特别广播英语第 245 课：A Blind Woman's Vision 海伦·凯勒─奋斗的人-2

Annie Sullivan taught Helen how to connect objects with letters by spelling words into Helen's hands. 苏利文在海伦手上拼字，借此教她如何将物体和字母联系在一起。

Helen's breakthrough came when Annie held her hand under a water pump while spelling “water” into her other hand repeatedly. 有一次安妮把海伦的手放在水泵出水口下，并且在她的另一支手上重复拼写 water 的时候，

Helen suddenly understood, and from then on progressed by leaps and bounds. 海伦突然明白了，她的学习有了重大突破。从此她进步神速。

Having mastered both the manual and Braille alphabets, Helen became proficient in reading and writing, and began learning how to speak in 1890. 海伦在学会了手指拼字法和布莱耶盲人点字法后，她的阅读和书写能力变得熟练起来；1890年，她开始学习说话。

Helen entered Radcliffe College and, assisted by Annie Sullivan, graduated cum laude in 1904. She was the first blind-deaf person ever to graduate from college. 后来海伦在苏利文的帮助下，进入拉德克利夫 (Radcliffe) 学院就读，1904年以优异的成绩毕业，她成为第一位大学毕业的盲哑人。

Helen Keller spent the rest of her life as a writer, lecturer, and advocate for the deaf and blind and other disadvantaged groups. 海伦·凯勒的余生都致力于写作和演讲，声援盲人、聋人和其他弱势群体。

She traveled to numerous countries on behalf of the disabled, and founded the Helen Keller Endowment Fund for the American Foundation for the Blind in 1930. 她代表残疾人，足迹踏遍海外各国，并且在1930年为美国盲人基金会创建了海伦·凯勒捐赠基金。

She died on June 1, 1968, an outstanding example of the unconquerable human spirit. 海伦·凯勒于1968年6月1日与世长辞，她可以说是人类不屈不挠精神的最佳典范。