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高中英语北师大版选择性必修第二册课文英汉对照Unit5Lesson1Enlightening aMindLesson1Enlightening aMind启迪心灵Helen Kellerwas anexceptionally specialgirl.By thetime she was sevenyearsold,she stillcouldn tspeak,read orwrite andneeded tohave everythingdonefor her.This wasbecause she couldn tsee orhear.With thesesevere restrictionsto her communication,Helen,s behaviourwas oftenunbearable.She wassometimestroublesome,stubborn andangry,and hada tendencyto breakthings whenno oneunderstoodher.海伦凯勒是一个非常特殊的女孩她七岁时、仍不会说话,不能读书也不会写字,一切都•需要别人照顾这是因为她看不见也听不见这些严重的障碍限制了海伦的正常交流,也让她的行为常常令人难以忍受海伦有时很烦人、很固执而且很易怒如果没有人能理解她的,意思,她就会摔东西Helen,s parentsgot asuperb teacherrecommended to them,a womannamed AnneSullivan.Anne wasa teacherand formerstudent ata schoolfor theblind inBoston.She,d hadeyesight problemsearly inlife aswell soshe couldrelate toHelens difficulties.海伦的父母经人推荐,聘请了一位名叫安妮莎莉文的优秀老师安妮曾是波士顿一所盲人•学校的老师,也曾在那儿上过学她小时候也视力有障碍,所以更能理解海伦所面临的困境Anne stechnique toteach Helenlanguage wassimple andstraightforward.Annespelt wordsby writingon Helen,s handso thatHelen couldget amental pictureof the words.She startedwith the word doll”.She wou1d letHelen playwiththe doll,and thenspell theletters D-CHL-L”on her hand.When theyinitiallydid this,Helen thought it wasa game.She wroteabout herexcitement laterinThe Storyof MyLife
9.安妮教海伦学习语言的方法简单明了她先在海伦手上拼写her book,单词,使海伦联想到单词的画面安妮给海伦拼写的第一个词是她先让海伦和洋娃“doll”娃玩耍然后在海伦的手上拼写刚开始海伦以为这是在玩游戏后来在《我的人,“D-O-L-L”生故事》一书中,海伦描述了自己的兴奋之情aRunning downstairsto mymother,I heldup myhand andmade theletters fordoll.I didnot knowthatI wasspelling a word oreven thatwords existed;I wassimply makingmy fingersgo inmonkey-like imita tion.”我跑下楼去见我母亲举起手来,也给她拼写字母组成可我那时并不知道自己在“,doll拼写单词甚至压根不知道词汇的存在我仅仅是亦步亦趋地用手指模仿老师,”When theywere atthe wellone day,Anne putone ofHelen s hands underthe streamofwater.As thewater flowedover Helens hand,Anne speltout“W-A-T-E-R“intoHelen sother hand.As Annewrote onHelen^shand,Helen suddenlyrealised thatthemovement of the fingersmeant thecool liquidflowing overherhand.Thisprecious knowledgegave herhope andjoy.Finally,she gotthe worldof wordsopenedup toher.一天,她们在井边,安妮把海伦的一只手放在水流下水缓缓流过海伦的手掌,安妮在她的另一只手上拼写安妮在海伦手上写的时候,海伦突然意识到,手指的动作代W-A-T-E-R o表的是流过自己手掌的清凉的液体这宝贵的知识给她带来希望和快乐终于,她打开了语言世界的大门Now thatHelen graspedthe keyto language,shewasvery eagerto learnmore anduseit asmuch as shecould.Children whocan seeand hearlearn languageeasily,but forHelen,it wasa gradualand sometimespainful process.However,becauseHelen wasso enthusiasticabout learning,the resultswere amazing.由于海伦理解了语言的关键,她非常渴望学习更多语言,并且尽可能运用它正常的孩子能听、能看,学起语言来很容易但对海伦来说,学习语言是个渐进的过程,有时会很痛苦然而,因为海伦对学习极高的热情,学习成果令人吃惊As Helens knowledgeand vocabularyexpanded,she askedmore andmore questions.This soonled herto discovermore complex words andchanged herthinking process.Trying tolearn the word“love wasan experiencethat sheremembered well.This随着海伦知识和词汇量的不断扩大,她提出的问is howshe describedit in her book:题也越来越多这使她学会了更复杂的单词,从而改变了思维的过程她很清楚地记得,学习这个单词的难忘经历在书中她这样描述道loveremember themorning thatI firstasked themeaning of thewordlove’.This wasbefore I knewmany words.I hadfound afew earlyviolets inthe gardenand broughtthem tomy teacher・・,MissSullivan puther armgen tlyround meand wroteon myhand,I loveHelen.’What islove Iasked.She drewme closertoherand said,It ishere,pointing tomy heart...Her wordspuzzled meverymuch becauseI didnot thenunderstand anythingunless Itouched it.”我记得有一天早上我第一次问这个词的含义那时我的词汇量还很有限我在“,‘love花园里发现了早开的紫罗兰摘下一些带给老师莎莉文老师温柔,……地搂着我在我的手上写着我爱海伦」什么是爱我问道她把我拉到身边指着我的心,:‘‘‘,脏说爱在这里她的话令我非常困惑因为以往我只有触碰到实际物体,才能理解,‘……,它的意思”Although themeaning oflove wasstill notapparent toHelen,she kepton tryingsmeltthe violetsinherhand andasked,half inwords,half insigns,a questiontounderstand it.which meant,Is lovethe sweetnessof flowers’No,said my teacher.’尽管对海伦来说,爱的意义还不明确,但她一直试着理解我闻了闻她手里的紫罗兰,半“拼写半比划地问了个问题,意思大概是爱是花朵的香味吗不,我的老师回答道”When Helenand Annewere outsideone day,Helen feltthe warmthofthe sun srays.,She pointedup andasked ifthat waslove.When her teacher saidthat itwasn t,/thoughtitstrange thatmyteachercould notshow meshewas confusedand disappointed.一天和老师在室外,海伦感受到了阳光的温暖她指了指太阳,问老师那是不是爱,love.”老师说不是,海伦感到更困惑了,而且有些失望我觉得很奇怪因为我的老师不能给我“,表示什么是爱The word“think”was alsoa difficultone forHelen becauseit issuch anabstractconcept.However,one dayasshewas workingon asimple task,she hada breakthrough.She wasmaking necklaceswith thehelp ofAnne whenshe noticedthat shehad madesomemistakes.Because shewas uncertainhow tofix them,she stoppedto thinkcarefully.As shedid this,Anne touchedHelen,s foreheadand wrotethe wordIna flashIknewthat theword wasthe nameoftheprocess that was going“think”on herhand.on inmy head.”“think”这个词对海伦来说也很难理解,因为它很抽象然而有一天,在做一项简单的任务时,她取得了突破她正在安妮的帮助下做项链,这时她发现自己犯了一些错海伦不确定该如何解决,便停下来认真思考在她思考的时候,安妮点了点海伦的额头,在她的手上写“think”这个词瞬间我就明白了我头脑中进行的活动就是这个词的意思“,”一It wasthe firsttime Helenhad understoodsuch acomplexwordawordfor somethingshecouldn,t touch.At thatmoment,her mindreturned totheword“love”.Asshe thoughtabout itsmeaning again,the suncame out.She pointedtothesun andaskedherteacheragain ifthatwaslove.Anne answeredHelen byexplaining thatlovewas likethesunand cloudsin away.那是海伦第一次明白复杂词语的意思,她触摸不到的抽象词语这时,海伦又想起了love她再次思考是什么意思,恰巧这时太阳出来了海伦指着太阳又问老师那是不是爱o“love”安妮解释道,爱在某种程度上就像太阳和云彩“You cannottouch theclouds,you know;but youfeel therain...You cannottouch loveeither;butyou feelthe sweetnessthat itpours intoeverything.Without loveyou wouldnot behappy orwant toplay.”你知道吗你摸不到云彩但是你能感觉到雨你也触摸不到爱但是你能感觉到爱给“,,……,万物带来的甜蜜没有爱你就不会快乐也不会想玩耍,,”In thatvivid moment,Helen finallyunderstood thebeautiful truthoftheword“love”.就在那个动人的时刻,海伦终于明白了这个词语蕴含的美丽的真谛“love”。