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今年87岁的美国黑人洗衣妇奥西欧拉·麦卡蒂几乎一生都是在默默无闻中度过的.她一直居住在美国南部密西西比州海提斯堡郊外的一间祖传的房子里,没有结婚,没有孩子,也没有别的亲人,加上她很少与外界来往,谁也没有注意到她的存在.但麦卡蒂自己感觉很好,她希望一直过这种宁静的生活.然而,前不久发生的一件事却打乱了她的宁静生活,使她一夜之间成了美国众口赞扬的新闻人物.许许多多的新闻记者、教师、学生和企业家们纷纷来到她的小屋,向她表示敬意和感谢.美国最有影响的《纽约时报》在8月中旬刊登了介绍这位普通黑人洗衣妇感人事迹的长篇通讯.
Osceola McCarty, an 87-year-old Afro-American washer who spent almost her life in her own life, has lived in an ancestral home on the outskirts of Hertisburg, in the southern state of Mississippi, No children, no other loved ones, plus she seldom contacts with the outside world, no one noticed her existence.But McCarty feel good, she hopes to have had this quiet life.However, not long ago What happened was disrupting her quiet life and making her an overnight compliment to the press. Many journalists, teachers, students and entrepreneurs came to her cottage, Paid tribute to her and the most influential New York Times in the United States published a lengthy newsletter in mid-August on the deeds of this ordinary black washerwoman.