英国儿童设计的医院开门营业

 　　LONDON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- A children's hospital designed by children opened its doors Thursday in Liverpool.

　　Alder¹ Hey, the busiest children's hospital in Europe, handling 275,000 patients a year, started a five-day move from 19th century buildings into a magical 21st century complex resembling a space station.

　　When the keys to the 380 million U.S. dollars new building were finally handed over today the first to be given a preview of the new hospital were a group of children who have been part of the project team.

　　When hospital bosses decided² in 2007 that the old buildings had reached the end of their lives they took the bold step of asking the children to design Alder Hey's replacement³.

　　Feature: Hospital designed by children opens its magical doors in Liverpool

　　A grass and wildflower roof slopes into a parkland, surrounding the new campus with nature. In the main reception hall there is one of the world's biggest tree houses.

　　Old fashioned wards⁴ have been replaced by en-suite rooms after children said they wanted privacy⁵. It means their mums and dads can stay over to be with the sick children. Children can even select the food they want chefs to prepare for them in the hospital wards.

　　Garden areas give the young patients the chance to play outside, with computer games added for those rainy days.

　　The operating theaters are the most up to date in the world, with high quality cameras able to beam surgical⁶ operations to experts around the world.

　　Doctors said the new-look hospital, with its openness, color and special effects, will speed up recovery time for children,

　　One of the first to see the hospital today was 21 years old Eleanor Brogan. Seven years ago she won a competition, using a picture of a flower to design her perfect hospital.

　　"When I was a patient at Alder Hey I entered a design competition for the new hospital. I won the competition with my picture of a flower, and I was told later the architects had used my flower to help design the new Alder Hey. I chose a flower because I wanted to see lots of green, something bright with loads of fresh air, very different from a traditional hospital," she said.

　　Hospital CEO Louise Shepherd said: "We have strived to create a world class healing environment that will benefit children from across the UK and throughout the world. Our new Alder Hey in the Park has been designed to meet the expectations of our young patients who wanted to be looked after in a state of the art facility that was fun. This has been a once in a lifetime opportunity to create something special."

　　Hospital chairman Sir David Henshaw, said the new hospital will put Alder Hey on the world map. "We are already seeing the world's best doctors and surgeons wanting to come and work here. The future for Alder Hey is better than ever."

1 alder   

n.赤杨树

参考例句：

• He gave john some alder bark.他给了约翰一些桤木树皮。
• Several coppice plantations have been seeded with poplar,willow,and alder.好几个灌木林场都种上了白杨、柳树和赤杨。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 replacement   

n.取代，替换，交换；替代品，代用品

参考例句：

• We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
• They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。

4 wards   

区( ward的名词复数 )； 病房； 受监护的未成年者； 被人照顾或控制的状态

参考例句：

• This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
• It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。

5 privacy   

n.私人权利，个人自由，隐私权

参考例句：

• In such matters,privacy is impossible.在这类事情中，保密是不可能的。
• She wept in the privacy of her own room.她在自己房内暗暗落泪。

6 surgical   

adj.外科的，外科医生的，手术上的

参考例句：

• He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
• All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前，必须消毒。