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Reference Materials for Graduate Students, 2010 Three Days to See 看见东西的三天 （假如给我三天光明） Helen Keller 海伦·凯勒 1.All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and 1.我们大家都读过一些令人激动 specified time to live. Sometimes it was as 的故事，这些故事里的主人公仅仅活 long as a year; sometimes as short as 在有限并且特定的时间内，有时长达 twenty-four hours. But always we were 一年，有时短到２４小时。但我们总 interested in discovering just how the 是有兴趣发现，那命中注定要死的是 doomed man chose to spend his last days or 那些有选择自由的人，而不是那些活 his last hours. I speak, of course, of free 动范围被严格限定了的判了刑的犯 men who have a choice, not condemned 人。 criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. 2.这样的故事让我们思考，在相似的 情况下，我们该怎么办，作为终有一 2. Such stories set us thinking, 死的人，在那最终的几个小时内安排 wondering what we should do under similar 什么事件，什么经历，什么交往？在 circumstances. What events, what 回顾往事时，我们该找到什么快乐？ experiences, what associations should we 什么悔恨？ crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in 3.有时我想到，过好每一天是个非 reviewing the past, what regrets? 常好的习惯，似乎我们明天就会死去。 这种态度鲜明地强调了生命的价值。 3. Sometimes I have thought it would 我们应该以优雅、精力充沛、善知乐 be an excellent rule to live each day as if we 趣的方式过好每一天。而当岁月推移， should die tomorrow. Such an attitude 在经常瞻观未来之时日、未来之年月 would emphasize sharply the values of life. 中，这些又常常失去。当然，也有人 We should live each day with a gentleness, a 愿按伊壁鸠鲁的信条“吃、喝和欢乐” vigor, and a keenness of appreciation which 去生活。（译注：伊壁鸠鲁是古希腊 are oft