Doing this alone could render one's daughters unmarriageable. So one of Tostan's most critical roles today is to lessen the stigma by getting whole communities and others into which they might marry to jointly declare an end to cutting.

单独这样做可能会使一个人的女儿无法结婚。因此，托斯坦今天最关键的角色之一就是通过让整个社区和他们可能嫁入的其他人共同宣布结束切割来减轻耻辱感。

She was deemed unmarriageable by the respectable men in town. When she met and married my grandfather—a good-natured young man just out of the navy—she dedicated herself to constructing the perfect family, or at least the appearance of it.

镇上没有一个体面的男人会考虑娶她为妻。她认识并嫁给了我外公——一个刚从海军退役的好脾气的年轻人。婚后她便致力于构建一个完美家庭，至少外表上如此。