I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama.

我于1880年6月27日出生在亚拉巴马州北部的一个叫做图斯康比亚的小镇。

Reports reached Tuscumbia that there was a book in print called The Frost Fairies by Margaret T. Canby.

有消息传到图斯康比亚，说玛格丽特·坎比的一本名为《冰霜仙女》的书正在印刷中。

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

海伦凯勒于 1880 年 6 月 27 日出生在阿拉巴马州的图斯坎比亚。

The small town of Tuscumbia looked like towns in New England.

Tuscumbia 小镇看起来像新英格兰的城镇。

We lived a long way from any school for the blind or the deaf, and it seemed unlikely that any one would come to such an out-of-the-way place as Tuscumbia to teach a child who was both deaf and blind.

当时，我们家离任何一所盲人或聋哑学校都很远，而且，似乎也不会有任何人能跑到像图斯康比亚这种偏僻的地方，就为了教一个又聋又瞎的小孩子。