Helen Keller海伦 凯勒 简介 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. 幼时患病，两耳失聪，双目失明。七岁时，安妮·沙利文担任她的家庭教师，从此成了她的良师益友，相处达50年。在沙利文帮助之下，进入大学学习，以优异成绩毕业。在大学期间，写了我生命的故事，讲述她如何战胜病残，给成千上万的残疾人和正常人带来鼓舞。这本书被译成50种文字，在世界各国流传。以后又写了许多文字和几部自传性小说，表明黑暗与寂静并不存在。后来凯勒成了卓越的社会改革家，到美国各地，到欧洲、亚洲发表演说，为盲人、

15、聋哑人筹集资金。二战期间，又访问多所医院，慰问失明士兵，她的精神受人们崇敬。1964年被授于美国公民最高荣誉总统自由勋章，次年又被推选为世界十名杰出妇女之一。 请看海伦、凯勒生平： 1880年6月27出生在美国亚拉巴马州塔斯喀姆比亚。 1882年1月因患猩红热致盲致聋。 1887年3月安妮·沙利文成为凯勒的老师。 1899年6月考入哈佛大学拉德克利夫女子学院。 19021903撰写出版我的一生（有的译作我生活的故事）。 1904年6月以优等成绩大学毕业。 19081913 著我的天地（又译作我生活中的世界）、石墙之歌、冲出黑暗。 1916年遭受婚姻不幸。 1919年应邀去好莱坞主演电

16、影。 1924年成为美国盲人基金会的主要领导人。 1929年著我的后半生（也译作中流我以后的生活）。 1930年旅游英国。 19311933年荣获坦普尔大学荣誉学位。访问法国、南斯拉夫、英国。 1936年10月20日老师安妮·沙利文去世。 19421952年出访欧、亚、非、澳各大洲十三国。 1953年美国上映凯勒生活和工作的记录片不可征服的人。 1955年著老师：安妮·沙利文·梅西 荣获哈佛大学荣誉学位 1959年联合国发起“海伦·凯勒”世界运动。 1960年美国海外盲人基金会颁布“海伦·凯勒”奖金。 1964年荣获总统自由勋章。 1968年6

17、月1日与世长辞。 海伦·凯勒从小双目失明，又聋又哑，她靠用手触摸、用嘴尝味、用鼻嗅闻，来熟悉周围黑暗沉寂的世界。看起来那局限之大她简直无可奈何。你怎么去教一个听不见的人？她不会说话，你怎么知道她需要什么？她既看不见又听不见，可是她到底是怎样知道你在哪儿的？海伦·凯勒在精神上不屈服于这种清冷生活。由于连诅咒和抱怨都不可能，她只好用身体的剧烈晃动对父母和周围的人发脾气，来说明她心灰意冷的心境。看来她命中注定要在与世隔绝的无声世界里绝望地度过一生。可是，一个卓越非凡的年轻女子闯进了她的生活，此人可以看作生活中的强人，她就是安妮·沙利文。海伦·凯勒的父母雇用了她，让她来排除女儿的孤独、抚平她的怒气，因为这一切已让他们心灰意冷、垂头丧气。安妮·沙利文完全意识到自己的困难，也意识到自己的任务几乎毫无希望可言，可是她仍暗下决心去教这个孩子，让她同自己无法到达的世界进行交流。这是同明显不可能的事情进行的一场厮杀，其挫折和失望能让最坚强的人气馁、却步，可是她却默默忍受下来，而且数月一直如此。她只是拒绝失败。突然有一天，当太多的失望令人灰心丧气，而希望好象永远不会降临时，海伦发出了一声表示理解的声