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在阿拉伯这个男权社会，女性往往被忽视甚至不平等对待。但即便在这种情况下，演讲者还是闯出了自己的一片天地，并和大家分享关于她的成功经验。
n. 董事，经理，主管，指导者，导演
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- "Mom, who are these people?"
- “妈妈，这些人是谁?”
- It was an innocent question from my young daughter Alia around the time when she was three.
- 这是来自我小女儿Alia的天真的疑问，大概是在她三岁的时候。
- We were walking along with my husband in one of Abu Dhabi's big fancy malls.
- 我们正与我丈夫走在一块，在阿布扎比的某一间大型豪华购物中心中。
- Alia was peering at a huge poster Alia standing tall in the middle of the mall.
- 仔细端详着立在购物中心中央的巨幅海报。
- It featured the three rulers of the United Arab Emirates.
- 它标示着三位阿拉伯联合酋长国的统治者。
- As she tucked in my side,
- 当她拽着我的衣角，
- I bent down and explained that these were the rulers of the UAE
- 我弯下身然后描述着这就是阿拉伯联合酋长国的统治者，
- who had worked hard to develop their nation and preserve its unity.
- 他们很努力地发展他们的国家，保持他们的团结性。
- She asked, "Mom, why is it that here where we live,
- 她问说:“妈妈，为什么这里，我们住的地方，
- and back in Lebanon, where grandma and grandpa live,
- 和黎巴嫩，爷爷跟奶奶住的地方，
- we never see the pictures of powerful women on the walls?
- 我们从没有看过在墙上有厉害的女人的图片？
- Is it because women are not important?"
- 这是因为女人不重要吗?”
- This is probably the hardest question I've had to answer in my years as a parent
- 这大概是我身为父母以及16年多的职业生涯中
- and in my 16-plus years of professional life, for that matter.
- 曾回答过的最困难的问题了。
- I had grown up in my hometown in Lebanon,
- 我在我的家乡黎巴嫩(Lebanon)长大，
- the younger of two daughters to a very hard-working pilot
- 是两个女儿中的小女儿，父亲是努力工作的飞行员，
- and director of operations for the Lebanese Airlines
- 同时也是黎巴嫩航空的操作总监。
- and a super-supportive stay-at-home mom and grandma.
- 有个超级顾家的母亲与祖母。
- My father had encouraged my sister and I to pursue our education
- 我的父亲很鼓励我们求学，
- even though our culture emphasized at the time
- 即使我们的文化，特别强调在那个时间点，
- that it was sons and not daughters who should be professionally motivated.
- 那是只有儿子而不是女儿应该要被启发的(职业积极性)。
- I was one of very few girls of my generation who left home at 18 to study abroad.
- 我是在我那个年代极少数女孩的其中一个在18岁离开家出国念书。
- My father didn't have a son, and so I, in a sense, became his.
- 我的父亲没有儿子，所以，在某种意义上来说，我变成了儿子。
- Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I hope I didn't do too badly in making my father proud of his would-be son.
- 快转数十年，我希望我没有做得太差，在让我父亲以他试图打造的“儿子”为傲的方面。
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