1.You need to know. I don’t want us to start with secrets. And I’d rather you hear it from me.

你必须知道,我不想我们一开始就有秘密，而且我宁愿亲口告诉你。

2.I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them.

我怀疑,在很多方面，索拉雅. 塔赫里都比我好的多。勇气只是其中之一。

3.He just wants you to be successful.

他只是希望你出人头地。

4.America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past.

美国是河流，奔腾前进，往事无人提起。

5.There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

我生命中有过这么多美好的事情，这么多幸福的事情。我寻思自己怎么能配得上这些。

6.We’re a melancholic people, we Afghans, aren’t we?

我们是忧郁的民族。我们阿富汗人,不是吗？

7.As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told.

就我所知，他从来没有问起过她到哪里去了，而她也没有提起。