四六级写作，翻译深度拓展与背诵5

英语散文：Three Days to See (1)
假如拥有三天光明
海伦凯勒 Helen Keller
习惯于光明的人或许根本无法理解处于黑暗的人们心中的痛苦，所以他也不会珍惜光明;同样，每天有着丰富的机会去进行观察的人反而失去了用心生活的乐趣，无法从周围接触的事物中得到对生活最根本的享受。
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.
我们都读过这样一些动人的故事,故事里主人公将不久于人世.长则一年,短则24小时.但是我们总是很想知道这个即将离开人世的人是决定怎样度过他最后的日子的.当然,我所指的是有权作出选择的自由人,不是那些活动范围受到严格限制的死囚.
Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?
这一类故事会使我们思考在类似的处境下,我们自己该做些什么?在那临终前的几个小时里我们会产生哪些联想?回忆往事，会有多少欣慰和遗憾呢?
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,” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
有时我想,把每天都当作生命的最后一天来度过也不失为一个很好的生命法则.这种人生态度使人非常重视人生的价值.每一天我们都应该以和善的态度、充沛的精力和饱满的热情来度过,而这些恰恰是在来日方长时往往被我们忽视的东西.当然,有这样一些人奉行享乐主义的座右铭——吃喝玩乐,但是大多数人却不能摆脱死亡来临的恐惧.
Part One 生词好句
1. thrilling，exciting and enjoyable 惊险的；紧张的；扣人心弦的；令人兴奋不已的
a thrilling experience/finish 激动人心的经历╱结局
2. doomed adj. 注定的；命定的; v. 注定；宣判（doom 的过去分词）
doomed to do,注定要….
doomed man命中注定的人(离开人世的人) doomed strategy注定失败的策略
3. condemn 谴责，指责condemned, 宣判死刑,已被定罪的condemned criminals 死囚
4. mortal beings, 芸芸众生
5. crowd into, 涌入，挤入，这儿意译“产生”
6. constant, 连续发生的；不断的；重复的
6.panorama,全景,全景图
7. when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come
每天，每月，每年都会完整，不断重复在我们面前，意译：来日方长。
8. epicurean, ( formal ) devoted to pleasure and enjoying yourself 享乐的；吃喝玩乐的
9.chasten, often passive ( formal ) to make sb feel sorry for sth they have done 使内疚；使懊悔
10. impending, ( usually of an unpleasant event 通常指不愉快的事 )
that is going to happen very soon 即将发生的；迫在眉睫的

Part Two 句子种类分析（分析一部分）
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live（复合句）. 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（并列复合句）. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.（两个定语从句的复合句）
Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.（简单句） What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings?（简单句） What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets? （简单句）