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Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is 36 years old and has led his country for almost five years. [qh]
沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼今年36岁，已经领导国家近5年。 [qh]
His father, the 86-year-old King Salman, has rarely been seen in public since 2019, and even MBS—as he is universally known—has faced the world only a few times since the pandemic began.[qh]
他的父亲、86岁的萨勒曼国王自2019年以来很少在公共场合露面，即使是大家所熟知的穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼，自疫情开始以来也只出现在世人面前几次。 [qh]
Once, he was ubiquitous, on a never-ending publicity tour to promote his plan to modernize his father’s kingdom. [qh]
曾经，他无处不在，无休止地巡回宣传他的计划，宣传他让父亲的王国现代化的计划。[qh]
But soon after the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, MBS curtailed his travel. [qh]
但在《华盛顿邮报》专栏作家贾迈勒·卡舒吉2018年被谋杀后不久，穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼缩减了行程。 [qh]
His last interview with non-Saudi press was more than two years ago. [qh]
他最后一次接受非沙特媒体采访是在两年多以前。 [qh]
The CIA concluded that he had ordered Khashoggi’s murder, and Saudi Arabia’s own prosecutors found that it had been conducted by some of the crown prince’s closest aides. [qh]
美国中情局得出结论，是他下令谋杀了卡舒吉，沙特阿拉伯自己的检察官发现，这件事是由王储的一些最亲密的助手实施的。 [qh]
They are thought to have dismembered Khashoggi and disintegrated his corpse.[qh]
人们认为他们杀害了卡舒吉并肢解了他的尸体。 [qh]
MBS had already developed a reputation for ruthlessness.[qh]
穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼已经有了冷酷无情的名声。 [qh]
In 2017, he rounded up hundreds of members of his own family and other wealthy Saudis and imprisoned them in Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel on informal charges of corruption. [qh]
2017年，他逮捕了数百名自己的家族成员和其他富有的沙特人，以非正式的腐败指控将他们关押在利雅得的丽思卡尔顿酒店。 [qh]
The Khashoggi murder fixed a view of the crown prince as brutish, thin-skinned, and psychopathic. [qh]
卡舒吉谋杀案使人们对这位王储的看法固定下来，认为他残忍、敏感、精神变态。 [qh]
His father’s eventual death will leave him as the absolute monarch of the birthplace of Islam and the owner of the world’s largest accessible oil reserves.[qh]
他父亲的最终去世将使他成为伊斯兰教发源地的绝对君主，并拥有世界上最大的可开采石油储量。 [qh]
He will also be the leader of one of America’s closest allies and the source of many of its headaches.[qh]
他还将成为美国最亲密盟友之一的领导人，也是美国许多头疼问题的根源。 [qh]
I’ve been traveling to Saudi Arabia over the past three years, trying to understand if the crown prince is a killer, a reformer, or both—and if both, whether he can be one without the other.[qh]
在过去的三年里，我一直在沙特阿拉伯旅行，试图了解这位王储是一个杀手，还是一个改革者，或者两者都是——如果两者都是，他是否可以只做一个人而非另一个人。 [qh]
Even MBS’s critics concede that he has roused the country from an economic and social slumber.[qh]
即使是穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼的批评者也承认，他已经把国家从经济和社会的沉睡中唤醒。 [qh]
In 2016, he unveiled a plan, known as Vision 2030, to convert Saudi Arabia from—allow me to be blunt—one of the world’s weirdest countries into a place that could be called normal.[qh]
2016年，他公布了一项名为“2030愿景”的计划，旨在将沙特阿拉伯从——恕我直言——世界上最怪异的国家之一——转变为一个正常的国家。[qh]
