Palestinian Arabic Curriculum — Grade 9, Semester 2 — Page 57

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

عِنْدَمَا عَادَ إِلَى الْمَدْرَسَةِ بَعْدَ سِتَّةِ أَشْهُرٍ عَلِمَ أَنَّ صَدِيقَهُ مُحَمَّداً لَنْ يَعُودَ لِلْمَدْرَسَةِ، فَرَصَاصَةُ الْقَنَّاصِ الَّتِي اسْتَقَرَّتْ فِي رَأْسِهِ أَفْقَدَتْهُ جُزْءاً كَبِيراً مِنْ تَرْكِيزِهِ وَذَاكِرَتِهِ، وَأَبْقَتْهُ أَسِيرَ شَلَلٍ شِبْهِ كَامِلٍ.

When he returned to school six months later, he learned that his friend Muhammad would not be coming back; a sniper's bullet had lodged in his head, robbing him of much of his focus and memory while leaving him almost entirely paralyzed.

لَمْ يَعُدْ يُوسُفُ ذَلِكَ الطِّفْلَ الَّذِي كَانَ يَكْفِيهِ الِانْتِبَاهُ إِلَى شَرْحِ الْمُعَلِّمِ، كَيْ يَحْجِرَ مَرْتَبَةً مُتَقَدِّمَةً بَيْنَ أَوَائِلِ الصَّفِّ، تَرَاجَعَ تَرْتِيبُهُ، لَمْ تَعُدْ كُرَةُ الْقَدَمِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ تَرْقُدُ إِلَى جَانِبِ وِسَادَتِهِ تُرَاوِدُ خَيَالَهُ، ابْتَعَدَتْ عَنْ عَيْنِهِ أَلْعَابُ الْأَتَارِي، أَصْبَحَ كُلُّ هَمِّهِ الْآنَ الِابْتِعَادَ عَنْ بَاقِي أَقْرَانِهِ، تَحَوَّلَتِ الصُّورَةُ أَمَامَهُ إِلَى خَيَالَاتٍ، كُلُّ أَحْلَامِهِ الْآنَ مَحْصُورَةٌ فِي تَغْيِيرِ تِلْكَ الْعَيْنِ الزُّجَاجِيَّةِ الَّتِي زَادَ عُمُرُهَا عَلَى الْعَامَيْنِ، حَتَّى الدَّوَاءُ الَّذِي حَمَلَهُ أَبُوهُ مِنْ مُسْتَشْفَى الرِّيَاضِ الْخَاصِّ بِتَنْظِيفِ بَاطِنِ الْعَيْنِ نَفِدَ، وَلَمْ تُجْدِ مُحَاوَلَاتُ الْأَبِ نَفْعاً فِي سَبِيلِ إِيجَادِهِ أَوْ تَوْفِيرِهِ.

Yusuf was no longer the boy who could stay at the top of his class just by paying attention in lessons. His grades slipped, the football that used to sit by his pillow no longer stirred his imagination, and his interest in video games faded. His only concern now was to distance himself from his peers. The world around him had blurred into phantoms, and all his dreams were pinned on replacing his two-year-old glass eye. Even the medicine his father had brought from a private hospital in Riyadh to clean the eye socket had run out, and all his father's efforts to find more had been in vain.

فَهَلْ يُمْكِنُ أَنْ يَحُوزَ عَلَى عَيْنٍ زُجَاجِيَّةٍ أُخْرَى تَتَنَاسَقُ مَعَ هَيْئَةِ عَيْنِهِ الْبَاقِيَةِ الَّتِي بَدَأَ الضَّوْءُ يَنْحَسِرُ عَنْهَا شَيْئاً فَشَيْئاً؟

Could he ever get another glass eye that matched his remaining one, which was itself slowly losing its sight?

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Vocabulary · المفردات (33 verbs · 70 nouns)

• عَادَ — to return
• عَلِمَ — to know
• اسْتَقَرَّ — to settle
• مَدْرَسَة — school
• شَهْر — month
• صَدِيق — friend