This week we tell about Helen Keller. She was blind and deaf but she became a famous writer and teacher.
VOA: special.2009.11.08
He was not blind, he was not deaf, he was not retarded, but something else happened to him.
他并没有失明,没有失聪,也没有变成弱智,但在他身上却发生了一些其它变化
And after a toxic insult, they are gone. This is what the inner ear of a person who is deaf looks like.
受到损伤后,毛细胞没了,耳朵失聪的人的内耳就是这幅摸样。
That measure freed the slaves in the rebel states of the South, though Lincoln's words fell on deaf ears.
VOA: special.2009.10.15
But when it was all said and done he wasn't blind, he wasn't deaf, didn't lose language, didn't become aphasic, no paralysis, no retardation.
手术完成,他没有失明,没有失聪,没有失去语言能力,没有患失语症,没有麻痹,没有反应迟钝。
She never forgot these days. Later in life, she wrote: "No deaf child can ever forget the excitement of his first word.
VOA: special.2009.11.08
It's quiet, it's warm, Now imagine you're born deaf, you cannot hear, you cannot communicate by spoken words with your friends and family.
四周一片寂静,温暖,再来假设你自幼失聪,不能和家人,朋友用语言交流。
Alexander Graham Bell believed one day machines would be invented to help deaf people hear and speak.
VOA: special.2010.05.14
There are stories of deaf people who are within certain societies where nobody signs to them, and so they're what's known as linguistic isolates.
还有些关于生活在并无手语的,特定社会下聋人的故事,这种情况就是所谓的语言隔离
It shows the deaf and blind activist and writer Helen Keller as a young child.
VOA: special.2010.01.27
So, Susan Goldin-Meadow has studied deaf children that nobody signed to but what she studies is deaf children with deaf siblings and these children don't just sit there.
苏珊·葛丁麦道研究了,并无手语环境的失聪儿童,但她的研究发现,拥有失聪兄妹的失聪儿童,他们并不会傻坐在那
Only the deaf can understand how I felt when my dog obeyed my spoken command."
VOA: special.2009.11.08
So very egoistically that I'm not turning deaf at some point.
因此,从自私的角度来说,我不会变聋。
The next year Bell moved to Boston,Massachusetts, to teach at a school for the deaf.
VOA: special.2010.05.14
And again, as a result of this, Elliot was not struck blind or deaf or retarded, and he didn't become the sort of profane character that Phineas Gage became, but he lost the ability to prioritize.
再一次,结果是,埃利奥特没有失明,失聪或反应迟钝,他也没有变得喜欢亵渎他人,像菲尼亚斯那样,但是他失去了给事情优先排序的能力。
But it was painful to her family to see their deaf and blind child punished.
VOA: special.2009.11.08
It was a strange sickness that made her completely blind and deaf.
VOA: special.2009.11.08
She helped millions of people who,like her,were blind and deaf.
VOA: special.2009.11.15
For most of his life, Bell worked with deaf people.
VOA: special.2010.05.14
It made her completely blind and deaf.
VOA: special.2009.11.15
Most students at Gallaudet are deaf;
VOA: special.2011.04.13
Considered a hero in the deaf community, Parkin is competing in road cycling at the Taipei Deaflympics.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
Despite extensive training, few deaf athletes make a name for themselves outside of deaf sporting competition.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
A bullhorn sounds indicating timeouts. But because the players are deaf, backboard-mounted lights also flash to insure the players knew what was going on.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
To ensure good communication with the competitors, officials and referees must also be deaf.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
That helps as the athletes meet deaf people from other countries;
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
An exception is Terence Parkin, a deaf swimmer from South Africa.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
Green is go. And for example, in taekwondo or judo, when the referee calls a foul, all the lights will start shining" Despite the adaptations, deaf athletes do face additional hurdles.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
"You have to talk to them." They especially want answers about then Cardinal Ratzinger and his involvement in the transfer of a priest who abused some 200 deaf American children 30 years ago.
VOA: standard.2010.04.01
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