本拉登也是學霸！《紐約時報》曝光拉登書單

To join Al Qaeda in Osama bin Laden’s day, prospective recruits had to take an arduous and risky journey to the network’s haven in the mountains of northwestern Pakistan, the heartland of global Islamist militancy.
想在奧薩馬·本拉登時代加入基地組織的話，得千辛萬苦歷經風險纔有望到達組織的港灣——巴基斯坦西北部的山區裏這一全球伊斯蘭武裝分子活躍的心臟地帶。

Then they had to fill in an application.
他們還得先填一份申請書。

The three pages of questions show how Al Qaeda, in its vision of itself as a disciplined network of committed militants, blended the mundanely bureaucratic with the frighteningly absurd.
申請書的問題長達三頁，問題提得武斷專橫又荒唐駭人，顯示了基地組織欲建構一支忠貞不二且紀律嚴明的好戰分子隊伍的願景。

The application, which was among nearly 80 documents and other materials, including books and press clippings, seized from Bin Laden’s compound during the raid by Navy SEAL members in May 2011.
這份申請在將近80份文件資料裏找到的，其他還有書籍和剪報，均爲海豹突擊隊2011年5月剿拉登駐地時繳獲。

The material offers the deepest look yet into Bin Laden’s final years, much of which he appears to have spent sending missives to his subordinates, seeking to direct a terror network that appeared to have grown far beyond his control, and working his way through a pile of books that ranged from sober works of history and current affairs to wild conspiracy theories spun by anti-Semites.
這些資料清晰展現了拉登最後的歲月。拉登末年似乎一直在和部下通信，力求指揮一個他似乎已無力掌控的恐怖主義網絡。他末年也努力讀書，這堆書有嚴肅理智的歷史著作和時事新聞、也有反猶分子所著瘋狂大膽的陰謀論。

It was the list of books found in Bin Laden’s compound that garnered the most interest Wednesday. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which managed the release, seized on Bin Laden’s reading list to promote it, titling the web page listing all the now-public material “Bin Laden’s Bookshelf.”
最奪人眼球的是週三發現的拉登書單。美國國家情報總監辦公室抓住拉登的書目不放，大力宣傳，並把現行所有的資料發佈在網上，冠以“拉登的書架”之名。

Some of the books would be familiar to anyone interested in global affairs, such as “Obama’s Wars,” by Bob Woodward; “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,” by Paul Kennedy; and “Imperial Hubris,” by Michael Scheuer, the former official who once ran the Central Intelligence Agency’s Bin Laden desk.
對於熱衷於國際事務的人而言，有些書想必耳熟能詳，如鮑勃·伍德沃德所著《奧巴馬的戰爭》、保羅·肯尼迪的《大國興衰》、以及邁克·疏勒所寫《帝國的傲慢》。疏勒以前是中央情報局負責拉登調查的政府官員。

Other titles hinted at a paranoid worldview fostered by conspiracy theory classics such as “Bloodlines of the Illuminati,”by Fritz Springmeier, and “The Secrets of the Federal Reserve,”by Eustace Mullins, a Holocaust denier.
其他書目直指拉登偏執狂想的世界觀，這都拜他閱讀陰謀論的經典所賜，如弗里茲·斯普林梅爾的《光明會的血統》和否認大屠殺的尤斯塔斯·馬林斯所撰寫的《美聯儲的祕密》等。

He also kept scanned copies of Arabic newspapers. His English-language media diet seems to have leaned toward international news — six copies of Foreign Policy magazine were found in the compound — and articles about Al Qaeda, such as one from The Los Angeles Times in 2005, “Is Al Qaeda Just Bush’s Boogeyman?”
拉登還掃描收藏了阿拉伯語報紙。拉登對英語語言媒體的喜好似乎傾向於國際新聞——在他的院子發現了6本他收藏的《國際關係》，還有若干有關基地組織的文章，如刊登在2005年《洛杉磯時報》上《基地組織是布什總統的夢魘嗎？》一文。

Bin Laden was either fascinated or frustrated by computers, or both, with more than two dozen instructional manuals for programs such as Adobe Photoshop and hardware like Intel circuit boards.
計算機方面，拉登或是爲之深深着迷、或是滿滿的挫敗感，或是兩者皆有之吧，他收藏了足足24本計算機程序手冊，有些涉及Adobe的照片處理，還有些是有關因特爾電路板硬件設備的。

And he was apparently engrossed by France: He had 19 stories, essays and books about the country.
拉登顯然癡迷於法國，他收集了19個關於法國的故事、散文和書籍等。

The review, which began in May 2014, is expected to continue through the summer and into the fall, said Jeffrey S. Anchukaitis, a spokesman for the intelligence office. But the White House asked that office and the C.I.A. to begin releasing material immediately because of “the increasing public demand to review those documents,”he said.
資料審查工作始於2014年5月，預計要歷經今年夏秋兩季才收官，情報總監辦公室發言人傑弗裏·安丘凱提斯如是說。但白宮要求情報總監辦公室和中央情報局立馬公開材料，稱“因公衆要求審閱這些文件的要求日益強烈”。

Much of what came out of the compound remains classified, and the latest release brings to 103 the total number of documents from the raid that are now publicly available.
大部分來自拉登住所的資料至今仍保密，最近這次資料一共公開了103份自襲擊後的文件。