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Three Days to See ( Excerpt )

假如給我三天光明(節選)

作者：Helen Keller

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 24 hours.

我們都讀過震撼人心的故事，故事中的主人公只給再活一段很有限的時光，有時長達一年，有時卻短至一日。

But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours.

但我們總是想要知道，注定將要離世的人會選擇如何度過自己最后的時光。

I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.

當然，我說的是那些有選擇權利的自由人，而不是那些活動范圍受到嚴格限定的死囚。

Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.

這樣的故事讓我們思考，在類似的處境下，我們該做些什么呢?

What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings?

作為終有一死的人，在臨終的幾個小時內我們該做什么事、經歷些什么或做哪些聯想?

What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?

回憶往昔，什么使我們開心快樂?什么又使我們悔恨不已?

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.

我常常想，如果把生命中的每一天都當作最后一天來過，也不失為一種極好的選擇。

Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.

這種態度會使人格外重視生命的價值。

We should live each day with gentleness, 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.

我們每天都應該以優雅的姿態、充沛的精力、抱著感恩之心來生活。但當時間以無休止的日、月和年在我們面前流逝時，我們卻常常沒有了這種感覺。

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.

當然，也有人奉行“吃、喝、享受”的享樂主義信條，但絕大多數人還是會受到即將到來的死亡的懲罰。