莎利文：點亮海倫·凱勒的世界

Annie Sullivan, was an American teacher best known as the instructor and companion of Helen Keller.
安妮·莎利文是一位美國教師，因其和海倫·凱勒亦師亦友的關係而聞名於世。

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present. Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for "mug", Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll.
莎利文於1887年3月來到海倫家，很快就開始用在手心拼字的方法幫助海倫與外界溝通。她教給海倫的第一個詞是“dolly”，因爲當時她送給海倫的第一件禮物是一個洋娃娃。起初，海倫感到很沮喪，因爲她完全不能理解每一件事物都有自己對應的詞語。事實上，當莎利文試圖教她mug這個詞時，海倫沮喪到了極點，甚至把那個洋娃娃給摔壞了。

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water".
一個月後，當莎利文讓水滴在海倫的一隻手上，同時在另一隻手上拼出“water”這個詞時。海倫終於頓悟了！

As lifelong companions Sullivan and Keller continually lived, worked, and traveled together. Helen Keller once said: "The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me."
作爲海倫的朋友，莎利文終生陪伴在她身邊，她們一起生活，一起工作，一起旅行。海倫曾說：“我生命中最重要的一天就是莎利文來到我身邊的那一天。”