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Three Days to See 看见东西的三天 Helen Keller 海伦·凯勒 All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to 我们大家都读过一些令人激动的故事，这些 live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; 故事里的主人公仅仅活在有限并且特定的时间 sometimes as short as twenty-four hours. But 内，有时长达一年，有时短到２４小时。但我们 always we were interested in discovering just 总是有兴趣发现，那命中注定要死的是那些有选 how the doomed man chose to spend his last 择自由的人，而不是那些活动范围被严格限定了 days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free 的判了刑的犯人。 men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. 这样的故事让我们思考，在相似的情况下， 我们该怎么办，作为终有一死的人，在那最终的 Such stories set us thinking, wondering what 几个小时内安排什么事件，什么经历，什么交往？ we should do under similar circumstances. 在回顾往事时，我们该找到什么快乐？什么悔 What events, what experiences, what 恨？ associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness 有时我想到，过好每一天是个非常好的习惯， should we find in reviewing the past, what 似乎我们明天就会死去。这种态度鲜明地强调了 regrets? 生命的价值。我们应该以优雅、精力充沛、善知 乐趣的方式过好每一天。而当岁月推移，在经常 Sometimes I have thought it would be an 瞻观未来之时日、未来之年月中，这些又常常失 excellent rule to live each day as if we should 去。当然，也有人愿按伊壁鸠鲁的信条“吃、喝 die tomorrow. Such an attitude would 和欢乐”去生活。（译注：伊壁鸠鲁是古希腊哲 emphasize sharply the values of life. We should 学家，他认为生活的主题目的是享乐，而最高的 live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a 享受唯通过合理的生活，如自我控制才能得到。 keenness of appreciation which are often lost 因为生活享受的目的被过分强调，而达此目的之 when time stretches before us in the constant 手段被忽视，所以伊壁鸠鲁的信徒现今变为追求 panorama of more days and months and years 享乐的人。他们的信条是：“让我们吃喝，因为 to come. There are those, of course, who would 明天我们就死亡”），但绝大多数人还是被即将 adopt the Epicurean motto of Ea