家人还对我讲了我一岁时学走路的情景。那天,母亲把我从澡盆里抱出来,把我放在她的膝盖上。当时,林木婆娑,光影摇曳,我被眼前的景象吸引住了,于是,我从母亲的腿上挣脱出来,试图追逐地上的阴影。这种冲动付出了代价,我跌倒在地,哭叫着扑进母亲的怀里。
These happy days did not last long. One brief spring, musical with the song of robin and mocking-bird, one summer rich in fruit and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and left their gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child. Then, in the dreary month of February, came the illness which closed my eyes and ears and plunged me into the unconsciousness of a new-born baby. They called it acute congestion of the stomach and brain. The doctor thought I could not live. Early one morning, however, the fever left me as suddenly and mysteriously as it had come. There was great rejoicing in the family that morning, but no one, not even the doctor, knew that I should never see or hear again.
快乐的日子并没有持续多久。一个短暂的春天,知更鸟和嘲鸫的啁啾余音缭绕;一个花果繁盛的夏天;一个金黄色的秋天时光倏忽即逝,在一个如饥似渴、欣喜异常的幼儿脚下,季节留下了自己最后的礼物。随后,在一个阴沉萧索的二月,疾病封闭了我的眼睛和耳朵,重新将我抛进一个新生婴儿般的无意识状态。家人们管这种病叫做胃和脑的急性阻塞症。医生认为我活不了了,然而造化弄人,就在某天早晨,我身上的烧突然退了,就像它到来时那样神秘莫测。那天早晨,家中充满了喜悦祥和的气氛,但是没有一个人,连同医生在内,全都不知道我再也看不见,再也听不见了。
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