StillAlice英语课英文介绍精选.pptxVIP

仍然爱丽丝 STILL ALICE;In this world there is a kind of panful progress, longing for what we left behind and dreaming ahed. 这个世界有种痛苦的进步，乞求我们留下点东西， 还依然梦想着前行。;爱丽丝是一位事业有成、家庭幸福的成功女性。她是哈佛大学认知心理学教授、 知名的语言学家，丈夫也是哈佛教授，三个孩子都已长大并各有自己的追求。 五十岁那年，爱丽丝发现自己的记忆力越来越差。 有一天，她还突然在自己最熟悉的地方迷了路。医生的诊断彻底改变了她的生命， 也改变了她与家人和世界的关系。她患的是阿尔兹海默病。;“她的记忆跟不上遗忘的脚步。她逐渐失去了自己的思想，也失去了与外界的连结。 她渐渐记不起女儿的名字，想不起丈夫的面孔。她的世界在不断崩塌。她的人生俨然 变成了一个慢性失去的过程。但是，在家人的陪伴下，她勇敢地为每一天而活， 为当下而活。”;Good morning, it’s an honor to be here. The poet Elizabeth Bishop once wrote: “The art of losing isn’t hard to master. So many things seems filled with the intent to be?lost,and their lost is no disaster.” I am not a poet, I’m a person living with early on-set Alzheimer’s. And as that person, I find myself learning the art of losing every day. Losing my bearings, losing objects, losing sleep, but mostly, losing memories.Oops…I think I’ll try and forget that just happened. 诗人Elizabeth Bishop曾经写道： “ ‘失去’的 艺术并不难掌握很多事情看上去都终将会失去， 这种‘失去’并不意味着灾难。” 我不是个诗人，我只是以一个患有早期阿兹海 默症的普通人。正因为如此，我发现我每一天 都在学习‘失去’的艺术失去了我的理智和 方向，失去物件，失去睡眠，最重要的是， 失去记忆。呜……嗯，我会试着忘掉刚刚发生的事情。;All my life, I have accumulated memories, they have become in a way my most precious possessions.The night I met my husband, the first time I held my textbook in my hands,having children, making friends, travelling the world. Everything Ive accumulated in life, everything Ive worked so hard for.Now all that is being ripped away. As you can imagine, or as you know,this is hell. But it gets worse.Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change other’s perception of us, and our perception of ourselves We become ridiculous, incapable, comic’ ,this is not who we are, this is our disease.And like any disease, it has a cause, it has a progression, and it could have a cure. ;My greatest wish is that my children, our children, the next generation do not have to face what I am facing.But for the time being, I’m still alive. I hav