Helen Keller
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Introduction.
导言表。
4 Helen’s Early Years.
4 海伦早年.
6 Helen Gets a Teacher.
6海伦得到一个老师。
7 Teaching Years Pay Off.
7年教学年薪
10 Helen’s Adult Years.
10个海伦成人年.
14 Glossary.
14 词汇表。
16 Index.
16 指数。
16 Introduction Imagine not being able to see or hear.
导言 想象一下无法看到或听到。
How would you learn about the world around you?
你怎么会知道周围的世界?
How would you learn to communicate?
你怎么学会沟通?
You would face many serious challenges, wouldn’t you?
你会面临许多严峻的挑战,
These are the challenges Helen Keller faced more than 100 years ago.
这是海伦·凯勒100多年前面临的挑战。
When she was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, Helen could see and hear.
当她于1880年6月27日生于阿拉巴马州托斯坎比亚时,海伦可以看见并听到.
When she was 19 months old, she became ill and had a very high fever.
19个月大时,她生病并发高烧.
She survived her illness, but the fever left her blind and deaf.
她的疾病幸存了下来,但发烧使她失明而聋.
With time and teaching, Helen Keller would overcome her disabilities and become an inspiration to many people.
随着时间和教学,海伦·凯勒会克服自己的残疾并成为许多人的灵感.
Helen’s Early Years At the time when Helen was a small girl, people didn’t know much about disabilities.
海伦的早年 在海伦还是个小女孩的时候,
Not many teachers had tried to educate people who were both deaf and blind.
没有多少教师试图教育聋人和盲人。
Only a few children like Helen around the world had learned to communicate.
世界上只有少数像海伦这样的孩子学会交流.
Helen and her parents tried to work with her disabilities.
海伦和她的父母试图与她的残疾一起工作.
Helen did not have rules to follow.
海伦没有遵循的规则。
At times she seemed out of control.
有时候她似乎失控了
Her parents had little hope that Helen would lead the kind of life they had imagined she would.
她的父母对海伦能过上他们想象中的生活没有多大希望.
Helen Gets a Teacher Helen’s parents grew more and more frustrated.
海伦的家长越来越沮丧。
A friend of Helen’s parents, Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the telephone, had an idea.
海伦父母的朋友,发明电话的人亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔有一个想法.
When Helen was about 7 years old, he suggested they hire a young woman to teach Helen.
海伦大约7岁时,他建议他们雇用一位年轻女子来教海伦.
The young woman’s name was Anne Sullivan.
年轻女子叫Anne Sullivan。
Helen’s parents agreed to give it a try.
海伦的父母同意试一试.
From that day on, Helen’s life changed.
从那天起,海伦的生活发生了变化.
At first, Helen did not like Anne.
起初,海伦不喜欢安妮.
Anne made Helen do things she didn’t want to do.
安妮制造出来的 海伦做她不想做的事。
Anne made Helen eat from a plate, pick up after herself, and dress herself.
安妮制造出来的 海伦从盘子上吃起 自己捡起 自己穿好衣服
Helen fought her, but Anne kept trying.
海伦与她搏斗,但安妮不断尝试.
Alexander Graham Bell, right, did research on teaching deaf people like Helen, left, to speak.
亚历山大·格雷厄姆 贝尔,没错,研究过 教聋人像海伦,左,说话。
Anne knew that Helen could not see and hear.
安妮知道海伦无法看见和听到.
But she knew that Helen had other senses.
但她知道海伦还有其他的感官.
She could touch, smell, and taste.
她能触摸、嗅觉和口味
Anne began to teach Helen to use these senses to communicate and to learn about the world around her.
安妮开始教海伦使用这些感官进行交流并了解她周围的世界.
Anne knew that Helen was very smart.
安知道海伦很聪明
She thought it would only take some time before Helen learned how to communicate.
她认为海伦学会沟通只需要一些时间.
Teaching Years Pay Off Anne thought about how she could teach Helen to communicate.
教学年数 安妮考虑过如何教海伦沟通.
She used Helen’s sense of touch to teach her.
她用海伦的触觉来教导她.
Anne taught Helen sign language.
安教海伦手语.
In sign language, people use their fingers to make words and letters.
在手语中,人们用手指来作词和字母.
Anne began teaching Helen to spell words with her fingers.
安开始教海伦用手指拼出词来.
Anne would spell words into the palm of Helen’s hand so that she could feel the words being spelled, since she couldn’t see them.
Anne会把文字拼到海伦的手掌上,
Helen relied on her senses to help understand the world around her.
海伦依靠自己的感官帮助了解她周围的世界.
Helen’s sense of touch became her most important sense.
海伦的感想成为她最重要的感想.
For a long time, Helen didn’t understand the finger game Anne played with her.
长久以来,海伦不明白安妮和她玩的指相游戏.
But Anne did not give up.
但安妮并没有放弃。
One day at the water pump, which is sort of like a water fountain, Anne pumped water over one of Helen’s hands.
一天在水泵那里, 类似水泉,
She used her fingers to spell w -a -t-e-r on Helen’s other hand.
她用手指来拼写Helen的另一只手。
Suddenly Helen became very still.
海伦突然变得很平和
Helen got it!
海伦得到了它!
She understood!
她明白我说什么!
She finally realized what Anne was doing.
她终于意识到了安妮在做什么.
She realized that Anne was communicating with her.
她意识到安妮在和她沟通
Helen then used her fingers to spell w -a -t-e-r into the palm of Anne’s hand.
海伦随后用手指将w-a-t-e-r拼入了安妮的手掌中.
Next, Helen pointed to Anne and then to her own hand.
接下来,海伦指向安妮,然后指向自己.
Anne spelled out t-e-a -c-h - e-r.
安妮写出T-e-a -c -h -e -r. - 时间
From that day forward, Helen called Anne teacher.
从那天起,海伦叫安妮老师。
Then Helen had Anne spell out the names of other things around her.
然后海伦让安妮 拼出她身边其他东西的名字
A movie called The Miracle Worker shows how Helen learned her first word.
一部叫"奇迹工人"的电影展现了海伦是如何学到她第一个字的.
Anne, right, spells into Helen’s hand, around 1893.
安妮,对了,1893年左右,在海伦的手里拼出字来.
Helen learned to spell words as quickly as Anne could teach them to her!
海伦学会了尽快拼出词 安妮可以教给她!
Next, Anne taught Helen to use her sense of touch to read.
下一个 安教海伦用触觉去读书.
She taught Helen to read books printed in Braille.
她教海伦阅读用盲文印刷的书籍.
Braille uses raised dots instead of ink to make letters and words.
盲文使用起起的点来代替出墨来来做字母和文字.
Helen learned to feel words.
海伦学会了感受文字.
Helen also learned to understand what people were saying by placing her fingers on their lips.
海伦还学会了通过将手指放入嘴唇来理解人们在说什么.
As people said different words, Helen could feel their lips change shape.
正如人们说出不同的话,海伦可以感觉到嘴唇会变形.
Helen’s Adult Years Once Helen learned to communicate, a new world opened up to her.
海伦的成人时代,
She went to college, and Anne went with her.
她上过大学,而安妮也跟着她去.
Anne signed into Helen’s hand what teachers said during classes.
Anne在Helen手里签了老师在课上说的话。
She also made Braille notes for Helen to read.
她还为海伦的阅读做了盲文笔记.
Helen graduated with Anne’s help.
海伦在安妮的帮助下毕业.
Helen wears her cap and gown after graduating from Radcliffe College in 1 904.
海伦于1904年从拉德克利夫学院毕业后穿起帽子和长袍.
Helen feels the lips of a girl to understand what she is saying.
海伦觉得一个女孩的嘴唇 理解她在说什么。
Helen Keller spent most of her life traveling with Anne Sullivan.
海伦·凯勒一生大部分时间都与安妮·沙利文一起出行.
She gave many speeches and wrote books about her life.
她发表了多篇演讲并撰写了有关她生活的书籍.
She proved to the world that blind and deaf people deserved respect.
她向世界证明,盲人和聋人应该得到尊重。
Helen overcame her disabilities and became an inspiration to people everywhere.
海伦克服了自己的残疾,成为了各地人们的灵感.
Glossary Braille (n.)
词汇盲文(n.)
a system of printing using raised dots to represent letters (p.
使用高点来表示字母的打印系统(p.
13) communicate (v.)
13)通信(五.
to share thoughts or ideas (p.
交流想法或想法(p.
4) disabilities (n.)
4) 残疾(不详)
conditions that limit a person’s ability to do something (p.
限制一个人做某事的能力的条件(p.
5) frustrated (adj.)
5) 沮丧(adj.
annoyed or distressed about being unable to complete a task (p.
对无法完成某项任务感到烦恼或悲伤(p.
7) inspiration (n.)
7) 灵感 (n.
a good influence (p.
良好的影响(第5页)
5) overcome (v.)
(5) 克服(五.
to win a victory over some challenge or obstacle (p.
以战胜某些挑战或障碍(p.
5) senses (n.)
5) 感应 (n.
functions of the body, such as sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing (p.
身体的功能,如视觉,触觉,口味,嗅觉等(p.
9) sign a communication system of hand, language (n.)
9) 签署手语交流系统(n.
face, and body movements (p.
脸部和身体运动(p.
10) survived (v.)
10)幸存(五.
remained alive (p.
仍然活着(p.
5) Index Bell, Alexander Graham, 7 blind, 5, 6, 15 Braille, 13, 14 college, 14 deaf, 5, 6, 15 Helen’s parents, 6, 7Helen Keller died on June 1, 1 968, at age 87.
5)索引贝尔,亚历山大·格雷厄姆,7盲人,5,6,15盲文,13,14所大学,14聋人,5,6,15海伦的父母,6,7海伦·凯勒于1968年6月1日去世,享年87岁.