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贾兰穆拉罕怒目准备提出反驳，但我父亲已经受够了。

The mufti started to object but my father had had enough .

贾兰穆拉罕明显对此很不高兴，因为他想逼学校关门大吉。

The mullah clearly wasn 't happy as he wanted the school closed altogether .

父亲告诉那名职员，下次如果再看到贾兰穆拉罕，就打电话给他。

My father told the clerk to call him next time he saw the maulana .

这样的局势改变，让贾兰穆拉罕胆大妄为了起来。

That changing climate made Ghulamullah bold .

我们知道一件贾兰穆拉罕不知道的事，就是他自己的侄女也秘密地在我们学校上课。

What we knew and they didn 't was that the mufti 's own niece attended the school in secret .

贾兰穆拉罕没有能够成功迫使我们关闭学校，但他的干涉显示了我们国家的改变。

The mufti had failed to close our school but his interference was an indication of how our country was changing .

研究负责人、墨尔本大学的西蒙•拉罕博士说，人们对名字简单的人普遍持更正面的看法。

Dr Simon Laham , from Melbourne University , who led the study , said people with simple names were generally judged more positively .

“贾兰穆拉罕已经开始鼓吹反对你了。”他警告道，“我们不会把大楼租给他，但是你们还是要小心。”

This maulana is starting a campaign against you , " he warned . ' We won 't give him the building but be careful . "

一年一度的感恩节庆祝在丰收后举行，但它成为一个全国性节日是在总统乔治.华盛顿（在1789年）以及艾伯拉罕.林肯（在1863年）的执政期间。

The custom of an annual thanksgiving celebration held after the harvest continued but it became a national observance under Presidents George Washington ( in 1789 ) and Abraham Lincoln ( in 1863 ) .

贾兰穆拉罕曾是塔布里·扎马特的一员，他们是德奥班迪派的一个团体，每年都会在拉合尔附近，莱文德的总部举办一场很盛大的集会，数百万人会前往参加。

The mufti on Khushal Street was a member of Tablighi Jamaat , a Deobandi group that holds a huge rally every year at its headquarters in Raiwind , near Lahore , attended by millions of people .

贾兰穆拉罕没有成功说服我们的房东太太终止租约。之后的某天晚上，他聚集了一些地方颇有影响力的人来到我们家门口，包括几位资深塔布利吉派的人、一位清真寺的长老、一位前圣战士和一位店老板。

One night , after the mufti had failed to persuade our landlady to cancel our lease , he gathered some of the influential people and elders of our mohalla into a delegation and turned up at our door .

有一天，学校里一名男职员送一位女老师到大路上搭三轮车，贾兰穆拉罕问道：“为什么这个男人送她去路上，他是她的兄长吗？”

He said that one day , when a male member of staff took a female teacher out to the main road to get a rickshaw , the maulana asked , ' Why did this man escort her to the road , is he her brother ? "