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An 86-year-old woman was left hanging upside-down in a dark cellar for 27 hours after falling and trapping her leg in a ladder, the Daily Mail reported.

Joan Eaborn fell as she tried to climb down into her cellar through a trapdoor to reach the electricity fuse box after the power was cut to her home in Ipswich, Suffolk.

A friend found Eaborn last Wednesday and she was cut free by firefighters.

"I was just hanging there like a bat," she said last night. "I was like a batwoman! I quickly realized that there wasn't much I could do but to keep positive and try to spread the weight off my trapped leg. I wasn't scared. Worse things have happened in life. I was prepared to hold on for a few more hours at least," she said.

Eaborn is now recovering in hospital from a leg injury and hypothermia.

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老人梯子上倒掛27小時

?????? 英國《每日郵報》消息，一位86歲的老太太在一個黑暗的地窖里不小心摔倒，腿卡在梯子里，被迫倒掛了27個小時。

?????? 這位老人名叫瓊?艾博爾，家住英國東部薩福克郡的伊普斯威奇市，事發當天她家里停電，她試圖通過地板門爬到地窖里去夠保險絲盒，一不小心摔倒。

?????? 艾博爾的朋友上周三發現了她，并叫來消防員救下她。

?????? “我就像一個蝙蝠似地掛在那里，”她昨晚說到，“我就像蝙蝠女俠! 我迅速意識到我最好什么都不做，就這么呆著，并試圖分散我被陷進去的這條腿的重量，我一點也不害怕，我經歷過更可怕的事情呢。我已經準備好至少還要這么呆上幾個小時。”

?????? 老人腿部受傷，并且體溫過低，正在醫院接受治療。

(China.org.cn July 5, 2011)