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She planned to marry her fiance in a beautiful country house, refusing to surrender to the cancer which she had tried so hard to beat. But a month before the wedding, Jemma Webb's condition worsened, and the couple arranged for a registrar to marry them at home the next day.
盡管面對著癌癥的恐嚇，歷盡苦痛的珍瑪·韋伯仍打算在一個美麗的鄉村小屋里和未婚夫完婚。但是，就在婚禮舉行的前一月，她的病情惡化了；于是兩人請了一位證婚人，打算第二天就在家中完婚。
Even that was too late, however. Only 90 minutes before she was due to say her vows, the disease Miss Webb had fought for the last four years finally took her life.
然而即使這樣，也還是太晚了。就在珍瑪說出婚禮誓詞的90分鐘前，她與之搏斗4年之久的病魔終究還是奪去了她的生命。
Yesterday her devastated fiance, Alex Bradford, and her parents, Bob and Janet Webb, paid tribute to the 32-year-old, who had inspired many other women to fight ovarian cancer since her own diagnosis.
昨日，珍瑪傷心欲絕的未婚夫埃里克斯，以及珍瑪的父母韋伯夫婦，為32歲的她舉行了葬禮。自從被診斷為卵巢癌以來，珍瑪堅忍不拔的斗癌事跡曾感動鼓舞了許多病友。
Mr Bradford said: ‘She just kept herself together all through the illness. Some people give up but she always thought she was going to beat it. Jemma may have had cancer, but cancer never had Jemma. Everyone was in awe [of her] for what she did and how she handled the cancer.' Miss Webb first displayed symptoms of ovarian cancer in 2008. She underwent surgery and in February 2010 began chemotherapy.
她的未婚夫說道：“她始終很堅強。有的人放棄了，但她一直相信自己能挺過這一關。雖然她身患癌癥，卻從未被它打倒過。她的所作所為，讓每個人都心生敬畏。” 珍瑪首次出現癌癥癥狀時是在2008年，她做了手術切除，之后在2010年2月開始了化療。
She met Mr Bradford at EDF Energy in Exeter, where they both worked, only nine months before she died. "I didn't know she was ill.You wouldn't," Mr Bradford said. "It was just a normal relationship as you could imagine to start with, but then two months in the cancer spread to her liver and her lungs and I knew then that I had to be there for her."
她生前在英格蘭西南部城市埃克塞特的EDF能源公司工作，在那里結識了現在的未婚夫。他們相識的時候，是在她離開這世界的九個月前。“當時我不知道她生病了。你根本看不出她像生病的樣子。我們開始了，就和任何一段正常的感情一樣。 但是二個月后，她的病灶轉移到了肝和肺。從那時候起，我知道我必須得陪她一起。”
"But I loved her — it was as simple as that, so it was never really a decision." In January, Mr Bradford proposed and the couple planned their wedding for April 18 at Colehayes Park, a Grade II listed Georgian mansion in Dartmoor National Park.
“因為我愛她。對，就這么簡單。所以這算不上什么決定，只是因為愛。” 今年一月，埃里克斯向珍瑪求了婚。他們打算在Colehayes公園舉行婚禮，日子定在4月18號。Colehayes公園是達特穆爾國家公園里一座二級喬治亞時代風格的宅邸。
On March 16, however, Miss Webb's condition deteriorated and the couple decided to get married the next day. They arranged a special licence for a registrar to come to the Webbs' home and conduct the ceremony at 4.30pm on March 17. But at 3pm, with her family and fiancé at her bedside, Miss Webb died.
然而，就在3月16日，珍瑪的病情惡化了。他們臨時決定第二天就結婚。他們獲得特別許可請了一位證婚人，打算在3月17號的下午4:30舉行儀式。然而就在下午3點，珍瑪在家人和愛人的陪伴下，永遠地離開了這個世界。
Mr Bradford said: "On the day she was obviously excited and I was too. But by 2pm she got worse and within an hour she had passed away." Mrs Webb said her daughter had worked hard to raise the profile of the Eve Appeal, the research fund for gynaecological cancer.
她的未婚夫說道：“那天我們倆都特別興奮。下午2點的時候她的情況突然惡化，接著，一小時后，她就走了。” 珍瑪的母親說，她在生前曾一直致力于為Eve Appeal婦科腫瘤中心基金會提高知名度。
