英语美文名人励志故事27:弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔——“提灯女神”无私奉献的故事
27. Florence Nightingale, Pioneer of Modern Hospital Nursing
27. 弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔——现代医疗护理的先驱
In the early nineteenth century, hospitals were not as good as they are now, and nurses were careless and poor in knowledge. A great many soldiers died of wounds and fever because the doctors were not skillful enough to cure them.
在19世纪早期，医院并不像现在这么好，护士们粗心大意而且知识贫乏。很多士兵死于伤口和发烧，因为医生没有足够的专业技能来医治他们。
When Miss Nightingale was a little girl, she used to like playing with her dolls and pretending to nurse them. When she grew up, she used to visit the poor people near her house and look after them when they were ill. She wanted to be a nurse, but her father said, "Look at the woman who do nursing in the hospital. I don't want you to be like that!" He had plenty of money and let Florence travel to many other countries. Wherever she went she visited hospitals and worked in them herself. Then she was placed in charge of a small hospital. Later, she went to learn nursing in Germany and France.
当南丁格尔女士还是个小女孩的时候，她常常喜欢和她的玩具一起玩儿，假装照顾它们。当她长大了，她常探望她房子附近的穷人，在他们生病时照顾他们。她想要成为一名护士，但是她的父亲说：“看看那些在医院里做护士的女人，我不想让你像她们一样!”他拥有很多钱，让弗洛伦斯去很多其他国家旅行。无论她去哪里，她都要去参观医院，并且自己去那里工作一段时间。之后她负责管理一个小的医院。再后来，她去德国和法国学习护理。
Miss Nightingale worked all day to see that the wounded soldiers were well looked after and properly nursed. Every night she walked around the hospital with a small lamp, visiting the patients. The soldiers were pleased to see her. They gave her the name of "The Lady of the Lamp". She and her nurses saved hundreds of lives and she stayed at the hospital until the war was over.
南丁格尔女士整日工作来保证受伤的士兵能够得到很好的照料和恰当的护理。每天晚上她都提着一盏小灯在医院里四处走动，探访病人们。士兵们很乐意看见她。他们称她为“提灯女神”。她和她的护士门拯救了数以百计的生命，她一直待在医院里直到战争结束。
After the war she returned to England and was honored for her services by Queen Victoria. But Florence said that her work had just begun. She raised money to build the Nightingale Home for Nurses in London. She started to train nurses in hospitals. Soon all the big hospitals in England had their own training schools for nurses. Hospitals became clean and cheerful places and nurses were much more skillful. She also wrote a book on public health, which was printed in several countries. Today, nurses all over the world remember "The Lady of the Lamp".
战争结束后她回到了英国并且被维多利亚女王嘉奖。但是弗洛伦斯说她的工作只是个开始。她筹集资金在伦敦为护士们建立了“南丁格尔之家”。很快所有英国的大医院有了他们自己专门的护士训练学校。医院成为了一个干净而且令人感到愉快的地方，护士们也更加专业了。她还写了一本关于公共卫生的书在若干个国家印刷。今天，全世界的护士都记得“提灯女神”。
Florence died at the age of ninety, still trying to serve others through her work as a nurse. lndeed, it is because of her that we honor nurses today.
弗洛伦斯寿终于90岁，仍然试图以护士的身份来服务他人。事实上，正是因为她我们今天才这么尊敬护士。
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