Read and Explore
阅读与探索
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We tend to take what we have for granted, and seldom do we think about the value of life. Yet, Helen Keller, being both blind and deaf, taught us how to make the fullest use of our wonderful senses to appreciate life from a wholly different view -- with love and passion.
我们越来越不珍惜我们所拥有的,而且我们很少思考生命的价值。双目失明的海伦·凯勒教给我们如何充分利用我们美妙的感官从一个全新的角度——用爱和热情——来欣赏生活。
Three Days to See
假如拥有三天光明
Helen Keller
海伦·凯勒
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly confined.
1我们都读过一些扣人心弦的故事,主人公将不久于人世,长则1年,短则24小时。而我们总是很感兴趣,这个即将辞世的人会如何度过他最后的时日。当然,我指的是拥有选择权利的自由人,不是那些活动范围受到严格限制的死囚。
Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations, should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?
这一类故事会促使我们思考,在类似的处境下,我们自己会做些什么?身为生命有限的人类,我们会把什么样的事件、经历、联想,塞进这最后的时光里?回首往事,我们又会有哪些快乐和遗憾呢?