I didn't want to understand that comment, but I did. I understood it all too well. "I have a wife in America, a Home, a career, and a family. Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you'd have me risk everything for……?I stopped.
"You know,?Rahim Khan said, "one time, when you weren't around, your father and I were talking. And you know how he always worried about you in those days. I remember he said to me, 『Rahim,a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.?I wonder, is that what you've become??
我不想明白他話中的機鋒，但是我清楚，我太清楚了."我在美國有妻子、有房子、有事業、有家庭.喀布爾是個危險的地方，你知道的，你要我冒著失去一切的危險，就為了……"我停住不說.
"你知道嗎，"拉辛汗說，"有一次，你不在的時候，你爸爸和我在說話.而你知道他在那些日子裡最擔心的是什麼.我記得他對我說，『拉辛，一個不能為自己挺身而出的孩子，長大之後只能是個懦夫.』我在想，難道你變成這種人了嗎？"
A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
在這句話中，stand up for和stand up to，這兩個短語，需要我們辨析一下：
一、stand up for表示「支持、擁護、捍衛」等意思。
例如：They stood up for what they believed to be right.
（他們捍衛了他們認為正確的東西。）
Girls who have always been at a mixed school know how to stand up for themselves.
（一直在男女混合學校上學的女孩子們知道如何自我保護。）
二、stand up to 表示「經得起 ； 勇敢地面對 ； 勇敢面對 ； 頂得住」
例如：
Is this building going to stand up to the strongest gales?
（這座建築能經得住最強勁的大風嗎？）
Stand up to the bully and he won't dare to hurt you.
（勇敢地面對那個混混，以後他就不敢再傷害你了。）
經過辨析我們發現，這兩個短語在含義上是有所區別的，翻譯句子時要注意。