假如给我三天光明(中英文版)_精品.doc

假如给我三天光明（中英文修订版）If I were granted three seeing days???? Helen Keller ???? ???? ???? ???? 　　　　All of us have read thrilling（exciting 令人激动的） stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified(specific 特定的) 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(命中注定要死的) man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned(sentence 判刑) criminals(犯人) whose sphere(area范围) of activities is strictly delimited(to fix the limits of限定).　　　???? ???? Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances(conditions;situation情况;环境). What events, what experiences, what associations（交往） should we crowd into(把什么挤进) those last hours as mortal（终有一死的） beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing（looking back upon回顾） the past, what regrets? 　　　　???? ???? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule(habit) to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize(stress 强调) sharply(鲜明地) the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness(热心;渴望) of appreciation（欣赏;评定） which are often lost when time stretches（延伸） before us in the constant（连续的） panorama（综观） 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,“ but most people would be chastened（punished 惩戒 ） by the certainty of impending（about to happen即将发生的） death. 　　　　???? ???? In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune(luck一桩幸事), but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative(有欣赏力的) of the meaning of life and its permanent（lasting 永恒的） spiritual(精神的) values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow(阴影) of death bring a mellow(甜熟的) sweetness to everything they do.