Sultan had already been dead – politically, that is – for the last three years; indeed, since June 2011, when he left for New York for medical treatment, young Saudis speculated on numerous Web sites that this was also literally the case.
从政治意义上说，阿齐兹三年前就已经死了；事实上，从2011年6月他前往纽约接受治疗以来，沙特年轻人就在网络上流传各种阿齐兹身故的传言。