,权力之巅
2013年6月25日,哈马德发表电视讲话,宣布即日起将王位传给王储塔米姆·阿勒萨尼(他与莫扎的儿子,而非与大老婆的嫡子,就是这么明白的偏爱),至此,莫扎也正式成为卡塔尔的皇太后,走向自己人生的权利巅峰,完成了一出完美的人生逆袭。
莫扎和哈马德的爱情为人称道,也许王储对于莫扎是始于颜值,但二人最终都终于人品,也只有两个相似的灵魂,才能并肩与对方站在雪山之巅,共谱辉煌。
最后来吃一记狗粮:女性地位极低的中东国家,身为国王的哈马德亲自给自己老婆提鞋穿鞋,这柠檬我吃的真牙酸~~
参考:
https://www.sohu.com/a/284849064_773812
https://www.dkpearla.com/blog/a-woman-to-queen-a-stone-to-pearl/
https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/faq/sheikha-mozah-bint-nasser-al-misnad
https://www.sohu.com/a/308074952_798664
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/03/qatar-boasts-massive-global-holdings--here-are-some-of-its-headline-assets.html
http://news.sohu.com/20130625/n379829597.shtml
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