Crown Princess Mette-Marit Needs a New Lung

儲備王妃 Mette-Marit 需要肺臟移植


Introduction

Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway is very sick. She needs a lung transplant.

挪威儲備王妃 Mette-Marit 病得很嚴重,她需要進行肺臟移植。

Main Body

The Princess has a lung disease. Her lungs do not work well. She cannot breathe easily. Now she is on a list to get a new lung from a donor.

王妃患有肺部疾病,肺功能不佳,導致她無法輕鬆呼吸。目前她已在名單上,等待捐贈者提供新的肺臟。

Her family is helping her. Prince Haakon stopped his work trips. Princess Ingrid Alexandra left school in Australia to go home to Oslo. They did not have their wedding party.

她的家人一直在支持她。哈康王子暫停了出差工作。英格麗德·亞歷山德拉公主也離開了在澳洲的學校,回到奧斯陸。他們也沒有舉辦婚禮派對。

Some people were angry with the Princess before. Her son has legal problems. She also knew a bad man named Jeffrey Epstein. But now, many people in Norway feel sad for her and want to help.

先前有些人對王妃感到憤怒。她的兒子有法律問題,而且她曾認識一名叫 Jeffrey Epstein 的惡劣男子。但現在,許多挪威人對她感到悲傷並希望提供幫助。

Conclusion

The Princess is very sick. She is waiting for a new lung and cannot work.

王妃病得很嚴重,她正在等待肺臟移植,目前無法工作。

Vocabulary Learning

⚡ The Power of 'NOT'

In this story, we see how to make a sentence negative. To say something is not happening or not working, we use a simple pattern:

[Person/Thing] + [Helping Word] + NOT + [Action]

  • Her lungs do not work well.
  • They did not have their party.

🗺️ Word Maps: Place & Person

Notice how the text connects people to places. This is a key A2 skill:

Person \rightarrow Place/Origin

  • Princess Ingrid \rightarrow Australia (School)
  • The Family \rightarrow Oslo (Home)
  • Mette-Marit \rightarrow Norway (Country)

💡 Simple Feelings

Beginners should learn these opposite 'emotion' words found in the text:

Angry \leftrightarrow Sad

Vocabulary Learning

transplant (n.)
Moving a body part from one person to another
Example:The patient needs a heart transplant to live.
disease (n.)
An illness or sickness
Example:The doctor is treating the disease with medicine.
breathe (v.)
To take air into the lungs and send it out again
Example:It is hard to breathe when you have a cold.
donor (n.)
A person who gives a part of their body to help someone else
Example:The donor gave blood to the hospital.
legal (adj.)
Related to the law
Example:He needs legal help from a lawyer.
Practice A2 words in a crossword