Helen Keller海倫 凱勒 簡(jiǎn)介 英文

1、Helen KellerIn 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to

2、become a world-famous author and public speaker? The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving her of sight and sound. It was as if she had been thrown into a dark prison cell from which there could be no release. Luckily Helen was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore

3、the world by using her other senses. She followed her mother wherever she went, hanging onto her skirts, She touched and smelled everything she came across. She copied their actions and was soon able to do certain jobs herself, like milking the cows or kneading dough, She even learnt to recognize pe

4、ople by feeling their faces or their clothes. She could also tell where she was in the garden by the smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet. By the age of seven she had invented over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family, If she wanted bread for ex

5、ample, she would pretend to cut a loaf and butter the slices. If she wanted ice cream she wrapped her arms around herself and pretended to shiver. Helen was unusual in that she was extremely intelligent and also remarkably sensitive. By her own efforts she had managed to make some sense of an alien

6、and confusing world. But even so she had limitations. At the age of five Helen began to realize she was different from other people. She noticed that her family did not use signs like she did but talked with their mouths. Sometimes she stood between two people and touched their lips. She could not u

7、nderstand what they said and she could not make any meaningful sounds herself. She wanted to talk but no matter how she tried she could not make herself understood. This make her so angry that she used to hurl herself around the room, kicking and screaming in frustration. As she got older her frustr

8、ation grew and her rages became worse and worse. She became wild and unruly . If she didnt get what she wanted she would throw tantrums until her family gave in. Her favourite tricks included grabbing other peoples food from their plates and hurling fragile objects to the floor. Once she even manage

9、d to lock her mother into the pantry. Eventually it became clear that something had to be done. So, just before her seventh birthday, the family hired a private tutor Anne Sullivan. Anne was careful to teach Helen especially those subjects in which she was interested. As a result Helen became gentle

10、r and she soon learnt to read and write in Braille. She also learnt to read peoples lips by pressing her finger-tips against them and feeling the movement and vibrations. This method is called Tadoma and it is a skill that very, very few people manage to acquire. She also learnt to speak, a major ac

11、hievement for someone who could not hear at all. Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honours from Radcliffe College in 1904. She had phenomenal powers of concentration and memory, as well as a dogged determination to succeed. While she was still at college she wrote The Story of

12、 My Life. This was an immediate success and earned her enough money to buy her own house. She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Eventually she became so famous that she was invited abroad and rece

13、ived many honours from foreign universities and monarchs. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom. After her death in 1968 an organization was set up in her name to combat blindness in the developing world. Today that agency, Helen Kell

14、er International, is one of the biggest organizations working with blind people overseas. 幼時(shí)患病，兩耳失聰，雙目失明。七歲時(shí)，安妮·沙利文擔(dān)任她的家庭教師，從此成了她的良師益友，相處達(dá)50年。在沙利文幫助之下，進(jìn)入大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)，以優(yōu)異成績(jī)畢業(yè)。在大學(xué)期間，寫(xiě)了我生命的故事，講述她如何戰(zhàn)勝病殘，給成千上萬(wàn)的殘疾人和正常人帶來(lái)鼓舞。這本書(shū)被譯成50種文字，在世界各國(guó)流傳。以后又寫(xiě)了許多文字和幾部自傳性小說(shuō)，表明黑暗與寂靜并不存在。后來(lái)凱勒成了卓越的社會(huì)改革家，到美國(guó)各地，到歐洲、亞洲發(fā)表演說(shuō)，為盲人、

15、聾啞人籌集資金。二戰(zhàn)期間，又訪問(wèn)多所醫(yī)院，慰問(wèn)失明士兵，她的精神受人們崇敬。1964年被授于美國(guó)公民最高榮譽(yù)總統(tǒng)自由勛章，次年又被推選為世界十名杰出婦女之一。 請(qǐng)看海倫、凱勒生平： 1880年6月27出生在美國(guó)亞拉巴馬州塔斯喀姆比亞。 1882年1月因患猩紅熱致盲致聾。 1887年3月安妮·沙利文成為凱勒的老師。 1899年6月考入哈佛大學(xué)拉德克利夫女子學(xué)院。 19021903撰寫(xiě)出版我的一生（有的譯作我生活的故事）。 1904年6月以優(yōu)等成績(jī)大學(xué)畢業(yè)。 19081913 著我的天地（又譯作我生活中的世界）、石墻之歌、沖出黑暗。 1916年遭受婚姻不幸。 1919年應(yīng)邀去好萊塢主演電

16、影。 1924年成為美國(guó)盲人基金會(huì)的主要領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。 1929年著我的后半生（也譯作中流我以后的生活）。 1930年旅游英國(guó)。 19311933年榮獲坦普爾大學(xué)榮譽(yù)學(xué)位。訪問(wèn)法國(guó)、南斯拉夫、英國(guó)。 1936年10月20日老師安妮·沙利文去世。 19421952年出訪歐、亞、非、澳各大洲十三國(guó)。 1953年美國(guó)上映凱勒生活和工作的記錄片不可征服的人。 1955年著老師：安妮·沙利文·梅西 榮獲哈佛大學(xué)榮譽(yù)學(xué)位 1959年聯(lián)合國(guó)發(fā)起“海倫·凱勒”世界運(yùn)動(dòng)。 1960年美國(guó)海外盲人基金會(huì)頒布“海倫·凱勒”獎(jiǎng)金。 1964年榮獲總統(tǒng)自由勛章。 1968年6

17、月1日與世長(zhǎng)辭。 海倫·凱勒從小雙目失明，又聾又啞，她靠用手觸摸、用嘴嘗味、用鼻嗅聞，來(lái)熟悉周圍黑暗沉寂的世界。看起來(lái)那局限之大她簡(jiǎn)直無(wú)可奈何。你怎么去教一個(gè)聽(tīng)不見(jiàn)的人？她不會(huì)說(shuō)話，你怎么知道她需要什么？她既看不見(jiàn)又聽(tīng)不見(jiàn)，可是她到底是怎樣知道你在哪兒的？海倫·凱勒在精神上不屈服于這種清冷生活。由于連詛咒和抱怨都不可能，她只好用身體的劇烈晃動(dòng)對(duì)父母和周圍的人發(fā)脾氣，來(lái)說(shuō)明她心灰意冷的心境?？磥?lái)她命中注定要在與世隔絕的無(wú)聲世界里絕望地度過(guò)一生?？墒?，一個(gè)卓越非凡的年輕女子闖進(jìn)了她的生活，此人可以看作生活中的強(qiáng)人，她就是安妮·沙利文。海倫·凱勒的父母雇用了她，讓她來(lái)排除女兒的孤獨(dú)、撫平她的怒氣，因?yàn)檫@一切已讓他們心灰意冷、垂頭喪氣。安妮·沙利文完全意識(shí)到自己的困難，也意識(shí)到自己的任務(wù)幾乎毫無(wú)希望可言，可是她仍暗下決心去教這個(gè)孩子，讓她同自己無(wú)法到達(dá)的世界進(jìn)行交流。這是同明顯不可能的事情進(jìn)行的一場(chǎng)廝殺，其挫折和失望能讓最堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的人氣餒、卻步，可是她卻默默忍受下來(lái)，而且數(shù)月一直如此。她只是拒絕失敗。突然有一天，當(dāng)太多的失望令人灰心喪氣，而希望好象永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)降臨時(shí)，海倫發(fā)出了一聲表示理解的聲