中英雙語新聞:現(xiàn)實版拇指姑娘

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Tiny Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley stands just over three feet tall and weighs the same as a two-year-old.
    小小只的約迪·茹爾丹-布羅姆利站起來僅3英尺高,跟2歲的孩子一樣重。
    The 12-year-old was born weighing just 2.5lbs and measuring 28cms -less than the length of a school ruler.
    12歲的小約迪出生時僅重2.5磅,體長28厘米,比一把尺子還短。
    When she was born, her mother, Brianne Jourdin, 36, was warned her daughter - who was so small nurses named her 'Thumbelina' - was unlikely to survive more than a few days.
    她出生的時候,36歲的母親布里安娜·茹爾丹被告知——她的女兒太嬌小了,護士們都叫她“拇指姑娘”,她活不了幾天。
    Doctors said she was likely to have brain damage and was not expected live, so her parents had her baptised that day.
    醫(yī)生稱,小約迪很可能有腦損傷命不久矣,所以她的父母那天為她施洗禮。
    Eight months later, she was diagnosed with primordial dwarfism - a condition causing underdevelopment of limbs, which affects about 100 people worldwide.
    8個月后,她被確診為原始性侏儒癥,這會使得小約迪的四肢無法正常發(fā)育,這種病全世界大約有100個病例。
    However, despite having learning difficulties and thin and fragile bones - Kenadie, from Kitchener, Ontario, plays hockey, swims, and enjoys going to school.
    盡管來自安大略湖基奇納的小約迪學習起來困難重重、體型小的可憐又弱不禁風,她卻打曲棍球,游泳,上學,日子過得很開心。