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I felt approaching footsteps. I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother. Some onetook it, and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal allthings to me, and, more than all things else, to love me.
我感覺到了走近的腳步聲，我伸出手，就像迎接母親那樣。有個人抓住了我的手，我被她緊緊地抱在懷中，她就是來向我揭示萬事萬物的人。事實上，比揭示萬事萬物更為重要的是，她愛我。
The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. The little blindchildren at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did notknow this until afterward. When I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled intomy hand the word "d-o-l-l." I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it.When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure andpride. Running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters for doll. I didnot know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingersgo in monkey-like imitation. In the days that followed I learned to spell in thisuncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit,stand and walk. But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.
我記得在老師到來之后的次日早晨，她領我來到了她的房間，還給了我一個布娃娃。這個娃娃是帕金斯學院的一個小盲童送給蘇立文小姐的。勞拉?布里吉曼還給娃娃做了衣服穿，我也是后來才知道娃娃的來歷的。當時，我玩了一會兒手上的娃娃，蘇立文小姐則慢慢地在我手上拼寫“doll”這個詞。我立刻對這種手指游戲產生了興趣，并且努力模仿。最終，我正確地拼寫出了單詞，我難以抑制我的快樂和自豪。后來，我跑到樓下母親身旁，我舉起手，然后在上面拼寫出“娃娃”的單詞。當時，我并不知道我拼寫的是一個單詞，我甚至不知道那些字詞是否存在，我只是調皮地用手指加以模仿而已。在隨后的幾天里，我用這種懵懂的方式學會了拼寫很多詞，其中有像“pin，bat，cup”這樣的名詞，還有一些像“sit，stand，walk”之類的動詞。事實上，我是在和老師待了好幾星期后，才知道每件東西都有一個名字。
One day, while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also,spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make me understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both.
有一天，我正在和我的新布娃娃玩的時候，蘇立文小姐就把我的那個大破娃娃放在了我的膝蓋上，她教我拼寫“doll”，而且試圖使我明白，這兩個娃娃都叫“doll”。
