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佛罗伦萨•南丁格尔的诞辰Florence Nightingale’s Birthday

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【英文原文】

May 12 Florence Nightingale’s Birthday

In 1837,to the age of seventeen,Florence Nightingale decided to become a nurse,which horrified1) her whimsical2) mother.In those days,nurses were little more than janitors3),and hospitals were pits of squalor and neglect.Nightingale pressed on,and in 1853she became superintendent4) of a small London hospital.She went on to the Crimea when war broke out there between Britain and Russia.She established the first of what we now know as war hospitals:sanitary,safe,and stocked with supplies.Her tireless ministrations to the wounded soldiers made her famous all over the world.Following the war,Nightingale avoided fame and continued to train nurses,ever battling against what she herself declared“a commonly received idea...that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love,or incapacity5) in other things,to turn a woman into a good nurse.”Since 1921,her birthday has been the centerpiece of National Hospital Week,observed in British and American hospitals with special exhibitions,workshops,and publicity drives.

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disappointment [.disə'pɔintmənt]

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n. 失望,令人失望的人或事

 
publicity [pʌb'lisiti]

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n. 公众的注意,宣传,宣扬,宣传品,广告

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drives

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n. 驱动器;驱动力;驱动程序(drive的复数形式)

 
whimsical ['wimzikəl]

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adj. 心情浮动的,反覆无常的,古怪的

 
established [is'tæbliʃt]

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adj. 已被确认的,确定的,建立的,制定的 动词est

 
neglect [ni'glekt]

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vt. 忽视,疏忽,忽略
n. 疏忽,忽视

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squalor ['skwɔlə]

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n. 肮脏,脏污,不干净

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