Hi 各位英语爱好者～今天是5月12日国际护士节，也是弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔（Florence Nightingale）的生日。

你知道吗？

这位被全世界致敬的“提灯女神”（the Lady with the Lamp），不仅是护理学鼻祖，还是个精通多门语言、会做数据可视化的“全能学霸”！

今天用中英双语带你了解她的传奇人生👇。

英文摘自“柯林斯名人故事集”《了不起的医护人员》，以第一人称视角讲述人物生平故事。

🌸名字里的浪漫：Florence × NightingaleFlorence：来自她的出生地——意大利文艺之都佛罗伦萨，意为“繁荣、芬芳”Nightingale：本义是夜莺，文学里既象征哀愁，也代表爱、自由和对美好生活的向往My first name comes from a beautiful Italian city and my second name comes from a beautiful bird.🎓叛逆富家千金：拒绝议员求婚，偏要当护士1820年，南丁格尔出生在英国富裕家庭，自幼天资聪颖。

父亲格外重视她的学业，亲自教导她历史、哲学、文学。

她在语言和数学方面天赋卓绝，年少时便能熟练读写法语、德语、意大利语、希腊语以及拉丁语。

图源：Britannica父母只希望她嫁人、持家，但17岁那年，她做了一个“离经叛道”的决定：“我要当护士。

”When I was 17 years old, I decided that I wanted to work as a nurse.要知道，那时候护士地位低下、所处环境脏乱、被人看不起，根本不是“大家闺秀”该做的事。

她顶住全家反对：◆ 拒绝一名英国议员的求婚。

I didn’t want to marry anyone.◆ 辗转多地养病，但仍坚定地要做一名护士。

In 1850, my family sent me to Egypt because my health was still not good. They hoped that warm, dry weather could help me. While I was there, I made some decisions about my future. I had no more doubts. I wanted to be a nurse.◆ 赴德国Kaiserswerth护士学院接受正规培训。

The next year I went back to Kaiserswerth. I began my training there.💡战地之光：the Lady with the Lamp 提灯女神1854年，克里米亚战争爆发。

英军战地医院条件极差：糟糕的卫生条件，没有干净的饮用水。

士兵大多不是死于受伤，而是死于感染。

Many men were dying there, but their wounds weren’t killing them. Diseases were killing them.南丁格尔带着38名护士奔赴前线。

In October 1854, I took 38 other female nurses to Scutari, a town which is now part of Istanbul, in Turkey. Many wounded and sick British soldiers were in the British military hospital there. 她们做了这些关键改变：1. 狠抓卫生，清洁伤口、更换绷带；2. 要求提升医院的卫生状况；3. 深夜提灯巡视，温柔照料每一位伤员。

We began our nursing work and we washed the men’s wounds and asked for better hygiene in the hospital. We changed their bandages regularly, and always kept new, clean ones for them. We were fighting a war within a war – a war against infections.I often visited the men late at night. I carried a lamp and I looked carefully at each of my patients. People called me ‘the lady with the lamp’ – and they remembered that name for the rest of my life.从此，the Lady with the Lamp传遍欧洲，成为温暖与希望的代名词。

📊 隐藏技能：她还是统计学家！

你知道吗？

南丁格尔是顶尖应用统计学家，发明了著名的南丁格尔玫瑰图（Nightingale Rose Diagram）！

图源：www.vanderbilt.edu她用一张图，清晰告诉英国政府：士兵高死亡率，主要源于卫生条件差，而非战争创伤。

用数据推动医疗改革，挽救了无数生命。

The war had shown that the people in charge of the army had important medical problems to think about. I needed to support my ideas about hygiene, so I became a statistician.1858年，她成为英国皇家统计学会会长，是该学会首位女性会长。

🏫 开创现代护理：建立第一所正规护士学校1859年，南丁格尔写下著作：Notes on Nursing《护理札记》Notes on Hospitals《医院札记》1860年，南丁格尔用慈善基金在伦敦圣托马斯医院创办南丁格尔护士学校。

Before I left Scutari, a Nightingale Fund had been established. A large amount of money – £45,000 – was given to this fund. I used the money to establish The Nightingale School of Nursing. This school opened in London in 1860.从此，护理从“体力活”变成专业学科，护士成为受人尊敬的职业。

南丁格尔与护士学校毕业生🎖️ 她留下的精神，至今照亮世界1910年，南丁格尔在伦敦去世，享年90岁。

两年后，南丁格尔奖章设立，成为全球护理界最高荣誉。

Two years after my death, a Florence Nightingale medal was created. It was given to nurses who did important work.南丁格尔奖章而5月12日，也被定为国际护士节（International Nurses Day），致敬这位改变世界的女性。

🌟 致敬每一位守护生命的你今天，不只纪念南丁格尔，更致敬所有坚守岗位、专业又勇敢的护士。

你们就是当代的提灯女神，用专业与爱，照亮人间。

❤️ Happy International Nurses Day!

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