我的生活海伦凯勒摘抄 海伦·凯勒自传《我的生活》第43期

海伦·凯勒自传《我的生活》第43期  

Each day Miss Sullivan went to the classes with me and spelled into my hand with infinite patience all that the teachers said. In study hours she had to look up new words for me and read and reread notes and books I did not have in raised print. The tedium of that work is hard to conceive. Frau Gre
my German teacher
and Mr. Gilman
the principal
were the only teachers in the school who learned the finger alphabet to give me instruction. No one realized more fully than dear Frau Gre how slow and inadequate her spelling was. Nevertheless
in the goodness of her heart she laboriously spelled out her instructions to me in special lessons ice a week
to give Miss Sullivan a little rest. But
though everybody was kind and ready to help us
there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.
That year I finished arithmetic
reviewed my Latin grammar
and read three chapters of Caesar's "Gallic War." In German I read
partly with my fingers and partly with Miss Sullivan's assistance
Schiller's "Lied von der Glocke" and "Taucher
" Heine's "Harzreise
" Freytag's "Aus dem Staat Friedrichs des Grossen
" Riehl's "Fluch Der Schheit
" Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm
" and Goethe's "Aus meinem Leben." I took the greatest delight in these German books
especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics
the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life. I was sorry to finish "Die Harzreise
" so full of happy witticisms and charming descriptions of vine-clad hills
streams that sing and ripple in the sunshine
and wild regions
sacred to tradition and legend
the gray sisters of a long-vanished
imaginative age--descriptions such as can be given only by those to whom nature is "a feeling
a love and an appetite."
Mr. Gilman instructed me part of the year in English literature. We read together
"As You Like It
" Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America
" and Macaulay's "Life of Samuel Johnson." Mr. Gilman's broad views of history and literature and his clever explanations made my work easier and pleasanter than it could have been had I only read notes mechanically with the necessarily brief explanations given in the classes.
那年，吉尔曼先生曾教过我一段时间的英语文学。我们一起阅读《皆大欢喜》，伯克的《与美国和解的演讲》，还有麦考雷的《塞缪尔·约翰逊的一生》。吉尔曼先生广博的历史学识和文学素养，加之其巧妙的讲解方式，使我切实体会到了学习的轻松与快乐，这完全不同于我在课堂上被灌输的那些教条性知识。
Burke's speech was more instructive than any other book on a political subject that I had ever read. My mind stirred with the stirring times
and the characters round which the life of o contending nations centred seemed to move right before me. I wondered more and more
while Burke's masterly speech rolled on in mighty surges of eloquence
how it was that King Gee and his ministers could have turned a deaf ear to his warning prophecy of our victory and their humiliation. Then I entered into the melancholy details of the relation in which the great statesman stood to his party and to the representatives of the people. I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.