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 tech him the joys of sound.
我常常想，如果每個人在他成年的早期有一段時間致瞎致聾，那會是一種幸事，黑暗會使他更珍惜視力，寂靜會教導他享受聲音。
Now and them I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently I was visited by a very good friends 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 reposes, for long ago I became convinced
that the seeing see little.四六級論壇
我不時地詢問過我的能看見東西的朋友們，以了解他們看到什么。近，我的一個很好的朋友來看我，她剛從一片森林里散步許久回來，我問她看到了什么，她答道：“沒什么特別的?！比绻也皇橇晳T了聽到這種回答，我都可能不相信，因為很久以來我已確信這個情況：能看得見的人卻看不到什么。
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 the 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 on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the page ant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.
我獨自一人，在林子里散步一小時之久而沒有看到任何值得注意的東西，那怎么可能呢？我自己，一個不能看見東西的人，僅僅通過觸覺，都發(fā)現(xiàn)許許多多令我有興趣的東西。我感觸到一片樹葉的完美的對稱性。我用手喜愛地撫摸過一株白樺那光潮的樹皮，或一棵松樹的粗糙樹皮。春天，我摸著樹干的枝條滿懷希望地搜索著嫩芽，那是嚴冬的沉睡后，大自然蘇醒的第一個跡象。我撫摸過花朵那令人愉快的天鵝絨般的質地，感覺到它那奇妙的卷繞，一些大自然奇跡向我展現(xiàn)了。有時，如果我很幸運，我把手輕輕地放在一棵小樹上，還能感受到一只高聲歌唱的小鳥的愉快顫抖，我十分快樂地讓小溪澗的涼水穿過我張開的手指流淌過去。對我來說，一片茂密的地毯式的松針葉或松軟而富彈性的草地比豪華的波斯地毯更受歡迎。對我來說四季的壯觀而華麗的展示是一部令人激動的、無窮盡的戲劇。這部戲劇的表演，通過我的手指尖端涌淌出來。
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 which fills 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 the gift of sight is used only as a mere conveniences rather than as a means of adding fullness
to life.
有時，由于渴望能看到這一切東西，我的內心在哭泣。如果說僅憑我的觸覺我就能感受到這么多的愉快，那么憑視覺該有多少美麗的東西顯露出來。然而，那些能看見的人明顯地看得很少，充滿世間的色彩和動作的景象被當成理所當然，或許，這是人性共有的特點；對我們具有的不怎么欣賞，而對我們不具有的卻渴望得到。然而，這是一個極大的遺憾，在光明的世界里，視力的天賦僅僅作為一種方便之用，而沒有作為增添生活美滿的手段。
If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory 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 them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
如果我是一所大學的校長，我就要開設一門強制的必修課“如何應用你的眼睛”。這門課的教授應該試圖給他的學生顯示怎樣能以看見那些在他們面前一現(xiàn)而過的東西來增添他們生活的樂趣，這位教授應該試圖喚醒他們沉睡和懶散的天賦。
Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes, say, for just three days. And while I am imagining, suppose you, too, set your mind to work on the problem of how you would 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?
或許，如果讓我來應用我的眼睛，比方說，僅僅用３天吧，我能以我想象的喜歡看見的東西來很好地說清楚這個問題。而且，當我想象的時候，設想你也在思考這個問題。如果你也只有３天多點的時間看東西，你該如何應用你自己的眼睛。如果面對即將到來的第三個夜晚的黑暗，你又知道，太陽對你來說，永不再升起了，那么你該怎樣度過這插進來的寶貴的３天呢？你想要注視的東西是什么呢？
I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest on the things that have
become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.
當然，我會想看到我多年的黑暗中對我變得珍貴的事情，你也會想讓你們的目光停留在那些對你已經(jīng)變得珍貴的事情上。這樣，你就能隨著你進入那逼近在你面前的長夜而永遠記住它們。四六級論壇
If, by some miracle, I were granted three seeing days, to be followed by a relapse into darkness, I should divide the period into three parts.
如果由某種奇跡，我獲得了能看見東西的３天，隨后又沉陷于一片黑暗之中，我該將這段時間分為３個部分。
appreciative of sight; silence would tech him the joys of sound.
我常常想，如果每個人在他成年的早期有一段時間致瞎致聾，那會是一種幸事，黑暗會使他更珍惜視力，寂靜會教導他享受聲音。
Now and them I have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently I was visited by a very good friends 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 reposes, for long ago I became convinced
that the seeing see little.四六級論壇
我不時地詢問過我的能看見東西的朋友們，以了解他們看到什么。近，我的一個很好的朋友來看我，她剛從一片森林里散步許久回來，我問她看到了什么，她答道：“沒什么特別的?！比绻也皇橇晳T了聽到這種回答，我都可能不相信，因為很久以來我已確信這個情況：能看得見的人卻看不到什么。
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 the 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 on a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have the cool waters of a brook rush thought my open finger. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the page ant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips.
我獨自一人，在林子里散步一小時之久而沒有看到任何值得注意的東西，那怎么可能呢？我自己，一個不能看見東西的人，僅僅通過觸覺，都發(fā)現(xiàn)許許多多令我有興趣的東西。我感觸到一片樹葉的完美的對稱性。我用手喜愛地撫摸過一株白樺那光潮的樹皮，或一棵松樹的粗糙樹皮。春天，我摸著樹干的枝條滿懷希望地搜索著嫩芽，那是嚴冬的沉睡后，大自然蘇醒的第一個跡象。我撫摸過花朵那令人愉快的天鵝絨般的質地，感覺到它那奇妙的卷繞，一些大自然奇跡向我展現(xiàn)了。有時，如果我很幸運，我把手輕輕地放在一棵小樹上，還能感受到一只高聲歌唱的小鳥的愉快顫抖，我十分快樂地讓小溪澗的涼水穿過我張開的手指流淌過去。對我來說，一片茂密的地毯式的松針葉或松軟而富彈性的草地比豪華的波斯地毯更受歡迎。對我來說四季的壯觀而華麗的展示是一部令人激動的、無窮盡的戲劇。這部戲劇的表演，通過我的手指尖端涌淌出來。
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 which fills 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 the gift of sight is used only as a mere conveniences rather than as a means of adding fullness
to life.
有時，由于渴望能看到這一切東西，我的內心在哭泣。如果說僅憑我的觸覺我就能感受到這么多的愉快，那么憑視覺該有多少美麗的東西顯露出來。然而，那些能看見的人明顯地看得很少，充滿世間的色彩和動作的景象被當成理所當然，或許，這是人性共有的特點；對我們具有的不怎么欣賞，而對我們不具有的卻渴望得到。然而，這是一個極大的遺憾，在光明的世界里，視力的天賦僅僅作為一種方便之用，而沒有作為增添生活美滿的手段。
If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory 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 them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
如果我是一所大學的校長，我就要開設一門強制的必修課“如何應用你的眼睛”。這門課的教授應該試圖給他的學生顯示怎樣能以看見那些在他們面前一現(xiàn)而過的東西來增添他們生活的樂趣，這位教授應該試圖喚醒他們沉睡和懶散的天賦。
Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I were given the use of my eyes, say, for just three days. And while I am imagining, suppose you, too, set your mind to work on the problem of how you would 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?
或許，如果讓我來應用我的眼睛，比方說，僅僅用３天吧，我能以我想象的喜歡看見的東西來很好地說清楚這個問題。而且，當我想象的時候，設想你也在思考這個問題。如果你也只有３天多點的時間看東西，你該如何應用你自己的眼睛。如果面對即將到來的第三個夜晚的黑暗，你又知道，太陽對你來說，永不再升起了，那么你該怎樣度過這插進來的寶貴的３天呢？你想要注視的東西是什么呢？
I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest on the things that have
become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you.
當然，我會想看到我多年的黑暗中對我變得珍貴的事情，你也會想讓你們的目光停留在那些對你已經(jīng)變得珍貴的事情上。這樣，你就能隨著你進入那逼近在你面前的長夜而永遠記住它們。四六級論壇
If, by some miracle, I were granted three seeing days, to be followed by a relapse into darkness, I should divide the period into three parts.
如果由某種奇跡，我獲得了能看見東西的３天，隨后又沉陷于一片黑暗之中，我該將這段時間分為３個部分。