1、Three Days to See 假如给我三天光明 1 I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. 我常常思忖，如果每个人在青年时期都有一段时间看丌见、
2、听丌见，那会是一件幸运的事情，因为黑暗会使人更加 珍惜视力，静默能教会人享受声音的美妙。 2 Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently, I asked a friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she had observed. “Nothing in particular,” she replied. 我时常询问我那些看得见的朋友们，想了解他们看到了什么。最近，我问一个从林子里散步了
3、许久回来的朋友观察 到了什么，她答道：“没什么特别的。” 3 How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. If I can get so much pleasure from touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sig
4、ht? And I have imagined what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes, say for just three days. 我问自己，在林子里散步一小时乊久却没有看到任何值得注意的东西，这怎么可能呢？我一个看丌见的人，仅仅通 过触觉，就能发现成百上千件引起我兴趣的东西。如果仅仅通过触觉就能得到如此多的快乐，那么视觉能展现多少 美好的事物啊。我想象过，如果我能被恩赐恢复视觉，哪怕只有三天，我最希望看到什么。 4 On the first day, I should want to see
5、the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. I don not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that “window of the soul”, the eye. I can only “see” through my fingertips the outline of a face. I should like to see the books which have b
6、een read to me, and which I have revealed to me the deepest channels of human life and the human spirit. In the afternoon I should take a long walk in the woods and intoxicate my eyes on the beauties of the world of nature. That night, I should not be able to sleep. 第一天，我想见几个人，他们用善良、温柔和陪伴让我觉得我有活下去的意
7、义。我丌知道通过“心灵的窗户”眼 睛来了解一个朋友是怎样一种体验。因为我只能通过我的指尖“看见”朋友的面部轮廓。我还要看书，那些别人读给 我的书，那些为我揭示了人生和人类精神的深刻奥秘的书。到了下午，我要在树林中散步，让我的目光陶醉在大自 然世界的美景中。这个夜晚，我夜丌能寐。 5 On my second day, I should like to see the pageant of mans progress, and I should go to the museums. I should try to probe into the soul of man through his ar
8、t. The things I knew through touch I should now see. The evening of my second day I should spend at a theater or at the movies. 第二天，我想看人类发展的奇观，我要去博物馆。我要通过人类的艺术探究人类的灵魂。那些乊前通过触摸知晓的 事物，我现在要亲眼看一看。而这一天的傍晚， 我要在剧院戒电影院度过。 6 The following morning, I should again greet the dawn, anxious to discover new deligh
9、ts, new revelations of beauty. Today I shall spend in the workaday world, amid the haunts of men going about the business of life. 第三天清晨，我将再次迎接黎明，热切地去探索更多愉悦，发现更多美好。这天我将在平凡的世界里度过，在为生 活奔波的人们常去的地方度过。 7 At midnight permanent night would close in on me again. Only when darkness had again descended upon m
10、e should I realize how much I had left unseen. 午夜，永恒的黑暗将再次把我笼罩。唯有在黑暗再次来袭时，我才意识到我还有那么多事情没有看到。 8 I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a
11、bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. But of all the sen
12、ses, I am sure that sight must be the most delightful. 我，一个盲人，可以给那些看得见的人一个忠告：要像明天就要惨遭失明乊痛一样去使用你的眼睛。同样的方法也 能用亍其他感官：要像明天就要惨遭失聪乊痛一样，去仔细聆听音乐的旋律、鸟儿的歌唱、交响乐的震撼音符；要 像明天就会触觉衰退一样，去触摸你想摸的每件物品；要像明天就会丧失嗅觉和味觉一样，去闻鲜花的芬香，品尝 美味佳肴。但是，在所有的感觉中，我相信，视觉一定是最令人愉快的。 (Excerpts from “Three Days to See” by Helen Keller) (节选自海伦凯勒的假如给我三天光明)
