VOA慢速英語：世界上最長壽老人117歲生日，每日食用2枚生雞蛋

The oldest living person celebrated a birthday earlier this week.
本周早些時間，世界上最長壽的老人慶祝她的生日。
Emma Morano celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday.
本周二，艾瑪·莫拉諾慶祝她的117歲生日。
Friends, neighbors and her doctor joined Morano in her small apartment home in the northern Italian mountain town of Verbania.
朋友、鄰居和她的醫(yī)生參加了在意大利山區(qū)小城韋爾巴尼亞的公寓房內(nèi)的生日派對。
She blew out three candles on her birthday cake. Each candle represented a number in her age.
她吹滅了在生日蛋糕上的三支蠟燭。每只蠟燭代表了她年齡的三個數(shù)字。
“I hope I don’t have to cut it,” Morano joked.
“我希望我不需要切蛋糕”莫拉諾開玩笑道。
“She dressed up and she was very proud,” said her long-time doctor, Carlo Bava. “She posed for a photographer, and even asked if her hair looked good.”
她的長期陪同的醫(yī)生卡羅·巴瓦說：“她精心打扮并且很驕傲”。“她擺姿勢拍照甚至詢問她的頭發(fā)看起來是否很好”
“I am happy to turn 117,” Morano told those attending her party. She received agreeting from Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella. He wished her peace and continued good health.
莫拉諾告知參加她生日派對的人說：我很高興慶祝117歲生日。她收到了意大利總統(tǒng)塞吉奧·馬塔雷拉的祝福。他希望她平安健康。
Emma Morano is thought to be the last living person born in the 1800s. She outlived all her brothers and sisters, including one who died at age 102.
艾瑪·莫拉諾被認(rèn)為是最后一位出生于19年代的人。她比她所有的兄弟姐妹壽命都長，其中包括一位死于102歲的。
Her doctor noted that when Morano was young, people used to say she was weak and often sick. “Yes, yes,” she said.
她的醫(yī)生指出：當(dāng)莫拉諾年輕的時候，人們曾經(jīng)說她很虛弱并且經(jīng)常生病。她連說“是的是的”。
The world’s oldest person told the Reuters news agency that while she is lucky to have lived so long, parts of her life were “not so nice.” She worked in a factory until she retired at age 65.
世界上最長壽的老人告訴路透社“大家覺得她是很幸運的，能夠生活這么久，但是她的大部分人生并不是那么美好的”她在一家工廠上班，65歲退休。
Morano once told a reporter that the first man she planned to marry was killed in World War One. Then, at age 26, she was forced to marry a man she did not love. She said the man threatened to kill her if he did not marry her.
曾經(jīng)，莫拉諾告知記者，她的第一位未婚夫在第一次世界大戰(zhàn)中被殺害。那時，她26歲，她被迫嫁給一位她不愛的人。她說：如果她不嫁給他，那男人就威脅她，會將她殺死。
She had a son, but the baby died after just six months. She said the marriage was not happy and her husband was abusive. She kicked him out in 1938 and has lived alone since then.
她有一個兒子，但是這個嬰兒在六個月后死去了。她說：婚姻不是幸福的，因為她的丈夫經(jīng)常辱罵她。她和他在1938年離婚，從那以后就獨居。
Emma Morano says one of her secrets to living long is eating at least two uncooked eggs every day. Her doctor credits Morano’s long life to her unusual diet, her genes and positive outlook on life.
艾瑪·莫拉諾說：她長壽的其中一個秘密是：每天吃兩個生雞蛋。他的醫(yī)生認(rèn)為她長壽的原因歸結(jié)于她不尋常的飲食，她的基因和積極樂觀的人生觀。
I’m Bryan Lynn.
布萊恩·林報道。