普什图族在世界上是出了名的最大部落社会。
The Pashtuns are, famously, the largest tribal society in the world.
普什图族的人口是由自然的方式挑战他们在生活中的外观。
The Pashtun population is challenging by nature in the way they look at life.
周围邻居告诉我说他们唯一接触过的大院里的人就是来自白沙瓦的普什图族两兄弟。
Neighbours say the only people they ever really had contact with were two brothers: Pashtun's, they said, from Peshawar.
这可能是因为很少有普什图族少男少女私奔,或者更可能地,是因为当他们私奔时更可能被杀掉。
That could be because few Pushtun lads and lasses elope or, more likely, because they are more likely to be killed when they do.
在巴基斯坦一侧的地区,沿着边境从奎达向东北方延伸到兹霍布市都是普什图族部落聚居地。
Areas on the Pakistan side stretching north-eastwards along the border from Quetta to the town of Zhob are inhabited by Pashtun tribes.
正如我们看到的那样,去年,普什图族的首领在广泛征求部族内部的意见后提出了一个方案,目的就在于此。
As it happens, a blueprint for achieving this was prepared last year by Pushtun notables after extensive consultation with tribal councils.
此外,假如支持率不高,那么严峻的安全形势可能导致卡尔扎伊选举重镇——南部普什图族聚居地的失守。
Moreover, insecurity could deprive Mr Karzai of votes in his electoral stronghold, the ethnic-Pushtun south—assuming ballot-boxes are unstuffed.
这是一片停留在过去的土地:这里几乎没有路,电也是稀罕物,整个普什图族部落的社区生活数千年来从未改变。
This is a land stuck in the past: there are few roads, electricity is scarce, and entire communities of ethnic Pashtun tribesmen live as they have for millenniums.
巴鲁其族在这座城市中占少数,占大多数的是阿富汗最大的民族——普什图族,这使得阿富汗人很容易溶入基达的社会。
The ethnic Baluch are in a minority in the city, which is dominated by Pashtuns, the biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan, making it easy for Afghans to melt into Quetta.
巴基斯坦战争区,如果仅仅靠实行干扰信号、没收设备的政策,就会让当地的普什图族(Pushtuns)(译注8)心生不满,因为收音机对他们来说至关重要。
In Pakistan's war zones, a policy based purely on jamming, and confiscating kit, would upset local Pushtuns, for whom radio is a vital medium.
在英国殖民的那段时间,普什图族(Pashtun)的领土被杜兰德线(Durand Line)分割,并且导致了阿富汗和英属印度以及后来出现的巴基斯坦的紧张关系。
During period of British intervention, ethnic Pashtun territories were divided by the Durand Line; such a division led to strained relations between Afghanistan and British India and later, Pakistan.
此前几年来,马尔瓦特一直同邻族、另一个普什图小部落巴塔尼(Bhattani)存在世仇。
For several years previously, the Marwat had been feuding with their neighbours, the Bhattani, another small Pushtun tribe.
在这片地势崎岖的艰苦之地居住有300多万人,沿着600公里(合375英里)长的边界,普什图(Pushtun)族控制下的巴基斯坦西部地区同由普什图人控制的阿富汗东部地区之间已经界限模糊。
More than 3m people live in this rugged region, where the ethnic-Pushtun-dominated west of Pakistan blurs into the Pushtun-dominated east of Afghanistan along a 600km (375-mile) border.
在这片地势崎岖的艰苦之地居住有300多万人,沿着600公里(合375英里)长的边界,普什图(Pushtun)族控制下的巴基斯坦西部地区同由普什图人控制的阿富汗东部地区之间已经界限模糊。
More than 3m people live in this rugged region, where the ethnic-Pushtun-dominated west of Pakistan blurs into the Pushtun-dominated east of Afghanistan along a 600km (375-mile) border.
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