I am told that while I was still in (可连读）long dresses I showed many signs of（可连读） an eager（可连读）， self-asserting disposition（应该是短i，听者像长i缩短的音）.Everything that I saw other people do I insisted upon imitating. At six months I could pipe out "How d'ye," and one day I attracted（tr应该有舌尖滑动的动作）every one's attention by saying "Tea, tea, tea" quite plainly. Even after my illness I remembered one of the words I had learned in these early months. It was the word "water," and I continued to make some sound for that word after all other（可连读） speech was lost. I ceased （舌头应再压住一点） making the sound "wah-wah" only when I （可连读）learned to spell the word.
They tell me I walked the day I was a year old. My mother had just taken me out of the bath-tub and was holding me in her lap, when I was suddenly attracted by the flickering shadows （听着有点off）of leaves that danced in the sunlight on the smooth floor. I slipped from my mother's lap and almost ran toward them. The impulse gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up（phrasal verb，up应该比take重读） in her arms.
