熱淚盈眶的印度人75年後在巴基斯坦受到歡迎
【摘要2022-12-11日.自由】◎林雨萱
Reena Varma’s family had left Rawalpindi
in 1947, weeks before the partition which led to the creation of two
independent nations, India and Pakistan.
麗娜．瓦瑪一家人1947年離開拉瓦平第，在導致印度和巴基斯坦這兩個獨立國家成立的分治的幾週之前。
Ms Varma never stopped thinking about her
childhood home.
瓦瑪小姐從未停止思念童年時期的家。
In 2021, she became a social media
sensation in India and Pakistan after she spoke longingly of the house she had
left behind in an interview.
2021年，她在一場訪談熱切地講述之前拋下的房子，之後便在印度和巴基斯坦社交媒體造成轟動。
Activists from a Facebook group called
India-Pakistan Heritage Club started looking for her old home in Rawalpindi and
finally a female journalist found it.
臉書團體「印度巴基斯坦遺產俱樂部」的積極分子開始尋找她在拉瓦平第的舊家，最後被一位女記者找到。
India and Pakistan have been involved in a
number of wars and conflicts since the partition and relations between the
South Asian nuclear rivals are mostly hostile.
自分治以來，印度和巴基斯坦捲入多次戰爭和衝突，且這兩個南亞核武對手間的關係充滿敵意。
Her story caught the eye of a Pakistani
minister, who instructed the country’s high commission in Delhi to immediately
process her application.
她的故事引起一位巴基斯坦部長的注意，隨後指示該國駐德里的高級專員公署立即處理她的申請。
"My heart is grieving but I’m
thankful to be around to experience a moment I’ve been waiting for a lifetime,"
she said.
她說：「我傷心哀痛，但是我對於即將經歷等了一輩子的這刻心存感激」。
新聞辭典
partition：名詞，（國家）分治。例句：The
partition of Germany occurred after the war. (德國戰後分裂。)
sensation：名詞，轟動一時的人事物。例句：The
movie caused a sensation through the nation then. (這部電影當時造成整個國家的轟動。)
longingly：副詞，極度渴望地。例句：Annie
gazes longingly at the clothes through shop windows. (安妮極度渴望地盯著展示窗內的衣服。)
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