我的生活海伦凯勒摘抄 海伦·凯勒自传《我的生活》第44期

海伦·凯勒自传《我的生活》第44期  

In a different way Macaulay's "Life of Samuel Johnson" was interesting. My heart went out to the lonely man who ate the bread of affliction in Grub Street
and yet
in the midst of toil and cruel suffering of body and soul
always had a kind word
and lent a helping hand to the poor and despised. I rejoiced over all his successes
I shut my eyes to his faults
and wondered
not that he had them
but that they had not crushed or dwarfed his soul. But in spite of Macaulay's brilliancy and his admirable faculty of making the monplace seem fresh and picturesque
his positiveness wearied me at times
and his frequent sacrifices of truth to effect kept me in a questioning attitude very unlike the attitude of reverence in which I had listened to the Demosthenes of Great Britain.
At the Cambridge school
for the first time in my life
I enjoyed the panionship of seeing and hearing girls of my own age. I lived with several others in one of the pleasant houses connected with the school
the house where Mr. Howells used to live
and we all had the advantage of home life. I joined them in many of their games
even blind man's buff and frolics in the snow; I took long walks with them; we discussed our studies and read aloud the things that interested us. Some of the girls learned to speak to me
so that Miss Sullivan did not have to repeat their conversation.
At Christmas
my mother and little sister spent the holidays with me
and Mr. Gilman kindly offered to let Mildred study in his school. So Mildred stayed with me in Cambridge
and for six happy months we were hardly ever apart. It makes me most happy to remember the hours we spent helping each other in study and sharing our recreation together.
那一年，我的母亲和小妹妹和我一同度过了圣诞节。其间，热心的吉尔曼先生还把米尔德莱德安排在他的学校读书。就这样，米尔德莱德和我一起待在了剑桥，差不多有六个月的时间，我们几乎形影不离。我们在一起分享快乐；我们俩互相帮助，一学就是好几个小时。那真是一段令人愉快的时光。
I took my preliminary examinations for Radcliffe from the 29th of June to the 3rd of July in 1897. The subjects I offered were Elementary and Advanced German
French
Latin
English
and Greek and Roman history
making nine hours in all. I passed in everything
and received "honours" in German and English.