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Nepal's prize-winning poet with cerebral palsy
標題解說
• prize-winning：得獎的，同award-winning 形容詞，prize-winning poet 獲獎詩人
Nepal：尼泊爾 (國家名)
► 注意：不是諾貝爾Nobel
• cerebral palsy：腦性麻痺 (不可數名詞)，由於腦部受傷，導致肢體無法控制
► 請參考http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/cerebral-palsy
a medical condition usually caused by brain damage before or at birth that causes
the loss of control of movement in the arms and legs
內文解析
█ 一位有腦性麻痺的年輕女性，唯一溝通的方式是用腳寫字，卻贏得了尼泊爾最具名望的文學獎
A young woman with cerebral palsy, whose only way of communicating is by writing with her foot, has won Nepal's most prestigious literary prize.
► 簡化來看：
A young woman, (中間為更多說明的文字=X ) , has won a literary prize.
A young woman with cerebral palsy, x, has won Nepal’s most prestigious literary prize.
有腦性麻痺的年輕女性已經贏得尼泊爾最具名望的文學大獎
• prestigious：具有名望的，(形容詞) most prestigious 最高級
• literary prize：文學獎
►won a literary prize贏得文學獎，動詞用won，是win的過去式
• writing with her foot： 注意到是一隻腳(foot 單數) 用單腳寫
█ 這位詩人的名字是Jhamak Kumari Ghimire，30歲。獲獎的作品是她的自傳散文集，”Is life a thorn or a flower?” “生命是荊棘還是花朵?”
Jhamak Kumari Ghimire, 30, won the Madan Puraskar prize for her book of autobiographical essays, "Is life a thorn or a flower?"
• essay：短文 (名詞)
• autobiographical： 自傳的 (形容詞)
• thorn：荊棘 (名詞)
█ 生長在尼泊爾東部山區一個平凡村莊的家庭裡，天生有殘疾造成她無法言語或使用雙手，在書中她訴說如何掙扎表達自己的思想和感覺。
In this she describes her struggle for self-expression after being born into an ordinary village family in the hills of eastern Nepal with disabilities that left her unable to speak or use her hands.
• disability：殘障，可數名詞 (不只一種障礙)
• struggle：掙扎 (在此當名詞) her struggle在所有格 her 之後，推想是名詞
• self-expression：表達思想或感情 (名詞) 尤其是透過寫作、繪畫
█ 她沒被送去上學，透過聽她姊姊唸書而教會自己寫字。在獲獎的書中，她描寫了她寫尼泊爾文的所用的北印度文第一個字母 Ka 的情形。
She was not sent to school and taught herself to write by listening to her sister studying. In her prize-winning book she describes the first time she wrote the letter 'ka' (क) - the first letter of the devanagari alphabet in which Nepali is written.
• alphabet：字母
• devanagari alphabet：北印度文字母，也就是尼泊爾文所用的文字
█ 我無法跟任何人分享這一刻的喜悅，但我的第一個字母是寫在地上的塵土上。在我的心中我可以念出來。我高興得 把 Ka 寫了又寫，寫了好幾遍。
"I could not share that moment's joy with anyone, but my first letter was written in the dust on the ground and in my heart I could pronounce it. I was so happy that I rewrote the letter 'ka' many times."
• dust：塵土 (名詞)
•re-write：再寫一遍 (動詞)，re-wrote (過去式)
█ Ghimire 女士已經出版了四本詩集，兩本短篇故事集和許多報紙專欄都有她的作品。
Ms Ghimire has published four volumes of poetry, two books of short stories and many newspaper columns.
• volume：卷冊 (名詞)
• newspaper column：報紙專欄
字彙整理
讀文學獎新聞，得獎者為殘疾人士，格外令人感動，讓我們藉此學到一些談論文學與醫學用語。
殘障：disability (名詞)
腦性麻痺：cerebral palsy (名詞)
詩人：poet
得獎的：prize-winning (形容詞)
prize-winning poet 得獎的詩人
prize-winning book得獎的書
卷冊：volume (名詞)
four volumes of poetry 四本詩集
報紙專欄：newspaper column
分享那一刻的喜悅：share that moment’s joy
文學獎：literary prize (名詞片語)
won a literary prize贏得文學獎
最有名望的：most prestigious (形容詞最高級)
Nepal’s most prestigious literary prize
尼伯爾最有名望的文學獎
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