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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 delimited.
Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?
Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and 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 come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry,” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
我们都读过这样一些动人的故事，故事里主人公将不久于人世。长则一年，短则24小时。但是我们总是很想知道这个即将离开人世的人是决定怎样度过他最后的日子的。当然，我所指的是有权作出选择的自由人，不是那些活动范围受到严格限制的死囚。
这一类故事会使我们思考在类似的处境下，我们自己该做些什么？在那临终前的几个小时里我们会产生哪些联想？会有多少欣慰和遗憾呢？
有时我想，把每天都当作生命的最后一天来度过也不失为一个很好的生命法则。这种人生态度使人非常重视人生的价值。每一天我们都应该以和善的态度、充沛的精力和热情的欣赏来度过，而这些恰恰是在来日方长时往往被我们忽视的东西。当然，有这样一些人奉行享乐主义的座右铭——吃喝玩乐，但是大多数人却不能摆脱死亡来临的恐惧。
Most of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future, when we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty task, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.
The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, without concentration, and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we 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 woods, and I asked her what she had observed. “Nothing in particular,” she replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
我们大多数人认为生命理所当然，我们明白总有一天我们会死去，但是我们常常把这一天看得非常遥远。当我们身体强壮时，死亡便成了难以相象的事情了。我们很少会考虑它，日子一天天过去，好像没有尽头。所以我们为琐事奔波，并没有意识到我们对待生活的态度是冷漠的。
我想我们在运用我们所有五官时恐怕也同样是冷漠的。只有聋子才珍惜听力，只有盲人才能认识到能见光明的幸运。对于那些成年致盲或失陪的人来说尤其如此。但是那些听力或视力从未遭受损失的人却很少充分利用这些幸运的能力，他们对所见所闻不关注、不欣赏。这与常说的不失去不懂得珍贵，不生病不知道健康可贵的道理是一样的。
我常想如果每一个人在他成年的早些时候，有几天成为了聋子或瞎子也不失为一件幸事。黑暗将使他更珍惜光明；沉寂将教他知道声音的乐趣。
有时我会试探我的非盲的朋友们，想知道他们看见了什么。最近我的一位非常要好的朋友来看我，她刚刚在树林里走了很长时间，我问她看见了什么。“没什么特别的，”她回答说。如不是我早已习惯了这样的回答，我也许不会轻易相信，因为很久以前我就相信了有眼人看不见什么。
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. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winter’s sleep I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently in a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have cool waters of a brook rush through my open fingers. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips. At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. The panorama of color and action fill the world is taken for granted. It is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light and the gift of sight is used only as mere convenience rather that as a means of adding fullness to life.
Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for three days!
我问自己在树林中走了一小时，怎么可能什么值得注意的东西都没有看到呢？而我一个盲人仅仅通过触摸就发现了数以百计的有趣的东西。我感到树叶的对称美，用手摸着白桦树光滑的树皮或是松树那粗糙的厚厚的树皮。春天里我满怀着希望触摸着树枝寻找新芽，那是大自然冬眼后醒来的第一个征象。我感到了花朵的可爱和茸茸的感觉，发现它层层叠叠地绽开着，大自然的神奇展现在我的面前。当我把手轻轻地放在一棵小树上，如果幸运的话，偶尔会感到歌唱的小鸟欢快的颤动。我会愉快地让清凉的溪水从手之间流过。对我来说，满地厚厚的松针和松软的草坪比奢华的波斯地毯更惹人喜爱。对我来说四季变换的景色如同一场动人心魄的不会完结的戏剧，剧中的人物动作从我的指尖流过。我的心不时在呐喊，带着对光明的渴望。既然仅仅通过触摸就能使我获得如此多的喜悦，那么光明定会展示更多美好的事物啊。可惜的是那些有眼睛的人分明看到很少，整个世界缤纷的色彩和万物的活动都被认为是理所当然。也许不珍惜已经拥有的，想得到还没有得到的是人的特点，但是在光明的世界里只把视觉用做一种方便的工具，而不是丰富生活的工具，这是令人多么遗憾的事情啊。
噢，假如我拥有三天光明，我将会看见多少事物啊
我有名人名言，特地过来给你。
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
J. Burroughs. Averican naturalist
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
美国博物学家巴勒斯. J.
All of us bear witness to the dissolution of our piece of creation. Only the novelist can restore to us, in the miracle of ink that pours itself like blood onto paper, the lineaments of our lost worlds, alive.
Norma Rosen, American novelist
我们都眼见自己创造物的变化消亡，唯有小说家能凭借墨水拥有像血一样息行流注纸上的奇迹，为我们恢复失去的世界，使它的面貌活灵活现。
美国小说家罗森. N.
All that you do, do with your might; things done by halves are never done right.
R. H. Stoddard, American poet
做一切事都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。美国诗人斯大林拖达德. R. H .
Between the annihilating fierceness of personal ambition and those who clutter its path, there is only one possible mediator, and that is love.
Norma Rosen, American novelist
能使凶险的个人野心湮灭和塞满实现野心的人流之间，只有一样是可能的调节剂，那就是“爱”。美国小说家罗森. N.
Creativity is no more teachable than heritable, No more than the most detail-perfect doll can transubstatiate into a living, breathing baby.
Norma Rosen, American novelist
创造能力既不是遗传的，也不是教得会的。正如再怎样完美制作的洋娃娃，也不能够变成一个会呼吸的活的婴儿。美国小说家罗森. N.
Dare and the world always yields. lf it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
W. M . Thackeray. British novelist
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服的。英国小说家萨克雷. W. M.
Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
La Rocheforcauld, French writer
事情很少有根本做不成的；其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
法国作家罗切福考尔德，L.
Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
Mendeleyev, Russian chemist
天才只意味着终身不懈地努力。
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ( J. W. Gardner )对聪明人来说，每一天的时间都是要精打细算的。（加德纳） Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. (Goethe )天才形成于平静中，性格来自于生活的激流。（歌德） Wherever valour true is found, true modesty willthere abound. ( W. S. Gilbert )真正的勇敢，都包含谦虚。（吉尔伯特） We can’t all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (W. Roger )我们不可能都成为英雄。总得有人在英雄走过的时候坐在路边鼓掌。（罗杰） Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides)上帝要谁灭亡，必先让他疯狂。（欧里比德斯）
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. ( A. Lowell )
生活是一张白纸，每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。（洛威尔）
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. (A. Hamilton)
地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。（哈密尔顿）
Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. (Chekhov)
人的一切—面貌、衣着、心灵和思想，都应该是美好的。（契诃夫）
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.( T. Fuller )
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成的。（富勒）
Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less. (S. Bernhardt)要这样生活，仿佛你寿命永恒；要这样工作，仿佛你精力无穷。（波恩哈特） Other man live to eat, while I eat to live. (Socrates )
别人为食而生存，我为生存而食。（苏格拉底）
Life is the art of drawing sufficient
conclusions from insufficient premises. ( S. Butler )
生活是一种艺术，要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。（巴特勒） Life is not all beer and skittles. ( T. Hughes )
人生并非只是吃喝玩乐。（休斯）
For man is man and master of his fate. ( A. Tennyson )
人就是人，是自己命运的主人。（丁尼生）
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. |( V. Hugo )
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。（雨果）
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. ( R. Peters )
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精力会白白浪费。（彼得斯）
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.( Erasmus )
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活或自由。（伊拉斯漠）
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. (George Eliot )
没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。（艾略特）
Don’t believe that winning is really everything. It’s more important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, what do you win? ( Lane Kirkland )
不要认为取胜就是一切，更重要的是要有信念。倘若你没有信念，那胜利又有什么意义呢？（柯克兰）
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)
生活中没有什么可怕的东西，只有需要理解的东西。（居里夫人）
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison's major inventions were designed and built in the last years of the eighteen hundreds. However, most of them had their greatest effect in the twentieth century. His inventions made possible the progress of technology.
It is extremely difficult to find anyone living today who has not been affected in some way by Thomas Edison. Most people on Earth have seen some kind of motion picture or heard some kind of sound recording. And almost everyone has at least seen an electric light.
These are only three of the many devices Thomas Edison invented or helped to improve. People living in this century have had easier and more enjoyable lives because of his inventions.
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February eleventh, eighteen forty-seven in the small town of Milan, Ohio. He was the youngest of seven children.
Thomas Edison was self-taught. He went to school for only three months. His teacher thought he could not learn because he had a mental problem. But young Tom Edison could learn. He learned from books and he experimented.
At the age of ten, he built his own chemical laboratory. He experimented with chemicals and electricity. He built a telegraph machine and quickly learned to send and receive telegraph messages. At the time, sending electric signals over wires was the fastest method of sending information long distances. At the age of sixteen, he went to work as a telegraph operator.
He later worked in many different places. He continued to experiment with electricity. When he was twenty-one, he sent the United States government the documents needed to request the legal protection for his first invention. The government gave him his first patent on an electric device he called an Electrographic Vote Recorder. It used electricity to count votes in an election.
In the summer months of eighteen sixty-nine, the Western Union Telegraph Company asked Thomas Edison to improve a device that was used to send financial information. It was called a stock printer. Mister Edison very quickly made great improvements in the device. The company paid him forty thousand dollars for his effort. That was a lot of money for the time.
This large amount of money permitted Mister Edison to start his own company. He announced that the company would improve existing telegraph devices and work on new inventions.
Mister Edison told friends that his new company would invent a minor device every ten days and produce what he called a "big trick" about every six months. He also proposed that his company would make inventions to order. He said that if someone needed a device to do some kind of work, just ask and it would be invented.
Within a few weeks Thomas Edison and his employees were working on more than forty different projects. They were either new inventions or would lead to improvements in other devices. Very quickly he was asking the United States government for patents to protect more than one hundred devices or inventions each year. He was an extremely busy man. But then Thomas Edison was always very busy.
He almost never slept more than four or five hours a night. He usually worked eighteen hours each day because he enjoyed what he was doing. He believed no one really needed much sleep. He once said that anyone could learn to go without sleep.
Thomas Edison did not enjoy taking to reporters. He thought it was a waste of time. However, he did talk to a reporter in nineteen seventeen. He was seventy years old at the time and still working on new devices and inventions.
The reporter asked Mister Edison which of his many inventions he enjoyed the most. He answered quickly, the phonograph. He said the phonograph was really the most interesting. He also said it took longer to develop a machine to reproduce sound than any other of his inventions.
Thomas Edison told the reporter that he had listened to many thousands of recordings. He especially liked music by Brahms, Verdi and Beethoven. He also liked popular music.
Many of the recordings that Thomas Edison listened to in nineteen seventeen can still be enjoyed today. His invention makes it possible for people around the world to enjoy the same recorded sound.
The reporter also asked Thomas Edison what was the hardest invention to develop. He answered quickly again -- the electric light. He said that it was the most difficult and the most important.
Before the electric light was invented, light was provided in most homes and buildings by oil or natural gas. Both caused many fires each year. Neither one produced much light.
Mister Edison had seen a huge and powerful electric light. He believed that a smaller electric light would be extremely useful.He and his employees began work on the electric light.
An electric light passes electricity through material called a filament or wire. The electricity makes the filament burn and produce light. Thomas Edison and his employees worked for many months to find the right material to act as the filament.
Time after time a new filament would produce light for a few moments and then burn up. At last Mister Edison found that a carbon fiber produced light and lasted a long time without burning up. The electric light worked.
At first, people thought the electric light was extremely interesting but had no value. Homes and businesses did not have electricity. There was no need for it.
Mister Edison started a company that provided electricity for electric lights for a small price each month. The small company grew slowly at first. Then it expanded rapidly. His company was the beginning of the electric power industry.
Thomas Edison also was responsible for the very beginnings of the movie industry. While he did not invent the idea of the motion picture, he greatly improved the process. He also invented the modern motion picture film.
When motion pictures first were shown in the late eighteen hundreds, people came to see movies of almost anything -- a ship, people walking on the street, new automobiles. But in time, these moving pictures were no longer interesting.
In nineteen-oh-three, an employee of Thomas Edison's motion picture company produced a movie with a story. It was called "The Great Train Robbery." It told a simple story of a group of western criminals who steal money from a train. Later they are killed by a group of police in a gun fight. The movie was extremely popular. "The Great Train Robbery" started the huge motion picture industry.
Thomas Alva Edison is remembered most for the electric light, his phonograph and his work with motion pictures. However, he also invented several devices that greatly improved the telephone. He improved several kinds of machines called generators that produced electricity. He improved batteries that hold electricity. He worked on many different kinds of electric motors including those for electric trains.
Mister Edison also is remembered for making changes in the invention process. He moved from the Nineteenth Century method of an individual doing the inventing to the Twentieth Century method using a team of researchers.
In nineteen thirteen, a popular magazine at the time called Thomas Edison the most useful man in America. In nineteen twenty-eight, he received a special medal of honor from the Congress of the United States.
Thomas Edison died on January sixth, nineteen thirty-one. In the months before his death he was still working very hard. He had asked the government for legal protection for his last invention. It was patent number one thousand ninety-three
我不知道你听过林肯的 我有一个梦想 没有
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我建议你把这篇文章背下来
我记得我上大二时
第一次背这篇文章
当时我大声朗读完之后 眼泪都快流出来了
因为实在是太震撼了 太具有感染力了
林肯虽然后来被刺杀了，但是他这篇 我有一个梦想
被无数人作为自己的励志名言
希望对你有帮助
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很震撼的！！
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Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."?
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
Success
“Where there is a will, there is a way.”Thomas Edison said. The road to success is narrow, and many people will miss it. The road to success is also broad, and many people fail. This shows that the road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. What do you think is more important to your success, intelligence or hard work? Hard work, without a doubt.
I remembered I used to fail on my English. When I was in Middle school, I had gone to face the final graduation exam, but my results were not satisfactory. In particular, my English result was worse, especially in English writing. Though I knew English is a very important subject, I though now it had become a little difficult for me. My poor writing skills had caused me to get low marks on my English exams. This had made me dislike English and I was afraid to take any more exams. I really went to change my situation and enjoyed learning English again. I wondered why so many students liked English and could get good results in English exams. I did want to be one of the best students and go to my ideal high School after graduation. This was my dream, but my English was not good enough. I almost decided to give up English，I though there was no way to improve my result. But my English teacher gave me her hands. She told me that life is not always easy and comfortable. There are more difficulties than eases in the real life. It is likely that we have to face some failures ahead. Therefore， those who learn how to deal and endure failures will taste their success eventually. Then, I red many English newspapers and magazines every week ,did many exercises on English writing and collected Writing material. After several months’ efforts, my English level had greatly improved. I was interested in English study and not afraid to take any exam. And I use this method of English study to other courses .Finally, I had made outstanding achievements in the final graduation exam, and went to my ideal high school.
For me, success means fulfilling one's dreams. Whatever your dreams are, you have a goal there and then focus all your attention on it. Dreams bring you hope and happiness. In the process of struggling for it, you cry, sweat, complain or even curse, but the joy of harvesting makes you forget all the pains and troubles you have gone through. So an old proverb says that the sweetest fruit is one that has undergone the bitterest ordeal.
There are several keys to success. First, your goal must be practical and practicable. If you set your goal too high, chances are that you will never attain it. Next, you have to make a plan of doing it. You can take some steps to realize it. Since the process is quite tough, you need to be diligent, patient and persevering. Even if you meet with some difficulties or frustrations, just take them in your stride. You can always tell yourself that there is nothing insurmountable. With this will and determination, success is sure to wait for you at the end of the tunnel!
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