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The diplomatic round could easily have been his life.
外交談判可能很容易成為他的生活。
Since he had done business studies in America and spoke pretty good English, he became an adviser to the Saudi ambassador in London and Washington.
哈蘇吉因為在美國做過商業(yè)研究，英語流利，所以成為了沙特駐倫敦和華盛頓大使的顧問。
He had connections with the leaders of Turkey and France, and friends everywhere.
他與土耳其領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人、法國領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人以及世界各地的朋友們都有聯(lián)系。
In his newspaper years in Jeddah he loved to mingle with foreign journalists, but there was nothing treasonous in this.
在吉達做記者的幾年里，他喜與外國記者交際，但這并非叛國。
He could put on several personas, squeezing his bulky form into a natty suit in London
他是一個外交多面手，在倫敦，他將自己塞進筆挺的西裝；
and a polo shirt in Washington
在華盛頓，可能套著馬球衫；
as well as the flowing white thawb he favoured in the Gulf.
在海灣，則會穿著他最喜歡的阿拉伯長袍。
His comments on the condition of Saudi Arabia avoided bile or gossip, even when he had enjoyed a drink or two.
凡是涉及沙特阿拉伯的言論，即使是喝了一兩杯酒，哈蘇吉都會避免犀利言辭或八卦緋聞。
In mid-conversation with non-Muslims he would often break off and disappear to pray.
哈蘇吉在與非穆斯林交談時，常會停下來，消失去祈禱。
He was observant, but had little taste for the 18th-century Salafi Wahhabism that haunted his country.
他善于觀察，但對困擾著他的國家的18世紀薩拉菲-瓦哈比主義卻沒什么興趣。
In his youth he had joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a counterweight to puritanism, and found it a strange contradiction that Saudi Arabia,"the mother of all political Islam", should want to attack it.
年輕時，他加入了穆斯林兄弟會——清教主義的制衡，且發(fā)現(xiàn)一個奇怪的矛盾，即沙特阿拉伯，這個“政治伊斯蘭教之母”，竟意圖攻擊伊斯蘭教。
For him the Brotherhood was about democracy, even a liberation movement.
對哈蘇吉而言，兄弟會關(guān)乎民主，甚至是一場解放運動。
In the same way he flirted openly with Saudi Arabia's arch-rival, Qatar, deeply admiring the Al Jazeera news network he hoped to imitate at home.
同樣，哈蘇吉公開和沙特阿拉伯的勁敵卡塔爾國表示親密，表明自己非常欣賞半島電視臺，希望自己在沙特也能創(chuàng)建相似節(jié)目。
To attack Qatar was to try to crush all expressions of the Arab spring.
而攻擊卡塔爾是為了試圖粉碎阿拉伯之春的所有言論。
Like so many others, he felt it keenly when that movement flowered and died.
哈蘇吉和許多人一樣，那樣的運動盛放和消亡時，都敏銳地感覺到了。
Liberalism seldom seemed to enter his life.
他的生活很少出現(xiàn)自由主義。
Growing up in Medina, he saw no women working outside the home.
哈蘇吉自幼在沙特城市麥地那長大，從未見過女性離開家出去工作。
Teenage trips to the makeshift cinema risked exciting the religious police;
青少年冒著惹火宗教警察的風(fēng)險去臨時電影院；
one friend broke his leg as he jumped from a wall to escape arrest.
一位朋友在逃脫追捕時從墻上跳下來摔斷了腿。
Freedom of speech would be a long haul.
言論自由之途道阻且長。
He tried to focus, therefore, on more pressing economic problems:
因此，他試圖把重點放在更緊迫的經(jīng)濟問題上：
the fact, in particular, that the country’s vast petro-wealth was being squandered on private enrichment,
特別值得一提的是，實際上沙特巨大的石油財富都因私人斂財浪費了，
not schools, medium-size enterprises and proper gathering of statistics.
而不是用在學(xué)校、中型企業(yè)和適當(dāng)?shù)慕y(tǒng)計數(shù)據(jù)收集上。
The latest book he wanted to write was all about that, not Islamist revolution.
哈蘇吉最近要寫的新書就是關(guān)于這一問題的，而非伊斯蘭革命。
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