巴西修女116岁成为全球最长寿者
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Sister Inah Canabarro was born in 1908.
伊娜·卡纳巴罗修女出生于1908年。
She was six years old when The First World War began in 1914.
1914年第一次世界大战爆发时，她只有六岁。
The soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to be the world’s oldest living person at 116 years old.
来自巴西的热爱足球的修女被认为是世界上最长寿的人，现年116岁。
LongeviQuest is an organization that keeps records of people over 110 years old around the world.
LongeviQuest是一个记录全球110岁以上老人的组织。
It released a statement on Saturday saying that Canabarro is the world’s oldest person having proof of early life records.
该机构在周六发表声明称，卡纳巴罗是拥有早期生活记录证明的世界最长寿者。
LongeviQuest filmed a video of Canabarro last February.
LongeviQuest去年二月拍摄了Canabarro的视频。
Canabarro can be seen smiling, making jokes and sharing small paintings she used to make of wildflowers.
可以看到卡纳巴罗面带微笑，开着玩笑，并分享她过去常画的野花小画作。
The video also shows her saying a Catholic prayer called the Hail Mary.
视频中还显示她念诵了一段名为《万福玛利亚》的天主教祈祷文。
“I’m young, pretty and friendly — all very good, positive qualities that you have too,” the nun told visitors to her retirement home in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
“我年轻、漂亮又友善——这些都是非常好的、积极的品质，你也有，”这位修女对来访她位于巴西南部阿雷格里港的养老院的人说。
Canabarro says the secret to her long life is her Catholic religious belief.
卡纳巴罗说，她长寿的秘诀在于她的天主教信仰。
Cleber Canabarro is her 84-year-old nephew.
克莱贝尔·卡纳巴罗是她84岁的侄子。
He told The Associated Press that Sister Inah was so thin during childhood that many people worried that she would not live to be an adult.
他告诉美联社，伊娜修女小时候瘦得让许多人都担心她活不到成年。
Her nephew spends time with her every Saturday.
她的侄子每周六都和她待在一起。
He has been sending her voice messages between visits to help her feel better following two visits to the hospital that left her weak, with difficulty talking.
在两次住院让她变得虚弱、说话困难之后，他一直通过发送语音信息来帮助她感觉好一些。
“The other sisters say she gets a jolt when she hears my voice,” he said.
“别的姐妹说她听到我的声音就会吓一跳，”他说。
“She gets excited.”
她变得兴奋起来。
LongeviQuest researchers say Canabarro was born on June 8, 1908, to a large family in southern Brazil.
LongeviQuest的研究人员称，卡纳巴罗于1908年6月8日出生在巴西南部的一个大家庭。
But her nephew said her birth was registered two weeks late and she was actually born on May 27.
但她的侄子说，她的出生登记迟了两周，实际上她出生于5月27日。
She started religious work when she was a teenager.
她十几岁时就开始了宗教工作。
She spent two years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before moving to Rio de Janeiro.
她在乌拉圭的蒙得维的亚待了两年，之后搬到了里约热内卢。
She later settled in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul.
她后来定居在她的家乡南里奥格兰德州。
Canabarro taught school for most of her life.
卡纳巴罗一生中大部分时间都在教书。
One of her students was General João Figueiredo, a military leader and politician who served as the 30th president of Brazil from 1979 to 1985.
她的学生之一是若昂·菲格雷多将军，他是一位军事领导人和政治家，曾于1979年至1985年担任巴西第30任总统。
Sister Inah also started two marching bands at schools in two cities sharing the border between Uruguay and Brazil.
伊娜修女还在乌拉圭和巴西边境两座城市的学校里组建了两支行进乐队。
Pope Francis honored Canabarro for her 110th birthday.
教皇方济各为卡纳巴罗庆祝110岁生日。
She is the second-oldest nun ever known, after Lucile Randon of France, who was the world’s oldest person until her death in 2023 at the age of 118.
她是已知第二年长的修女，仅次于法国的露西尔·朗东。朗东曾是世界上最长寿的人，于2023年去世，享年118岁。
The local soccer club where Canabarro lives is named Inter.
卡纳巴罗所居住地的当地足球俱乐部名为国际。
The club celebrates the birthday of its oldest fan every year.
这家俱乐部每年都会为最年长的粉丝庆祝生日。
Her room is decorated with gifts in the team’s red and white colors, her nephew said.
她的侄子说，她的房间里装饰着以球队红白两色为主题的礼物。
“White or black, rich or poor, whoever you are, Inter is the team of the people,” Canabarro said in one video posted on social media.
“无论白人还是黑人，富人还是穷人，无论你是谁，国际米兰都是人民的球队，”卡纳巴罗在社交媒体上发布的一段视频中说道。
The video shows her celebrating her 116th birthday with the club’s president.
视频显示，她与俱乐部主席一同庆祝了自己的116岁生日。
LongeviQuest said Canabarro became the oldest living person following the death of Japan’s Tomiko Itooka in December.
LongeviQuest表示，在日本的Tomiko Itooka于12月去世后，Canabarro成为了在世最长寿的人。
She now ranks as the 20th oldest documented person to have ever lived.
她目前在有记录以来最长寿的人中排名第20位。
The organization says Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, was the oldest documented person ever.
该组织表示，1997年去世的法国女性珍妮·卡尔芒享年122岁，是有记录以来最长寿的人。
I’m Andrew Smith
我是安德鲁·史密斯
Andrew Smith adapted this story for VOA Learning English based on reporting from The Associated Press.
安德鲁·史密斯根据美联社的报道，为VOA慢速英语改编了这个故事。
