【读新闻学英语】惠灵顿女婴出生没屁股，网友筹款捐助

From the outside 8-month-old, Ivy Pittams is a chatty, feisty and healthy baby - but she has spent most of her in and out of the hospital because she was born without a bottom.
从外表来看，这个8个月大的婴儿Ivy Pittams健谈且健壮，但是她目前生命中大部分时间都在医院里度过，因为她出生时没有屁股。
Chatty：健谈
Feisty：健壮

"This brave little lady came out absolutely perfect except for one vital component: a bum," says her mum Colleen Parker, 23.
她23岁的妈妈Colleen Parker说：“这个勇敢的小姐出生时是绝对完美的，除了她身体的重要组成部分：一个屁股。”
Vital component：重要组成部分

"She has a series of congenital conditions, all linked to an unusual form of spina bifida, which has left her with anal atresia, sacral aplasia, pelvic dysplasia, spinal stenosis, and other secondary conditions."
“她有一系列先天疾病，都与一种不寻常的脊柱断裂有关，这使她患有肛门闭锁，骶骨发育不良，盆腔发育不良，椎管狭窄并有其他继发性疾病。”
Congenital：先天

Basically, Ivy has no bottom, no tailbone and everything from the hips down was a bit different.
"A lot of the stuff around that area has not formed fully."
基本上，Ivy没有屁股，没有尾椎骨，臀部的一切都有点不同。“在她身体的这个部位，周围的很多东西还没有完全形成。”
Tailbone：尾椎骨

Speaking from her daughter's bedside at Wellington Children's Hospital, Parker said she and partner Simon Pittams, 32, a hotel conference porter, had done their best to budget for medical expenses while looking after their two other children on one income.
在惠灵顿医院女儿的床边，Parker说，她和32岁的酒店会议搬运工Simon Pittams一起努力筹集需要的医疗费用，同时照顾好他们的另外两个孩子。
Conference：会议

Despite all of her hardships Ivy has remained positive and a relatively normal baby.
尽管面临着艰辛的困境，Ivy仍然是一个积极的、相对正常的婴儿。
Positive：积极的

New Zealand Organisation for Rare Diseases [NZORD] chief executive Dr Collette Bromhead said Ivy's condition was also known as caudal regression syndrome - a form of spina bifida - and was as rare as one in every 100,000 births.
新西兰罕见疾病组织[NZORD]首席执行官Collette Bromhead博士说，Ivy的病情也被称为尾部退行综合征，是一种脊椎断裂，每10万个婴儿中仅会出现一例。
Rare：罕见

A Givealittle page was started to help them cover living expenses .The page has already raised more than $1000.
捐款网站Givealittle也开设了一个月面帮助他们筹集费用，目前已经筹集到了超过1000纽币。