我的生活海伦凯勒摘抄 海伦·凯勒自传《我的生活》第26期

海伦·凯勒自传《我的生活》第26期  

On the third day after the beginning of the storm the snow ceased. The sun broke through the clouds and shone upon a vast
undulating white plain. High mounds
pyramids heaped in fantastic shapes
and imperable drifts lay scattered in every direction.
Narrow paths were shoveled through the drifts. I put on my cloak and hood and went out. The air stung my cheeks like fire. Half walking in the paths
half working our way through the lesser drifts
we succeeded in reaching a pine grove just outside a broad pasture. The trees stood motionless and white like figures in a marble frieze. There was no odour of pine-needles. The rays of the sun fell upon the trees
so that the igs sparkled like diamonds and dropped in showers when we touched them. So dazzling was the light
it perated even the darkness that veils my eyes.
As the days wore on
the drifts gradually shrunk
but before they were wholly gone another storm came
so that I scarcely felt the earth under my feet once all winter. At intervals the trees lost their icy covering
and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun.
随着时间的推移，积雪也渐渐融化了。在另一次风暴尚未来临之前，我几乎感觉不到脚下正踩着严冬的土地。在这短暂的宁静时刻，树木丢弃了披在身上的冰衣，芦苇和草丛露出了身形，只有阳光下的冰湖展示着冬日的美景。
Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water's edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan
a boy would give us a shove
and off we went! Plunging through drifts
leaping hollows
swooping down upon the lake
we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhilarating madness! For one wild
glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth
and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine!