The day the first human heart was transplanted
第一顆人類心臟被移植的那天——二級心臟
There was a terrible car accident in Cape Town on December 2, 1967. A 25-year-old woman and her mother were hit by a driver who didn’t see them. The mother died immediately, but her daughter was alive and was taken to the hospital with horrible head injuries.
1967年12月2日，開普敦發生了一起可怕的車禍。一名25歲的婦女和她的母親被一名沒有看到她們的司機撞倒。這位母親當場身亡，但她的女兒還活著，頭部嚴重受傷，被送往醫院。
When the young woman arrived at the hospital, her heart was beating, but she was already dead because her brain wasn’t working. There was nothing the doctors could do to save her.
當這個年輕的女子到達醫院時，她的心臟還在跳動，但是她已經死了，因為她的大腦已經沒有活動了。此時醫生無能為力。
When her father came to the hospital, doctors explained to him that they couldn’t save his daughter, but her heart could help another patient. The father thought about it, and he allowedthe doctors to transplant his daughter’s heart to another patient. The patient was a 55-year-old man who had a lot of problems with his heart. A heart transplant was his only hope.
當她的父親來到醫院時，醫生向他解釋說他們救不了他的女兒，但是她的心臟可以幫助另一個病人。父親想了想，同意醫生把女兒的心臟移植到另一個病人身上。病人是一位55歲的男性，他的心臟有很多問題。心臟移植是他唯一的希望。
A team of thirty doctors, nurses and technicians around Doctor Christiaan Barnard completed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant successfully. The patient woke up after the operation and could speak with his wife and reporters. Sadly, he died only eighteen days after the transplant.
一個由克裡斯蒂安·巴納德及三十名醫生、護士和技術人員組成的團隊成功完成了世界上第一例人對人心臟移植手術。病人術後醒來，可以與他的妻子和記者交談。不幸的是，他在移植手術後僅18天就去世了。
The operation was a really important moment in medical history. From that moment, people knew that it was possible to transplant the heart.
這次手術在醫學史上是一個非常重要的時刻。從那時起，人們就知道移植心臟是可能的。
The care after the operations of transplanted organs became better and better. Today, 85% of patients survive after one year and 69 % survive after five years.
移植器官手術後的護理越來越好。今天，85% 的患者一年後仍存活，69% 的患者五年後仍存活。
Difficult words: injury (a bad thing which happens to the body), 難詞: 損傷(發生在身體上的壞事) ，
patient (somebody who is ill), 病人(生病的人) ，
transplant (to move), 移植(移動) ，
allow (to let somebody do something), 允許(讓某人做某事) ，
care (the process of helping somebody in hospital).關心(在醫院幫助某人的過程)。