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高三英语课文17 高三课文：Unit 17 My Teacher Before Annie Sullivan came to our house, one or two people had told my mother that I was simple-minded. I can understand why. Here was a seven-year-old girl who at the age of 19 months had become deaf and blind. And because I was deaf, I could not learn to speak. Struggling in a world of silence and darkness, I must have appeared to them to be simple. 安妮·莎利文来到我们家之前，已有一两个人告诉我母亲，说我头脑简单。其原因我能理解。一个7岁的女孩，出生19个月后就得了聋盲症。因为我耳聋，我不能学说话。在寂静无声、漆黑一片世界里挣扎，在他们看来，我一定是头脑简单了。 But this was before Annie Sullivan came to stay. She was a lively young woman with patience and imagination. A born teacher, she thought she could turn a deaf-blind person into a useful human being. 但是，这都是安妮·莎利文来住下之前的事了。她是一个活泼的女子，具有耐心和想象力。她是一个天的教师，认为自己可以把一个聋盲人变成一个有用的人。 What a difficult case I must have been to this young teacher! I remember the many times she tried to spell words into my small hand. But neither words nor letters meant anything to me. I thought her finger movements were some kind of game. But at last, on April 5th, 1887, she reached my understanding. About a month after her arrival, she taught me the word water. It happened at the well where I was holding a jar while Annie pumped. As the water flowed onto my hand, she kept spelling w-a-t-e-r into my other hand with her fingers. Suddenly I understood! It was the first joy I had known for years. I reached out to Annies hand. She understood I was begging for new words, for the names of the things I touched. The words - so full of meaning - flew from her hand to mine. Those first words were to change my world. 对这位年轻教师来说，我准是一个多么棘手的病例啊！我记得她许许多多次尝试着在我小手上拼写单词。但是，单词或字母表示什么意思，我全然不懂。我以为她的手指 活动是做某种游戏。可是，终于在1887年4月5日，她使我明白了。她来后的一个月，教我水这个单词。事情发生在水井旁，当时安妮抽水，而我正捧着一个水罐。水流 到我的手上时，她不断地用手指在我另一只手上拼写w-a-t-e-r。我豁然开朗了。这是我多年来第一次感到高兴的事了。我把手伸向安妮的手。她懂得我是在求她教新单词--我所触摸的东西的名称。这些词--意思如此丰富--从她的手流到了我的手。我最先学会的这些单词改变了我的生活天地。 One of the first things Annie did was to teach me how to play. I had not laughed since I became deaf. One da