Warmth scene: Danish giraffe kisses the dying caretaker

2014-03-26 「 1528 words / 3 minute 」
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荷兰一动物园中上演了温情一幕:维修工终其一生都在动物园为动物们清理窝棚,在他即将离世之际,长颈鹿仿佛感受到了悲伤、献出给饲养员的告别之吻。
This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who had spent his entire adult life cleaning the animal's enclosure at a Dutch zoo.
这位54岁的维修工已经癌症晚期,他请求把自己的病床带到动物园的长颈鹿生活区。
The 54-year-old maintenance worker, who has terminal cancer, asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure at the zoo.
在一幕感人的画面中,一只长颈鹿走进这位名叫马里奥的工人,然后送上了温柔的告别之吻。
In a heartbreaking scene, one of the giraffes then approached the man, known only as Mario, and gave him a tender kiss goodbye.
“这一刻非常奇妙,你可以看见马里奥满脸笑容。”
‘(It was) a very special moment. You saw him beaming.’
马里奥先天智力低于常人,他在动物园工作了大半生。当时他请求和动物园的同事告别。
Mario, who's mentally disabled, then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo, where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.
Veldboer 先生说:“我们很高兴能够通过我们的努力满足他的最后心愿。”
‘It was very nice that we were able to work on the last wish of this man,' Mr Veldboer said.
救护车许愿基金会是一个慈善组织,其志愿者专注于帮助疾病晚期、行动不便的病人实现最后的愿望。
The Ambulance Wish Foundation is a charity whose volunteers specialise in taking non-mobile terminally ill patients fulfill their dying wishes.
这一组织由Veldboer在2007年建立的,同时他还是基金会救护车车队的司机,载着病人到所有想去的地方。
The organization was founded in 2007 by Veldboer, who also drives the company's fleet of ambulances to take patients wherever they wish to go.
去年,这一慈善组织曾帮助疾病晚期的86岁老人回到自己在荷兰的农场,和自己的小马告别。
Last year the charity took a terminally-ill 86-year-old man back to his farm in Holland, to say goodbye to his ponies.