起初，怜悯的念头帮助我度过了那段艰难时光。但真正的宽恕会不会是斯德哥尔摩综合征的一种形式？
At first the idea of mercy was something that helped me through the ordeal. But would real forgiveness be a form of Stockholm syndrome?
我认识的穆罕默德·塔希尔是一名温和的海盗，在2012年我成为人质的最初几个月里，他负责监督一队守卫。我曾前往索马里报道该国海岸附近现代海盗爆发的情况。在第10天，在该国中心加尔卡约附近的一条尘土飞扬的道路上，我被海盗绑架。接下来的两年半时间里，我一直被关押为人质。
I knew Mohamed Tahlil as a gentle pirate who oversaw a team of guards during the first months of my life as a hostage in 2012. I had travelled to Somalia to report on the outbreak of modern piracy off the coast. On the 10th day, along a dusty road near Galkayo, in the centre of the country, I was kidnapped by pirates. For the next two and a half years, I was a hostage.
我大部分时间都躺在一间尘土飞扬的房间地板上的薄薄、被汗水浸湿的泡沫垫上。虽然被关押的简陋混凝土牢房会有所变化，但肮脏的环境和处境始终未变。有时我的绑匪会把我转移到索马里的草原上——在那里我们露宿露天，睡在地面上——而在长达六个月的一段时间里，我被关押在一艘被劫持的金枪鱼渔船上，船上还有28名在我登船前大约三周被捕的东亚渔民。
I spent most of my time on a thin, sweat-soaked foam mattress on the floor of a dusty room. The dim concrete prison houses changed, but the filth and the circumstances didn’t. Sometimes my captors moved me into the Somali savannah – where we camped in the open and slept on the ground – and for a six-month stretch, I was held on a hijacked tuna vessel, where I joined 28 fishers from east Asia who had been captured about three weeks before I was placed on board. (They had captured me on land, but they were a pirate gang, organised to capture ships at sea.)
（他们是在陆地上抓到我的，但他们是一个有组织的海盗团伙，专门在海上劫持船只。）在每一个地点，海盗守卫们会围坐着拿着AK-47收听广播，或者嚼食kat，一种具有麻醉作用的植物。
In each location, pirate guards would sit around with AK-47s and listen to the radio, or else chew khat, a narcotic plant.