每日一词学英语(78): Zimmer frame

西班牙一名妇女66岁时生了一对双胞胎儿子，上周六（69岁）不幸患癌去世（From Times Online, July 15, 2009: Oldest mother, Maria Carmen del Bousada, dies at 69, leaving baby orphans）。

The reaction in Spain to the birth was generally hostile. On cartoon in the Spanish daily El Mundo showed a mother pushing a Zimmer frame while her child asks for dinner.

Zimmer frame是walker或walking frame在British English中的说法，即助行器，主要用于帮助老人和行动不便的人，这里指婴儿的学步器。