Three Days To See 假如给我三天光明 英文版原著

　　《假如给我三天光明》
　　影响青少年一生的世界名著 
　　被誉为“世界文学史上无与伦比的杰作” 
　　  
　　**的文学经典读物     *好的语言学习读本

　　《假如给我三天光明》，由海伦?凯勒（Helen
Keller）所写的自传文学书籍，于1903年出版。主要讲述她从小到进入哈佛大学的拉德克利夫学院学习这段时期的个人成长故事，尤其是她在导师安妮?莎莉文（Anne
Sullivan）的帮助下如何克服身心障碍掌握到学习本领和与人交流能力的事迹。

　　海伦·凯勒（Helen Keller
，1880—1968),美国盲聋女作家，教育家，慈善家，社会活动家。她自强不息的顽强毅力，在安妮?莎莉文老师的帮助下，掌握了英、法、德等多国语言，是世界上个完成大学教育的盲聋人。主要著作有《假如给我三天光明》、《我的生活》、《我的老师》等。

　　All of　us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had
only a limited and specified 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 man chose to
spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free
men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of
activities is strictly delimited.
    Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we
should do under similar circumstances. What events, what
experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last
hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing
the past, what regrets?
     Sometimes I have thought it would be an
excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such
an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should
live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of
appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in
the constant panorama 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 by
the certainty of impending death.
    In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at
the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his
sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the
meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It ahs often
been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of
death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.