卢勇　　
2002-7-3

　 1880年6月27日，海伦·凯勒诞生于美国亚拉巴马州北部的一个城镇。她的一生为人们树立了与命运拼搏的榜样。
　　
　　 海伦·凯勒是举世敬仰的作家和教育家。尽管命运之神夺走了她的视力和听力，这位女子却用勤奋和坚韧不拔的精神紧紧扼住了命运的喉咙。她的名字已经成为坚韧不拔意志的象征，传奇般的一生成为鼓舞人们战胜厄运的巨大精神力量。
　　
　　 ■“假如给我三天光明，我第一眼想看的就是我亲爱的老师。”
　　
　　 在一岁零七个月时，突如其来的猩红热产生的高烧使海伦失明、失聪，成为一个集盲、聋、哑于一身的残疾人。由于聋盲儿童没有获取正确信息的途径，心灵之窗被禁锢造成她性格乖戾，脾气暴躁。7岁那一年，安妮·莎利文老师来到她的身边，此后半个世纪一直与海伦朝夕相伴，用爱心和智慧引导她走出无尽的黑暗和孤寂。海伦一生创造的奇迹，都与这位年轻杰出的聋哑儿童教育家密不可分。海伦在她的名作《假如给我三天光明》一文中深情地抒发她对莎利文老师的爱：“假如给我三天光明，我第一眼想看的就是我亲爱的老师。”
　　
　　 莎利文到海伦家担任家庭教师的那一天，就送给她一个玩具娃娃，并用手指在海伦的小手上慢慢地、反复地拼写“d-o-l-l”（玩具娃娃）这个单词。海伦立刻对这种游戏产生了浓厚兴趣。她一遍又一遍地模仿着老师的动作，从此开始懂得世间万物都有各自的名字，开始知道自己的名字叫“Helen Keller”（海伦·凯勒）。此后，海伦陆续学习并掌握了法语、德语、拉丁语、希腊语。聋盲却能掌握五门语言，海伦的成功被称为“教育史上最伟大的成就”。
　　
　　 海伦的“哑”是因为丧失听力而造成，声带并没有受损。十岁那年，海伦开始学习说话，因听不到别人和自己的声音，只能用手去感受老师发音时喉咙、嘴唇的运动，然后进行成千上万次的模仿和纠音。当首次像正常人那样说出“天气真热”这句话时，惊喜之余，她和莎利文老师都意识到，在她们顽强的毅力面前，再没有克服不了的困难。海伦的一生中，在世界各地巡回演讲甚至成为她事业的重要组成部分。
　　
　　 她除了嗜书如命，还喜欢骑马、游泳、划船，酷爱戏剧表演艺术,靠着不屈不挠的意志，海伦学会了唇读，可以通过“手”听到马克·吐温为她朗诵的短篇小说，以优等的成绩完成了世界名校哈佛大学的学业。读书不但使海伦成为一个学富五车的学者，也陶冶了她美好的心灵。
　　
　　 她喜欢信马由缰地徜徉在森林中，也喜欢月夜泛舟，靠水草、睡莲散发出的芬芳来辨别方向。她还喜欢骑着双人自行车兜风，在飞驰中体会力量和速度，并像男孩子一样喜欢在国际象棋的较量中斗智斗勇……她还爱大自然，站在尼亚加拉大瀑布前虽看不到飞流直下三千尺的人间胜景，听不到那震耳欲聋的轰鸣，却可以从空气的震颤中领略到世界最宏大的瀑布的雄奇壮观。
　　
　　 在博物馆和艺术品商店里，海伦就像用手指去“观察”写在人们脸上的喜怒哀乐一样，可以用灵巧的十指去感受古希腊雕塑之美，从那些变幻的线条中“看到”月亮女神狄安娜的清新和维纳斯的秀美。1937年，海伦访问日本时受到特殊礼遇，被允许用手抚摸皇室的艺术珍藏和被视为日本国宝的中国鉴真和尚塑像。
　　
　　 ■马克·吐温称她和拿破仑是19世纪最杰出的两个人物
　　
　　 海伦师从莎利文学习三个月后，就开始尝试用稚嫩的文字表达自己的感受，写出了有生以来的第一封信。从1902年4月开始，她又在莎利文老师的帮助下，开始在美国的一家杂志上连载她的自传《我生活的故事》。第二年结集出版后轰动了美国文坛，甚至被誉为1902年世界文学上最重要的两大贡献之一。
　　
　　 许多人不相信，如此优美的文字居然出自一个聋盲人之手。虽有马克·吐温为此作证，还是平息不了怀疑。不过海伦平生的成就对此作出了最好的回答：她一生共出版专著14部。一个世纪以来，《我生活的故事》被翻译成五十多种文字，传遍了世界每个角落。曾有专家称其“就文学成就来说，和卢梭的《忏悔录》相比毫不逊色。”如果说海伦那种紧紧扼住命运喉咙的顽强毅力令人鼓舞的话，那么她的爱心更是留给世界的宝贵财富。刚开始跟莎利文老师学习的时候，聪颖的小海伦很容易就学会了拼写身边许多物品的名称，可是却理解不了“爱”这种非常抽象的名词。年轻的莎利文把她的爱心化作无比的耐心，使得海伦越过了盲聋学生学习中难以逾越的障碍，而小海伦在学习知识的同时，也学到了莎利文老师的爱心。凭着这份爱心，10岁的海伦为一个5岁聋盲儿童成功地募集到了两年的教育费用。也许从那时起，她就已经立志要帮助世界上所有像她这样需要帮助的人。
　　
　　 她给世界以爱心，世界回报她崇高的荣誉。1919年，海伦的故事被好莱坞搬上银幕，由她本人出任主演。1955年，她荣获哈佛大学的荣誉学位，成为历史上第一个受此殊荣的妇女。
　　
　　 从海伦童年时起，每一任美国总统都邀请她到白宫做客，还被政府称为全美三十名为国家做出突出贡献的杰出人士之一，荣获过美国总统亲自颁发的 “自由奖”，并被誉为美国的高级公民。1959年，联合国在全球发起以她的名字命名的“海伦·凯勒”运动，以资助世界各地的聋盲儿童。1960年，描写她成长经历的剧本《奇迹的创造者》获普利策奖，并被拍成电影。同年，美国海外盲人基金会在海伦八十岁生日那天，宣布颁发“国际海伦·凯勒奖金”，以奖励那些为盲人公共事业做出杰出贡献的人。1968年6月1日，88岁高龄的海伦走完了传奇般的一生。
　　
　　 人类在发展的历程中，有着许多宝贵的共同点。世界上不同肤色、不同制度下的人们都能从海伦的故事中汲取力量，激励斗志，这是因为那种不畏困难勇于同自身弱点拼搏的精神，始终是人类共同的精神财富。
　　

资料来源：转自 : 北京青年报

hehe,我听得看得好感动好感动喔！明天我贴英文原版，哈哈——

We reported last week that Helen Keller suffered from a strange sickness when she was only 19 months old. It made her completely blind and deaf. For the next five years she had no way of successfully communicating with other people. Then a teacher Anne Sullivan arrived from Boston to help her. Miss Sullivan herself had once been blind. She tried to teach Helen to live like other people. She taught her how to use her hands as a way of speaking. Miss Sullivan took Helen out into the woods to explore nature. They also went to the circus, the theatre., and even to factories. Miss Sullivan explained everything in the language she and Helen used, a language of touch, of fingers and hands. Helen also learned how to ride to horse, to swim, to row a boat, and even to climb trees.

　　Helen Keller once wrote about these early days.

　　One beautiful spring morning I was alone in my room, reading. Suddenly a wonderful smell in the air made me get up and put out my hands . The spirit of spring seemed to be passing in my room. "What is it?"I asked. The next minute I knew it was coming from mimosa tree outside. I walked outside to the edge of the garden, toward the tree. There it was, shaking in the warm sunshine. Its long branches, so heavy with flowers, almost touched the ground. I walked through the flowers to the tree itself and then just stood silent. Then I put my foot on the tree and pulled myself up into it. I climbed higher and higher until I reached a little seat. Long ago someone had put it there. I sat for a long time... Nothing in all the world was like this.

　　Later Helen learned that nature could be cruel as well as beautiful. Strangely enough she discovery this in a different kind of tree.

　　One day my teacher and I were returning from a long walk. It was a fine morning but it started to get warm and heavy. We stopped to rest two or three times. Our last stop was under a cherry tree, a short way from our house. The shade was nice and the tree was easy to climb. Miss Sullivan climbed with me. It was so coot up in the tree, we decided to have lunch there. I promised to sit still until she went to the house for some food. Suddenly a change came over the tree. I knew the sky was black because all the heat which meant light to me had died out of the air. A strange odor came up to me from the earth . I knew it. It was the odor which always comes before a thunder storm. I felt alone, cut off from friends, high above the firm earth. I was frightened and wanted my teacher. wanted to get down from that tree quickly, but I was no help to myself. There was a moment of' terrible silence. Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me. I almost fell. I wanted to jump, but was afraid to do so. I tried to make myself small in the tree as the branches rubbed against me. Just us I thought that both the tree and I were going to fall, a hand touched me . It was my teacher. I held her with all my strength, then shook with joy to feel the solid earth under my feet.

　　Miss Sullivan stayed with Helen for many year. She taught Helen how to read, how to write and how to speak. She helped her to get ready for school and college. More than anything, Helen wanted to do what others did, and do it just as well. In time Helen did go to college and completed her studies with high honors. But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages. Miss Sullivan and others had to teach her what was in these books by forming words in her hands. The study of geometry and physics was especially difficult. Helen could only learn about squares, triangles and other geometrical forms by making them with wires. She kept feeling the different shapes of these wires until she could see them in her mind.

　　During her second year college Miss Keller wrote the story of her life and what a college meant to her. This is what she wrote.

　　My first day at Radcliffe college was of great interest. Some powerful force inside me made me test my mind. I wanted to learn if it was as good as that of others. I learned many things at college. One thing I slowly learned was that knowledge does not just mean power, as some people say. Knowledge leads to happiness because to have it is to know what is true and real. To know what great man of the past had thought, said, and done is to feel the heartbeat of humanity down through the ages.

　　All of Helen Keller's knowledge reached her mind through her sense of touch and smell, and of course her feelings. To know a flower was to touch it, feel it and smell it. This sense of touch became greatly developed as she got older. She once said that hands speak almost as loudly as words. She said the touch of some hands frightened her. The people seemed so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking bands with a storm. She found the hands of others full of sunshine and warmth. Strangely enough Helen Keller learned to love things she could not hear, music for example. She did this through her sense of touch. When waves of air beat against her, she felt them. Sometimes she put her hand to a singer's throat. She often stood for hours with her hands on a piano while it was played. Once she listened to an organ. Its powerful songs made her moved her body in rhythm with the music. She also liked to go to museums. She thought she understood sculptures as well as others. Her fingers told her the true size and the feel of the material.

　　What did Helen Keller think of herself, what did she think about the tragic lost of her sight and hearing. This is what she wrote as a young girl.

　　Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist. I sit alone, and wait at life ' s shut-door. Beyond there is light and music and sweet friendship. But I may not enter. Silence sits heavy upon my soul. Then comes hope with a sweet smile and said
softly " There is joy in forgetting oneself And so I tried to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.
　　Helen Keller was tall and strong. When she spoke, her face looked very alive. It helped to give meaning to her words. She often felt the faces of close friends when she was talking to them to discover their feelings. She and Miss Sullivan both were known for their sense of humor. They enjoyed jokes and laughing at funny things that happened to themselves or others. Helen Keller had to work hard to support herself after she finished college. She spoke to many groups around the country. She wrote several books and she made one movie based on her life. Her main goal was to increase public interest in the difficulties of people with physical problems. The work Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan did has been written and talked about for many years. Their success showed how people can conquer great difficulties. Anne Sullivan died in 1936, blind herself. Before Miss Sullivan died, Helen wrote and said many kind things about her.

　　It was the genius of my teacher, her sympathy, her love which made my first years of education so beautiful. My teacher is so near to me that I do not think of myself as a part from her. All the best of me belongs to her. Everything I am today was awakened by her loving touch .

　　Helen Keller died on June 1st, 1968. She was 87 year old. Her message of courage and hope remains.

我看完了她的整本自传（新出的《假如给我三天光明》纪念版）。很感动，不过……好象在中国就出不了一个这样的奇迹。

确实……二十世纪人类的奇迹！

以为是我贴的那文的原文。

ＸＷＯＬＦ在上个帖子中说

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我看完了她的整本自传（新出的《假如给我三天光明》纪念版）。很感动，不过……好象在中国就出不了一个这样的奇迹。

确实……二十世纪人类的奇迹！

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看的书？
网上有没？
搜ing....
我只看过影片

我没看过

看书比较好，两本自传加那篇著名散文……！电影虽然是她自己演的，但……拍得不好！