追风筝的人是真实的吗 残忍而美丽的情谊:The Kite Runner 追风筝的人(25)

残忍而美丽的情谊:The Kite Runner 追风筝的人(25)  

We crossed the residential street and were trekking through a barren patch of rough land that led to the hill when
suddenly
a rock struck Hassan in the back. We whirled around and my heart dropped. Assef and o of his friends
Wali and Kamal
were approaching us.
Assef was the son of one of my father's friends
Mahmood
an airline pilot. His family lived a few streets south of our Home
in a posh
high-walled pound with palm trees. If you were a kid living in the Wazir Akbar Khan section of Kabul
you knew about Assef and his famous stainless-steel brass knuckles
hopefully not through personal experience. Born to a German mother and Afghan father
the blond
blue-eyed Assef towered over the other kids. His well-earned reputation for savagery preceded him on the streets. Flanked by his obeying friends
he walked the neighborhood like a Khan strolling through his land with his eager-to-please entourage. His word was law
and if you needed a little legal education
then those brass knuckles were just the right teaching tool. I saw him use those knuckles once on a kid from the Karteh-Char district. I will never fet how Assef's blue eyes glinted with a light not entirely sane and how he grinned
how he "grinned"
as he pummeled that poor kid unconscious. Some of the boys in Wazir Akbar Khan had nicknamed him Assef "Goshor"
or Assef "the Ear Eater.?Of course
none of them dared utter it to his face unless they wished to suffer the same fate as the poor kid who had unwittingly inspired that nickname when he had fought Assef over a kite and ended up Fishing his right ear from a muddy gutter. Years later
I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was
a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist:"sociopath."
Of all the neighborhood boys who tortured Ali
Assef was by far the most relentless. He was
in fact
the originator of the Babalu jeer
"Hey
Babalu
who did you eat today? Huh? Come on
Babalu
give us a smile!" And on days when he felt particularly inspired
he spiced up his badgering a little
"Hey
you flat-nosed Babalu
who did you eat today? Tell us
you slant-eyed donkey!"
在那些折磨阿里的男孩中，阿塞夫远比其他人来得恶毒。实际上，人们用"巴巴鲁"来嘲弄阿里，他正是始作俑者。喂，巴巴鲁，你今天吃了谁啊?哦?来吧，巴巴鲁，朝我们笑一笑。在那些他觉得特别来劲的日子，他会加油添醋：喂，你这个塌鼻子巴巴鲁，今天吃了谁啊?告诉我们，你这头细眼睛的驴子!
Now he was walking toward us
hands on his hips
his sneakers kicking up little puffs of dust.