I went to Afghanistan in 2005 to work on a Financial Times piece, and there I met Kamila, a young women who told me she had just turned down a job with the international community that would have paid her nearly $2,000 a month -- an astronomical sum in that context.
我2005年去到阿富汗 做财经时报的一篇报道， 我遇到了一位年轻的女性卡米拉， 她告诉我， 她才谢绝了 一份与国际社会相关的工作 这份工作给她开出了2000美元的月薪 这在当地可是个天文数字。