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假如给我三天光明（5）
所以，我想象中恢复光明的第二天的夜晚，戏剧文学中的许多伟大形象将挤进我的梦想。
第三天
下一天的清晨，我将再次去迎接那初升的旭日，希望发现新的欢乐。因为我确信，那些能真正看到东西的人肯定会发现，每个黎明都充满了千姿万态、变幻无穷的美。
根据我想象中奇迹的日期，这是我恢复光明的第三天，也是最后一天。我没有时间去遗憾或渴望了，那儿有太多的东西要去看。我把第一天给了我的朋友，给了那些有生命和没有生命的人间万物，第二天展现在我面前的是人类和自然的历史。今天我要在现实世界里，在从事日常生活的人们中间度过。除了纽约你还能在别的什么地方发现人类这么多的活动和这样纷繁的情景呢？于是纽约成为我的目的地。
我从位于安谧的长岛森林山郊区的家中出发。许多整洁的小屋在绿地、树木、鲜花的拥抱中，充满妇女儿童说笑走动的欢乐声音在四周回荡，这里真是城市劳动者安静的休息之所。当我驱车穿越横跨东河的钢式网状桥时，感觉到了新的激动，感受到人类内心的智慧和力量。河上千帆竞发、百舸争流。如果我以前能看见东西的话，我将用很多时间来欣赏河上热闹活动。
举目前望，面前耸立着奇异的纽约塔，这城市就像是从神话故事的书页中跳出来似的。这是多么令人激动敬畏的奇景啊！这些闪闪发光的尖塔，这些钢和石块构筑的巨大堤岸，就像神为自己修建的一样。这幅有生气的画卷是千百万人每日生活的一部分，我担心很少有人能够注意这些。他们眼睛经常无视这些壮丽景观的存在，因为他们对这些已经太熟悉了。
我匆匆忙忙登上那些大型建筑之一——帝国大厦的顶层，就在不久前，我在那里通过秘书的眼睛“看到”了脚下的城市。我急于把我的想象和真实世界作一次比较。我坚信展现在我面前的这幅画卷绝不会使我失望，因为对于我来说它将是另一个世界的景况。
现在我开始周游这个城市。首先我站在繁忙的一隅，只是看来往的人群，试着从观察中去了解他们生活中的一些东西。看到他们微笑，我也开心；看到他们如此果断，我感到骄傲；看到他们遭受痛苦，我深感同情。
我漫游到第五大道，将视野从聚精会神的注视中解放出来，以便不留意特殊的事物而只看一看瞬息万变的色彩。我相信人流中妇女衣着的色彩，肯定是我最看不厌的灿烂奇观。不过，假如我能看见的话，可能我也会像大多数妇女一样，过分地注重服装的个性化风格和个性化的剪裁式样而忽略宏观色彩的壮美。我还确信我会变成一个橱窗前的常客，因为去观看橱窗中五光十色的美丽商品一定会令眼睛愉悦。
从第五大道开始游览整个城市——我要到花园大街去，至贫民区去，到工厂去，到孩子们嬉戏的公园去。通过访问外国居民我作了一次不离本土的境外旅行。对于开心和伤痛等一切东西我都是睁大眼睛去关心，以便能深刻探索和进一步了解人们是如何工作和生活的。我的心里充满了对人和物的想象，我的目光将轻轻地滑过但不漏下任何一个细小的东西，它力图紧紧抓住它所凝视的每一件事物。有些场景是令人愉快的，内心充满了喜悦，可有些情景却使感到悲哀和忧郁。我不会对后者闭上眼睛，因为它们也是生活的一部分，对它们闭上眼睛就等于关闭了心灵，禁锢了思想。
我恢复光明的第三天就要结束了，可能我应该把这剩下的几小时用于许多重要的探索上，可是我担心在这最后一夜，我会再次跑到剧院去看一出狂喜的滑稽戏；以便能欣赏人类精神世界里喜剧的弦外之音。
假如给我三天光明（6）
到午夜，刚刚从盲人痛苦中得到的临时解脱就要结束了，永久的黑暗将重新回到我的身边。很自然短暂的三天时间，不可能让我看完我要看的全部事物，只有当黑暗重新降临在我的身上时，我才会感到我没有看到的东西实在太多了。不过我的脑海中已经被那壮丽的回忆塞满了，很少有时间去遗憾。今后无论摸到什么物体都会给我带来它是什么形状的鲜明回忆。
如果有朝一日你也将变成一个盲人的话，你或许对我这如何度过三天可见时光的简短提纲提出异议并作出自己的安排。但是，我相信，如果你真的面临如此命运的话，你的眼睛将会向以前从不注意的事物睁开，为即将到来的漫漫黑夜储存记忆。你将会一反常态地去利用自己的眼睛，你所看到的东西都是那么的亲切，你的目光将捕捉和拥抱任何你视野所及的东西，最后你会真正看到一个美丽的新世界在你面前打开。
我作为一个盲人，给你们视力正常的人们一个暗示，给那些充分利用眼睛的人提一个忠告：好好使用你的眼睛就好像明天你就会突然变瞎。这样的办法也可使用于别的官能。好好地去聆听各种声响，鸟儿的鸣唱，管弦乐队铿锵的旋律，就好像你明天有可能变成聋子。去抚摸你想触及的那一切吧，就像明天你的触觉神经就要失灵一样；去嗅闻所有鲜花的芬芳，品尝每一口食物的滋味吧，如同明天你就再也不能闻也不能尝一样。充分发挥每一种官能的最大作用，为这个世界向你展示的多种多样的欢乐和美而高兴吧，这些美是通过大自然提供的各种接触的途径所获得的。不过在所有的官能中，我敢保证视力是最令人兴奋高兴的。
Three Days to See
Helen Keller
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to ；sometimes as short as twentyfour of courseof free men who have a choicenot condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited。
Such stories set us thinkingwondering what we should do under similar what experienceswhat associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings？ What happiness should we find in reviewing the pastwhat regrets？
Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die a vigorand a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to of course；who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eatdrinkand be merry”but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death。
In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortunebut almost always his sense of values is or have livedin the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do。 电子书 分享网站
假如给我三天光明（7）
Most of ushowevertake life for but usually we picture that day as far in the death is all but hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life。
The same lethargyI am afraidcharacterizes the use of all our faculties and only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in without concentration and with little of not being conscious of health until we are ill。
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。
Now and then I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see。
Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woodsand I asked her what she had observed…“Nothing in particular” she for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little。
How was it possibleI asked myselfto 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 or the roughshaggy bark of a 's ；velvety texture of a flowerand discover its remarkable convolutions；and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to if I am very fortunateI place my hand gently on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full the action of which streams through my finger tips。
At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these how much more beauty must be revealed by those who have eyes apparently see perhapsto appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have notbut it is a great pity that in the world of light the gift of sight is used only as a mere conveniences rather than as a means of adding fullness to life。 电子书 分享网站
假如给我三天光明（8）
If I were the president of a university I should establish a pulsory course in “How to Use Your Eyes”。The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before
Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyessayfor just three suppose youtooset your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had only three more days to ing darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you againhow would you spend those three precious intervening days？ What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon？
Inaturallyshould want most to see the things which have bee dear to me through my years of toowould want to let your eyes rest on the things that have bee dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you。
