Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
一九八四年離開出生地伊朗時，安努榭．安沙利仍少不更事，但在此之前很久，她就常仰望星星，並夢想能和星星近距離旅行。

Now at age 40, after an improbable journey that's included learning a new language, earning an engineering degree and starting a telecommunications company that made her rich.
如今，她四十歲，走過不可能的歷程，包括學習一種新語言，拿到工程學位，並開創一家通訊公司後坐擁巨富。

"I've always been fascinated with space and always wondered about the mysteries of space and wanted to be able to experience it firsthand," the Texas woman said in a telephone interview from the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
「我對太空一直心嚮往之，也常常神遊神祕的太空，我希望能有第一手體驗，」這位德州婦女從發射地點哈薩克貝康諾太空中心接受電話訪問時表示。

She says she is eager to see Iran from space.  She hasn't been back since emigrating to the United States and hopes to inspire girls in her homeland to study science. Ansari says she's received e-mail messages from many of them, although her flight has received scant attention in Iran. She is, after all, an American citizen.
她說，她很渴望從太空看看伊朗。自從移民美國之後，她從未返鄉，她也希望激發家鄉的女孩能研讀科學。安沙利說，她接到她們不少人的電子郵件，但她這趟太空之旅，在伊朗幾乎沒有引起什麼人注意。畢竟，她現在是美國人。

Her space ride will cost about $20 million. Ansari can afford it because she and her husband sold their company in 2000 for about $550 million in stock from the acquiring company.
她這趟太空之旅將花兩千萬美元，安沙利付得起這個價碼，因為她和夫婿在二○○○年賣掉公司，並從買方得到五億五千萬美元的持股。

The value of those shares slid from $40 to under $5 as the telecom industry collapsed. But, Hamid Ansari said, "We had enough opportunity to sell enough shares to earn financial independence."
當這家電訊公司倒閉時，那些股票市值從每股四十美元重跌到不到五美元，但哈米德．安沙利說：「我們相機賣了大半持股，才能維持財務獨立。」

The timing of some stock sales led to shareholder accused her of illegal insider trading. The Ansaris declined to comment on the lawsuit. A spokeswoman for the couple said the Securities and Exchange Commission never accused Mrs. Ansari of insider trading.
賣股的時機引起持股人指控她搞非法的內線交易。安沙利拒絕就這些訟案置評。這對夫婦的女發言人說，證管會從未指控安沙利內線交易。

Space-travel enthusiasts hope the Dallas entrepreneur will be an inspiration to a new generation of young women.
對太空旅遊狂熱的人士希望，達拉斯這位女強人能啟發新世代的年輕女性。

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