By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid
(Filed: 12/10/2001)
PHOTOGRAPHS of Osama bin Laden visiting Oxford in 1971 have come to light after a Spanish woman found them in an old picture album.
一位西班牙妇女从一本旧像册中找到了奥萨马-本-拉登在1971年游历牛津时的照片。
One of the photographs has been published in a Spanish newspaper and shows the 14-year-old bin Laden with two of his brothers beside two glamorous Spanish girls when they all attended a language course in Oxford.
其中的一张刊登在西班牙一家报纸上，照片上14岁的本-拉登和他两个哥哥站在两个迷人的西班牙姑娘身边，其时他们都在牛津学习一门语言课程。
The woman to whom the photographs belong had made diary notes alongside them, describing bin Laden as a "sunny child" who had a "maternal-platonic" relationship with her friend.
拥有这些照片的那名妇女当年还在旁边记了简短的日记，称本-拉登是一个“阳光男孩”，与她的女友有着“柏拉图式恋母情结”的关系。
She also recalled him saying his mother was a concubine and lamenting that his brothers were from different mothers.
她还回忆到，拉登说过他的母亲是一个小妾，并为他的兄弟出自不同的母亲而叹息。
After a 30-year interval, the woman only recognised bin Laden in her photographs when she saw a widely-publicised picture showing him on holiday with his family in the same year.
事隔30年后，当她见到一张广为发表的摄于同年的拉登与其家人度假的照片时，这位妇女方能认出当年的拉登。
The photograph, first published in the newspaper El Correo Espanol, shows bin Laden and his brothers with the Spanish girls - who asked for their faces to be blurred. The girls are dressed in mini skirts and flared trousers and have their arms draped over the boys' shoulders.
在那张首次公布在“El Correo Espanol”报的照片上，拉登及其兄弟与西班牙姑娘在一起 - 她们要求将她们的面部模糊处理。姑娘们身着迷你裙和喇叭裤，手臂搭在男孩们的肩上。
His two older brothers were 17, while bin Laden can be seen as a gangly teenager with an open and slightly unsure smile. The photograph was taken in an Oxford park where the woman remembered going for a walk one afternoon after taking tea.
拉登的两个哥哥时年17岁，他则是一个身材瘦长、脸上挂着坦诚而略显不自信的笑容的少年。相片摄于牛津的一个公园，这位妇女记得当时她们是用过下午茶后散步来到这儿的。
In other as yet unpublished photographs, bin Laden is shown punting a boat, while another is of the group having a picnic.
在另一张未发表的相片上，拉登在用力撑船，还有一张是在这些人野餐时拍的。
The woman said it was difficult to recall a meeting 30 years ago but in the scribbled notes she says that bin Laden was markedly different from his brothers, one of whom bought pop records and the other paid close attention to fashionable clothes.
这位女子说很难回忆起30年前这样一次聚会，不过在潦草的笔记中她描述拉登与他的兄弟们显著不同，他的一个哥哥喜欢买流行音乐唱片，另一个对时装十分着迷。
He was "well-mannered and quite deep for his age", she said. "He told us that his mother was very beautiful and that this was why she had caught the attention of his father".
他“举止有礼，深沉得与他的年龄很不相称”，她说。“他告诉我们他的母亲很美丽，这也是她博得他父亲欢心的原因。”
She remembered bin Laden's sadness when telling how the three brothers had different mothers and that his mother was not a "wife of the Koran" but a "concubine".
她还记得拉登说起兄弟三人出自不同母亲时的悲伤表情，还说到他的母亲不是一个“合乎《古兰经》教义的妻子”，而是一个“妾”。
She added that bin Laden was a "tender guy" and that "he complimented my friend saying she was as beautiful as his mother. I think he needed confidantes and that is why we were fond of him".
她又说拉登是个“柔弱的男孩”，“他夸我的女友和他的母亲一样美丽。我想他需要一个知心的女友，这是我们喜欢他的原因。”
The woman also said that the bin Laden boys were introduced to the two Spanish girls "as they came from a country where customs were more strict than those prevalent in London at the time".
这位妇女还说之所以介绍拉登兄弟给两个西班牙姑娘，“是因为他们来自一个社会准则比当时的伦敦严厉得多的国家。”
"We thought they were Saudi princes. They invited us to go for a row on the Thames. We were older than them and it amused us that they wanted to pay to hire the boats," said the woman.
“我们以为他们是沙特王子。他们邀请我们到泰晤士河上划船。我们比他们岁数大，可他们提出付租船的钱，这使我们感到很好笑。”她说。
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