Australia's foreign affairs minister is looking into the case of a Sydney couple stuck with a million dollar hospital bill after their daughter was born in Vancouver last August.
去年八月，一对澳大利亚夫妇在温哥华的一所医院生下了一个女儿，但却因此要支付高达100万美元的医疗账单。现在澳大利亚外交部长正在调查此事。

John Kan and Rachel Evans had taken out travel insurance and extra cover for Evans' pregnancy without realizing the policy would not cover birth or the baby.
约翰・肯和瑞秋・埃文斯这对夫妇已经购买了旅游保险和埃文斯怀孕的附加保险，却没有想到这项政策并没有包括孩子的出生费用。

They were about to return to Australia after their B.C. vacation when Evans went into premature labour at the airport. Piper Kan stayed in the neo-natal ward of the B.C. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre for three months and the bill ended up being about one-million dollars.
当他们在不列颠哥伦比亚省度完假期， 正打算回澳大利亚时埃文斯在机场早产了。他们的女儿派珀・肯在不列颠哥伦比亚省女子医院和健康中心的早产病房里呆了3个月，最后的账单竟然接近100万美元。

Australian media reports the couple negotiated a payment plan with the hospital at about $300 a month, which would take 278 years to pay off.
据澳大利亚媒体的报道，该对夫妇与医院协商后，最终达成了协议，他们每月支付300美元， 这要278年才能还清。

Evans tells the Herald Sun newspaper they don't begrudge the bill because they have a healthy daughter. "Financially, it’s not so good but you can't put a price on it," she told the newspaper.
埃文斯告诉《先驱太阳报》，他们舍得这笔钱，因为他们的女儿非常健康。“从经济上看，这实在是太贵了，但这无法用金钱来衡量。”她告诉该报记者。

It's unclear what support Australia’s foreign ministry could offer, but the Herald says the country's Dept. of Health and Ageing will reportedly investigate whether it could pay the bill.
现在还不清楚澳大利亚外交部将会提供何种支持，但据《先驱太阳报》报道，国家的卫生和养老部正在调查是否可为这笔费用买单。

Evans said she is grateful for any help the government might be able to provide. "We don't feel our mistake was someone else's responsibility but obviously it is quite a large amount so any assistance we can get would be helpful."
埃文斯说她很感激政府部门所提供的帮助。“我们觉得这是我们自己的错误，别人不该为此负责，但是这笔费用实在是太高了，所以任何帮助对我们来说都会非常有用。”

Australian residents can get treatments deemed medically necessary under reciprocal agreements with 11 countries, but Canada is not one of those countries.
根据互惠协议，澳大利亚的居民能够在11个国家内获得必要的医护治疗，但这并不包括加拿大。