Today, the world Health Organization (WHO) launches part five of Great Expectations - the stories of pregnancy and childbirth told by six women from different countries around the world.

今天，世界卫生组织发表了“远大期望”第五部分，来自世界各地不同国家的六名妇女在这故事系列里讲述了她们怀孕和分娩的经历。

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In addition, for every woman who dies in childbirth, around 20 more suffer injury, infection or disease - approximately 10 million women each year.

此外，对于死于分娩的每一名妇女，就有约20名更多的妇女罹患损伤、感染或疾病—每年约1000万妇女。

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About 1000 women die from pregnancy - or childbirth-related complications around the world every day.

全世界每天约有1000名妇女死于与妊娠或分娩有关的并发症。

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A study in 2005 found that around half of the Cambodian women who die in childbirth succumb to massive blood loss.

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Around 460 Cambodian women die in childbirth for every 100,000 births.

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While childbirth, within limits, varies relatively little around the world at home or in hospital, painful or less painful, safe or life-threatening nothing identifies people, nor divides them, in quite the same way as the complex rituals that different societies have evolved to dispatch their dead.

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Around 1910, medical science began to get a handle on death in childbirth, and the sex ratio began falling.

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