6 Chapter 4 A Ray of Hope

Chapter 4 A Ray of Hope Accompanied by the Captain and her Aunt Evelyn, Helen went to see Dr. Bell. Her mother carefully curled Helen's hair before she left. Helen looked like an angel. She was about six years old now.

第4章希望之光在船长和伊芙琳姨妈的陪同下，海伦去看医生。 钟。海伦离开前，母亲仔细地把她的头发卷好。 海伦看起来像个天使。 她现在大约六岁了。

Helen walked into Bell's office, and the two became friends right away. Helen got on Bell's lap. The young child and the inventor felt at home with each other. Helen later wrote in her autobiography, "He understood my signs, and I knew it and loved him at once." Bell felt that Helen could learn. He thought she was a smart and sensible girl. He wanted to see her succeed. Maybe, just maybe, Helen Keller could lead a more normal life.

海伦走进贝尔的办公室，两人立刻成为了朋友。 海伦坐在贝尔的腿上。这个小孩和发明家彼此都觉得很自在。 海伦后来在她的自传中写道:“他理解了我的暗示，我知道了，立刻爱上了他。” 贝尔觉得海伦可以学习。 他认为她是一个聪明懂事的女孩。 他希望看到她成功。 也许，只是也许，海伦·凯勒可以过一种更正常的生活。

Bell gave Helen his watch to play with as he talked to Captain. He told Captain to write to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts (later called Perkins School). Dr. Bell told Captain that forty years earlier a deafblind child, Laura Bridgman, had been taught to read, write, and talk with hand signals. He was sure that the Kellers could find a teacher for Helen there.

贝尔一边和船长说话，一边把他的手表给海伦玩。 他让船长写信给马萨诸塞州波士顿的珀金斯盲人学院(后来被称为珀金斯学校)。 贝尔博士告诉船长，四十年前，一个叫劳拉·布里奇曼的聋哑儿童被教导用手势阅读、写作和说话。 他确信凯勒一家能在那儿给海伦找个老师。

Once back at home, Captain wrote to the head of the Perkins School. Captain Keller wrote that he needed a teacher for his daughter. The Kellers waited anxiously for his reply. Michael Anagnos, the head of Perkins, wrote back that he did have a teacher in mind. Her name was Anne Sullivan. The Kellers were thrilled. What they did not know was that Anne Sullivan still needed to be convinced to take the job. Who was Anne Sullivan? Anne, or Annie as she was called, was an orphan who had had a very hard and lonely life. As a child, she had been partially blind. She was sent to the Perkins School and later on, operations restored her sight. Annie graduated first in her class at Perkins. Like Helen Keller, she was very bright and also very stubborn.

一回到家，船长就写信给珀金斯学校的校长。 凯勒船长写信说他需要给女儿找个老师。 凯勒一家焦急地等待着他的答复。 帕金斯学院的负责人迈克尔·阿纳戈诺斯回信说，他确实在考虑一位老师。 她的名字叫安妮·沙利文。 凯勒一家非常激动。 他们不知道的是，安妮·沙利文仍然需要被说服才能接受这份工作。 安妮·沙利文是谁?安妮，或者人们叫她安妮，是一个孤儿，过着非常艰难和孤独的生活。 小时候，她有部分失明。 她被送到珀金斯学校，后来通过手术恢复了视力。 安妮以全班第一名的成绩毕业于珀金斯大学。 像海伦·凯勒一样，她很聪明，也很固执。

At twenty, Annie had never been a teacher. She was not sure she could do the job, or even that she wanted it. Mr. Anagnos kept encouraging her. He felt that this lonely, intelligent young woman would be right for the job. And Annie did not have many other choices open to her. It was either the teaching job or a job in a factory. Annie decided to take the job with the Kellers.

20岁时，安妮从未当过老师。 她不确定自己能否胜任这份工作，甚至不确定自己是否想要这份工作。 阿纳戈诺斯先生一直在鼓励她。 他觉得这位孤独而聪明的年轻女子很适合这份工作。 安妮也没有太多其他的选择。 要么是教书，要么是在工厂工作。 安妮决定接受凯勒家的工作。

Annie took two months to prepare for her new job. She had met Laura Bridgman. She learned the manual alphabet. She talked to Laura by spelling into her hand. Now she studied the different ways to teach the manual alphabet. Annie prepared the best that she could. But really she had no idea what lay before her or how her new job would change her life.

安妮花了两个月的时间为新工作做准备。 她见过劳拉·布里奇曼。 她学会了手语字母。 她在劳拉的手上拼写，跟她说话。 现在，她研究了教手语字母的不同方法。 安妮尽她所能做好了准备。 但实际上，她不知道在她面前的是什么，也不知道她的新工作将如何改变她的生活。