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Life and death of a hero You were well advised to leave your pity at the door of Christopher Reeves airy, sun-filled home, hidden amid the rolling meadows and white wooden barns of upstate New York. What struck you first, as he was steered into the room, was his commanding height: his throne-like wheelchair lifted his broad-shouldered bulk off the ground; sitting down, you found yourself tilting your head upwards to look at him. The accidents power over him was diminishing, he said, as his ventilator sucked and hissed. He no longer snapped awake in the quiet hours, forced to confront, all over again, the fact that he had no sensation from the neck down. He didnt need to turn away when he was driven past the barn where he kept Buck, the thoroughbred horse from which he had been thrown in 1995, breaking his neck. But learning to live with his paralysis wasnt the same as resigning himself to it. Ive still never had a dream that Im disabled, he said. Never. He had vowed, controversially, to walk again by the age of 50. At the time, that deadline was three weeks away. Walking by 50 had only ever been a hope, not a prediction, Reeve insisted. But what made the news of his death so acutely disorienting was the fact that, on some level, so many of us thought that, eventually - albeit a few years behind schedule - he might actually do it. Of course, he had always stressed that ordinary disabled people were the real superheroes in response to the inevitable movie-themed questions. But for the rest of us, the personal narrative was too seductive to resist: Superman, brought down to earth, ultimately triumphs again through sheer force of will. 获奖译文 英译中 一个英雄的生与死 作者：ceciliafei 你最好将怜悯留在克里斯托弗·里夫的既通风又洒满阳光的家门口。里夫的家位于纽约州的北部地区，掩映在绵延起伏的草坪和白色的木制牲口棚中间。当别人推着他进屋时，你的第一印象是他居高临下的高度：御座一般的轮椅将他宽阔的身躯离地面高高抬起；你坐下时，会发现自己得仰望他。 他说，事故对他的影响正在减小，而此时他带着的呼吸器正发出扑哧扑哧的嘶嘶声。他再也不会在夜阑人静时突然醒来，被迫重新面对他从颈部以下失去知觉的事实。当他坐车经过饲养巴克的牲口棚时，再也不需要转过头去。巴克是一匹纯种马，1995年他正是从巴克马背上坠下，摔断了颈部。但是，学着瘫痪了继续生活，并不等于向疾病屈服。他说：“我从没有梦见