It was a warm summer afternoon on 15 August 2021 when the Taliban entered Kabul and changed the lives of millions.(2021年8月15日，一个温暖的夏日午后，塔利班进入喀布尔，改变了数百万人的生活。) Shallah*, then 16, watched the news at home on the Afghan TV channel Tolo news(Tolo新闻). She ran crying to the garden, to tell her mother that Afghanistan had fallen(沦陷).
2021年8月15日，一个温暖的夏日午后，塔利班进入喀布尔，改变了数百万人的生活。当时16岁的沙拉*正在家里收看阿富汗电视台Tolo新闻。她哭着跑到花园，告诉母亲阿富汗已经沦陷。
Her younger sister, Fatimah*, then 11, was at her cousin’s house, where her aunt told her the news. At the time, she says, she did not understand what a takeover(接管) meant, or who the Taliban were. Her elder sister, Maahi*, then 22, was well aware of the consequences and remembers her hands shaking at work as she read the news on her phone, on Facebook pages of Afghan news.(她的姐姐玛希当时22岁，深知后果，她记得自己在工作时用手机刷着Facebook上的阿富汗新闻，双手不停颤抖。)
她的妹妹法蒂玛*当时11岁，正在表姐家，是姑妈告诉了她这个消息。她说，当时她并不明白“接管”意味着什么，也不知道塔利班是谁。她们的姐姐玛希*当时22岁，深知后果，她记得自己在工作时用手机刷着Facebook上的阿富汗新闻，双手不停颤抖。
At that point the three sisters were living thousands of kilometres away in Qom, a city in central Iran, their family having left Afghanistan six years earlier because of the growing violence and a desire for the girls to grow up in peace.(当时，三姐妹住在数千公里外的伊朗中部城市库姆。六年前，由于暴力不断升级，加上希望女儿们能在和平中长大，她们全家离开了阿富汗。) But the family had entered the country illegally and knew they could be arrested or deported(驱逐出境) at any time.
当时，三姐妹住在数千公里外的伊朗中部城市库姆。六年前，由于暴力不断升级，加上希望女儿们能在和平中长大，她们全家离开了阿富汗。但他们是非法入境伊朗的，知道自己随时可能被捕或驱逐出境。