All day Miss Sullivan kept touching Helen's hand, spelling words that gave Helen a language.

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It was probably coined by this journalist named O'Sullivan, although now there's a new theory that it wasn't.

一般认为记者奥沙利文发明了这个词,尽管现在有新理论认为他们并没有联系

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