米德尔顿于1949年、23岁时患小儿麻痹症，身体瘫痪，医生原先判断她活不久，但她却缔造了依靠人造肺存活最久的纪录。

Middleton was paralysed in 1949, aged 23, and doctors gave her a slim chance of survival. However, she holds the world record for the longest time spent in an iron lung.

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这就意味着，当瘫痪病例被发现时，小儿麻痹症病毒已经扩散了。

This means by the time a paralytic case is found, the poliovirus has probably spread.

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他觉得胸内的骨头好像都快断了，而身体的其他部位也麻痹瘫痪了。

He felt as though his bones were breaking through his chest while the rest of his body was paralysed.

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So, polio--the disease caused by polio can be a paralytic disease, crippling, and in some cases can lead to death if the disease progresses in certain ways.

小儿麻痹症便是由脊髓灰质炎病毒引起的,如果脊髓灰质炎发展到一定程度,患者不仅会瘫痪或者残疾,一些病例甚至可能死亡

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