Woman in Mali Gives Birth to 9 Babies
非洲马里一产妇成功诞下9胞胎
A woman from the West African nation of Mali gave birth to nine babies, five girls and four boys, on Tuesday.
上周二，一名来自西非国家马里的妇女产下了9名婴儿：5名女孩和4名男孩。
The mother is 25-year-old Halima Cisse from the northern part of Mali. She originally thought she was carrying seven. A test late in her pregnancy failed to show the other two babies.
这位25岁的母亲名字叫哈利玛·西塞（Halima Cisse），来自马里北部。她原本以为自己怀了7个孩子。在她怀孕后期的一次检查中，没有发现另外两个婴儿。
The Malian government flew her to Morocco so she could receive better medical care. The babies were delivered by cesarean section, a surgery that removes the babies from the uterus.
马里政府用飞机把她送到摩洛哥，以便她能得到更好的医疗照顾。这9名婴儿是通过剖腹产分娩的，这是一种将婴儿从子宫中取出的手术。
Nurses take care of the nine newborns
护士们正在照顾9个新生儿
Multiple births are rare. The chance of having even two babies, known as twins, is about one in 80. The chance of having five babies is about one in 40 million.
多胞胎非常少见。生两个孩子，也就是双胞胎的几率，大约是1/80。生五个孩子的几率约为：四千万分之一。
Mali's health minister is Fanta Siby. She was pleased with the "happy outcome" of the pregnancy. She told the AFP news agency, "the mother and babies are doing well so far." They will stay in Morocco for several weeks.
马里卫生部长芬塔·西比（Fanta Siby）对此次怀孕的“幸福结果”感到开心。她告诉法新社，“到目前为止，母亲和孩子们都很好。” 他们将在摩洛哥再待几个星期。
Doctors in Mali who followed Cisse's pregnancy were concerned about the health of both the mother and the babies. In pregnancies that large, it is rare that all the children survive.
关注西塞分娩的马里医生们对母亲和婴儿的健康都表示担忧。在那么多胎的妊娠中，很少能让所有的孩子都能存活下来。
Guinness World Records reports that American Nadya Suleman gave birth to eight babies, six boys and two girls, in California in 2009. All of them survived.
据吉尼斯世界纪录报道，2009年，美国人纳蒂亚·苏莱曼（Nadya Suleman）在加州生下了8个婴儿，6男2女。他们都活了下来。
In 1971, an Australian woman, Geraldine Mary Brodrick, gave birth to nine babies, but only seven were born alive.
1971年，一名澳大利亚妇女，杰拉尔丁·玛丽·布罗德里克（Geraldine Mary Brodrick）生下了9个婴儿，但只有7个活了下来。
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重点单词：
surgery –n. 手术
pregnancy –n. 怀孕
uterus –n. 子宫
rare –adj. 罕见的
multiple –adj. 多个的
outcome –n. 结果，结局
survive –v. 存活，幸存
cesarean section –剖腹产术
Guinness World Records –吉尼斯世界纪录
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