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.

• 我们家离任何盲校或聋校都很远，看来也不可能会有任何人愿意来我们塔斯坎比亚这样偏僻的地方，教一个又聋又盲的小孩。