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如果给你三天光明(第一天)

2006-01-21 17:57

How would you use your own eyes if you had only three more days to see. If with

the on-coming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise

for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What

would you most want to let your gaze rest upon?

如果你只拥有三天的光明，你该如何用你的双眼看世界？面对即将到来的黑暗，你深知，太阳

对你来说，永不再升起了，那么你该怎样度过这从天而降的宝贵的三天呢？你最想要注视的东西

又是什么呢？让我们随着海伦·凯勒的描述，与这个蔑视苦难的伟大女性一起，踏上这令人耳目

一新的体验之旅吧！

锁定原文 The First Day

On the first day, I should want to see the people

whose kindness and gentleness and

companionship（1） have made my life worth

living. First I should like to gaze long upon（2） the face of my dear teacher, Mrs.

Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and opened the outer world

to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish

it in my memory（3）, but to study that face and find in it the living evidence（4）

of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the

difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of

character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties, and that

compassion for all humanity which she has revealed to(5) me so often.

I do not know what it is to see into（6） the heart of a friend through that

"Window of the soul"（7）, the eye. I can only "see" through（8） my finger tips the

outline of a face. I can detect laughter, sorrow, and many other obvious emotions.

I know my friends from the feel of their faces. But I cannot really picture（9） their

personalities by touch（10）. I know their personalities, of course, through other

means, through the thoughts they express to me, through whatever of their actions

are revealed to me. But I am denied that deeper understanding of them which I am

sure would come through sight of them, through watching their reactions to various

expressed thoughts and circumstances, through noting the immediate and fleeting

reactions of their eyes and countenance（11）.

Friends who are near to me I know well, because through the months and years they

reveal themselves to me in all their phases; but of casual friends I have only an

incomplete impression, an impression gained from a handclasp（12）, from spoken

words which I take from their lips with my finger tips, or which they tap into（13）

the palm of my hand.

How much easier, how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp

quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties（14） of

expression, the quiver of a muscle（15）, the flutter of a hand（16）. But does it ever

occur to you to use your sight to see into the inner nature（17） of a friends？Do not

most of you seeing people grasp casually the outward features of a face and let it go

at that?

For instance can you describe accurately the faces of five good friends? Some of