Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 (误读成1802), and had a very long life.
弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔出生于1820年，她活了很长的岁月。
During nearly all Miss Nightingale's life, England was ruled by the famous Queen Victoria.
在南丁格尔小姐的一生中，英格兰几乎一直由著名的维多利亚女王统治。
At one time during her reign, about a hundred years ago, the English were fighting the Russians in a place called the Crimea.
在她统治期间的某一时期，大约一百年前，英国人与俄国人在一个叫克里米亚的地方交战。
Florence Nightingale became famous because of the work she did in this war.
弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔因为在这场战争中所做的贡献而成名。
She became a nurse and she helped to train hundreds and hundreds of other women to be skillful and gentle nurses.
她成了一名护士，并且帮助培训成百上千的女性成为了熟练而友善的护士。
When Miss Nightingale was a little girl, she used to like playing with her dolls and pretending to nurse them.
当南丁格尔小姐还是个小女孩的时候，她经常和她的洋娃娃一起玩儿，假装照顾它们。
She used to visit the poor people near her house and look after them when they were ill.
她还经常去看望她家附近的穷人，并且在他们生病的时候照顾他们。
She wanted very much to be a nurse, but her father said, "Look at the women who do nursing nowadays! I don't want you to be like that!"
她非常想成为一名护士，但是他的父亲说：“你看看现在做护士的女人！我可不希望你变成那样！”
He had plenty of money and let Florence travel to many other countries. He hoped she would forget about wanting to be a nurse.
她父亲非常富有，他让弗洛伦斯去许多国家旅行，希望她能忘掉当护士的想法。
But Florence didn't forget. She wrote to some very important people and at last one of her friends, who was the Minister of War, allowed her to go and look after the wounded soldiers.
但是弗洛伦斯并没有忘记。她给许多显赫人士写信，最后她的一位朋友，也就是战争部长，允许她去照顾受伤的士兵。
She picked the best nurses she could find and took them with her.
她挑选了最好的护士和她一起工作。
They found the hospital crowded and dirty.
她们发现战地医院又挤又脏。
There was not enough medicine. There were not enough bandages. There was not even enough food.
没有足够的药物，没有足够的绑带，甚至没有足够的食物。
Miss Nightingale and her nurses had to work very hard indeed.
南丁格尔小姐和她的护士们不得不非常努力地工作。
Every night she walked around the hospital with a small lamp, visiting the patients.
每天晚上她都会提着一盏小灯在医院里来回走动，看望病人。
The soldiers were very pleased to see her. They knew that she was working very hard for them and they gave her the name of "The Lady of the Lamp."
士兵们看到她都非常高兴。他们知道她在为了他们而努力工作，给她起了个名字，叫“提灯女神”。
She and her nurses saved hundreds of lives and she stayed at the hospital until the war was over.
她和她的护士们挽救了几百条生命，她一直留在医院里直到战争结束。
She fell ill herself because she had worked too hard for a very long time.
由于她长时间努力工作过于辛苦，结果自己病倒了。
When she came back to England, however, she started to train nurses in all hospitals.
然而，当她回到英格兰，她却开始在所有的医院里培训护士。
Soon all the big hospitals in England had their own training schools for nurses.
很快英格兰所有的大医院都拥有了自己的护士培训学校。
Hospitals became clean and cheerful places and nurses were much more skillful.
医院变成了干净愉快的地方，护士也变得更加娴熟。
Today, nurses all over the world remember "The Lady of the Lamp".
今天，全世界的护士都在纪念这位“提灯女神”。