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The Saudi revolution begins
沙特改革大幕已開啟
Muhammad bin Salman could transform the Arab and Islamic world for the better.
沙特阿拉伯王儲(chǔ)穆罕默德·本·薩爾曼，可能會(huì)把阿拉伯和伊斯蘭世界變得更好，
How to ensure he succeeds
該如何確保他能夠成功做到
One Saudi cleric thundered that letting women drive would lead to immorality and alack of virgins.
一位沙特牧師怒聲呵斥，女性開車，傷風(fēng)敗俗，有損女性貞潔。
Another declared that women were incapable of taking the wheel because they were half-brained.
另有一位牧師宣稱，女性沒能力開車，因?yàn)橹巧烫汀?/div>
Still another drew on science, ruling that driving would damage their ovaries.
還有一位牧師引用科學(xué)做出裁斷，開車會(huì)損害女性卵巢。
Such tosh is at last being cast aside.
這樣的胡言亂語，最終還是得靠邊兒站。
On June 24th Saudi women will be allowed to drive their cars.
6月24日，沙特女性將被允許開車上路。
That is one step towards emancipation; among the others must be an end
這是邁向女性解放的重大一步，不過，沙特女性的解放之路，還有很多步要邁出，
to male "guardianship", for example, in deciding women can study or travel abroad.
比如，也必須結(jié)束男性在決定女性能否上學(xué)或出國旅行等方面所擁有的“監(jiān)護(hù)權(quán)”。
Yet getting women behind the wheel is a welcome blow against the idea that Islamic piety is best shown by repressing them.
虔敬的伊斯蘭傳統(tǒng)觀念是壓迫女性，而允許女性開車無疑對(duì)其是一次重?fù)簟?/p>
Female drivers are the most visible aspect of a social revolution,
大街上出現(xiàn)女性司機(jī)，是這項(xiàng)社會(huì)革命最顯著的一個(gè)方面，
one brought about not from the streets
而這項(xiàng)成績(jī)并非源自街頭，
but the palace of Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince.
而是源自沙特王儲(chǔ)穆罕默德·本·薩爾曼的宮殿。
Cinemas have opened;
電影院也開了，
music is performed in public;
公共場(chǎng)所也能表演音樂了，
the killjoy morality police are off the streets.
街上也沒有煞風(fēng)景的道德警察了。
Social liberalisation is part of the crownprince's ambition to wean the economy away from oil.
社會(huì)自由化是王儲(chǔ)薩爾曼試圖讓沙特經(jīng)濟(jì)擺脫對(duì)石油的依賴這套宏大戰(zhàn)略的一部分。
But as our special report sets out, his changes come with more authoritarianism at home,
不過，正如我們本期特別報(bào)道所指出的，王儲(chǔ)薩爾曼所帶來的系列變化，就國內(nèi)來講，帶有很重的威權(quán)主義色彩，
and recklessness abroad.
就國外來說，則顯得有些魯莽不計(jì)后果。
The world must hope that the bold prince triumphs over the brutish one.
整個(gè)世界一定都希望薩爾曼王儲(chǔ)雄心大膽的那一面，將勝過他粗野蠻橫的那一面。
Saudi Arabia is uniquely disliked by Westerners of all politicalstripes.
西方所有的政治派別都不喜歡沙特阿拉伯。
They are appalled by its sharia punishments and mistreatment of women,
西方人震驚于伊斯蘭教法對(duì)婦女的懲罰和虐待，
and scared by its Wahhabi form of Islam,
齒寒于伊斯蘭教瓦哈比教派的形式，
which has fed gruesome jihadist ideologies such as that of Islamic State.
正是這種形式助長了可怕的圣戰(zhàn)意識(shí)形態(tài)，比如伊斯蘭國。
Despite the kingdom's wealth, businessmen would rather work in freewheeling Dubai than Riyadh.
盡管沙特?fù)碛芯揞~財(cái)富，但商人們寧愿在從心所欲的迪拜工作，也不愿在利雅得工作。
Fellow Arabs often deride Saudis as rich, lazy and arrogant.
阿拉伯同胞經(jīng)常嘲笑沙特人財(cái)大氣粗、游手好閑、目中無人。
