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Recently, the story of a middle-aged Chinese rag-picker went viral online. With a keen interest in English, the 44-year-old woman has been teaching herself English for over 20 years, and can now read English newspapers and translate English novels. 近日，中国一位中年拾荒者的事迹在网上走红。由于对英语有着浓厚的兴趣，这位44岁的女子坚持自学英语20多年，现在可以读英文报纸，翻译英文小说。 Yuan Yinghui was born in a village in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. She began learning English in junior middle school and has been passionate about it ever since. 她叫袁英慧，出生于中国东部山东省青岛的一个乡村。她在初中时开始学英语，自那时起便对学英语充满了热情。 Yuan enrolled in a vocational high school in Qingdao at the age of 17, majoring in clothing, in which she later found herself utterly uninterested. 17岁时，袁英慧考入青岛市的一所职业中学，学习服装专业，后来她发现自己对这个专业不太感兴趣。 | 
