“不老女婴”离世 20年容貌如婴儿_BEC初级作文

“不老女婴”离世 20年容貌如婴儿

Brooke Greenberg, who baffled scientists because she never aged, has died at the age of 20, never having developed beyond the physical size of an infant or the mental capacity of a 2-year-old.

永远不会长大的布鲁克·格林伯格让科学家们迷惑不已，她在上周离世，现年20岁的她一直保持着婴儿的身形，智力发育一直保持在2岁儿童的水平。

The daughter of Howard and Melanie Greenberg from Reisterstown, Brooke is one of about a dozen children in the world who have what some call syndrome X -- a kind of Benjamin Button disorder that prevents them from aging.

布鲁克·格林伯格来自雷斯特斯敦的霍华德·格林伯格和梅勒尼·格林伯格的女儿。她是世界上十来个患有所谓“X综合征”的儿童之一，这是一种与本杰明·巴顿类似的病症，会让儿童无法长大。

小编注：本杰明·巴顿是斯科特·菲茨杰拉德写于1922年的短篇小说《返老还童》中的人物形象。本杰明以老人形象降生人世，之后越活越年轻。2008年同名电影由布拉德·皮特和凯特·布兰切特主演，获第81届奥斯卡金像奖提名。

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Her funeral was Sunday at a synagogue outside Baltimore, family friends confirmed.

据这家人的亲友称，她的家人已经在周日于巴尔的摩的犹太会堂为她举行葬礼。

Brooke has been pushed around in a stroller all her life. In 2009, when her family was interviewed on ABC， Brook weighed 16 pounds and was 30 inches tall. She didn't speak, but she laughed when she was happy, and clearly recognized her three sisters: Emily, now 26; Caitlin, now 23; and Carly, now 17.