英语名著读书笔记 Three Days to See

第一篇：Three Days to See读书报告

reading report two

Three Days to See

by helen keller

n keller, the woman and her works

helen keller, who was born on june 27, 1880, is a disabled is considered as one of the greatest people in was born in tuscumbia, a little town of northern suffered a high fever when she was only 19 lasted for a few Days, and made her lose her eyesight and a terrible thing we can not imagine!from then on, she started to live in a world without sunshine, without there are darkness and silence unately, she never gave up the help of a disabled teacher, annie sullivan, she learned a is well up in five kinds of are english, french, german, latin, and lly, she becomes very experiences encourage many people all over the world.

f introduction to Three Days to See

this book is about herself, and also, it is a representative of her book can be divided into seven first one is about her writes about the cause of her disabled, and the long way of curing one is about annie sullivan, the same as gives love to helen, teaches her to make friends with nature, and makes her life full of happiness and third one is about her traveling, which makes her forth one is about her first time to speak and her struggling in the storm of fifth is that she breaks through the adversity, and comes to the cambridge sixth one is her time of enjoying life and the power of the last chapter sums up the whole is about her if there are Three will treasure everyday and See the beautiful world.

i learned from the novel

it is really a big destroy for a 19-month girl to be it is sullivan, the angle, helps her out, and gives hope to e two people are positive to life.

they are not defeated by the disease and can courage us healthy people to live a better should not complain about how terrible our life is, and how difficult the things we face with use at least we can hear the voice, we can See the world, we can walk, and we can should learn to be a deaf and blind people, it is difficult to understand what others is saying and ivan teaches her words again and again, so she tries her best to recept and remember the patiently help of sullivan, helen get over the difficulties, and she can speak fluently and can ever speak five kinds of , nothing is n is the matter who you are, no matter you healthy or not, you can achieve your own succeed with hard ivan gives her love to helen, and then, helen puts it forward to the other unlucky brings them hope and is the pride of our human is our example to creates a miracle, and shows the dignity and grandness of all the disabled need to pay more attention to those dialed people, and make them we do is just as same as helen and need to make them know that everywhere is full of there is no drop shadow if you just face the sunshine.

第二篇：Three Days to See

Three Days to See

(excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）

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. but always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero 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.

such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. what events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?

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 gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panomp3a 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”. but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. in stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its pemp3anent spiritual values. it has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.

most of us, however, take life for granted. we know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. when we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. we seldom think of it. the Days stretch out in an endless vista. so we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

the same lethargy, i am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. but those who have never suffered impaimp3ent of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. it is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.

i have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few Days at some time during his early adult life. darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.

假如给我三天光明（节选）

我们都读过震撼人心的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光，有时长达一年，有时却短至一日。但我们总是想要知道，注定要离世人的会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。当然，我说的是那些有选择权利的自由人，而不是那些活动范围受到严格限定的死囚。 这样的故事让我们思考，在类似的处境下，我们该做些什么？作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想？回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐？什么又使我们悔恨不已？

有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月和年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这种子感觉。当然，也有人奉行“吃，喝，享受”的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。

在故事中，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的幸运而获救，但他的价值观通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。我们常常注意到，那些生活在或曾经生活在死亡阴影下的人无论做什么都会感到幸福。

然而，我们中的大多数人都把生命看成是理所当然的。我们知道有一天我们必将面对死亡，但总认为那一天还在遥远的将来。当我们身强体健之时，死亡简直不可想象，我们很少考虑到它。日子多得好像没有尽头。因此我们一味忙于琐事，几乎意识不到我们对待生活的冷漠态度。

我担心同样的冷漠也存在于我们对自己官能和意识的运用上。只有聋子才理解听力的重要，只有盲人才明白视觉的可贵，这尤其适用于那些成年后才失去视力或听力之苦的人很少充分利用这些宝贵的能力。他们的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受着周围的景物与声音，心不在焉，也无所感激。这正好我们只有在失去后才懂得珍惜一样，我们只有在生病后才意识到健康的可贵。 我经常想，如果每个人在年轻的时候都有几天失时失聪，也不失为一件幸事。黑暗将使他更加感激光明，寂静将告诉他声音的美妙。

第三篇：Three Days to See

Three Days to See假如给我三天光明

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 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.

such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? what happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?

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.

most of us take life for granted. we know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future, when we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. we seldom think of it. the Days stretch out in an endless vista. so we go about our petty task, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.

the same lethargy, i am afraid, characterizes the use of our faculties and senses. only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. but those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, without concentration, and with little

appreciation. it is the same old story of not being grateful for what we conscious of health until we are ill.

i have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few Days at some time during his early adult life. darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. now and then i have tested my Seeing friends to discover what they See. recently i was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and i asked her what she had observed. “nothing in particular,” she replied. i might have been incredulous had i not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago i became convinced that the Seeing See little.

how was it possible, i asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and See nothing worthy of note? i who cannot See find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. i feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. i pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch,or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. in spring i touch the branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening nature after her winter’s sleep i feel the delightful, velvety texture 27 of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of nature is revealed to me. occasionally, if i am very fortunate, i place my hand gently in a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. i am delighted to have cool waters of a brook rush through my open fingers. to me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious persian rug. to me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips. at times my heart cries out with longing to See all these things. if i can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. yet, those who have eyes apparently See little. the panorama of color and action fill the world is taken for granted. it is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light and the gift of sight is used only as mere convenience rather that as a means of adding fullness to life. oh, the things that i should See if i had the power of sight for Three Days!

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，26 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。

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？会有多少欣慰和遗憾呢？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、充沛的精力和热情的欣赏来度过，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。

我们大多数人认为生命理所当然，我们明白总有一天我们会死去，但是我们常常把这一天看得非常遥远。当我们身体强壮时，死亡便成了难以相象的事情了。我们很少会考虑它，日子一天天过去，好像没有尽头。所以我们为琐事奔波，并没有意识到我们对待生活的态度是冷漠的。

我想我们在运用我们所有五官时恐怕也同样是冷漠的。只有聋子才珍惜听力，只有盲人才能认识到能见光明的幸运。对于那些成年致盲或失陪的人来说尤其如此。但是那些听力或视力从未遭受损失的人却很少充分利用这些幸运的能力，他们对所见所闻不关注、不欣赏。

这与常说的不失去不懂得珍贵，不生病不知道健康可贵的道理是一样的。我常想如果每一个人在他成年的早些时候，有几天成为了聋子或瞎子也不失为一件幸

事。黑暗将使他更珍惜光明；沉寂将教他知道声音的乐趣。有时我会试探我的非盲的朋友们，想知道他们看见了什么。最近我的一位非常要好的朋友来看我，她刚刚在树林里走了很长时间，我问她看见了什么。“没什么特别的，”她回答说。如不是我早已习惯了这样的回答，我也许不会轻易相信，因为很久以前我就相信了有眼人看不见什么。

我问自己在树林中走了一小时，怎么可能什么值得注意的东西都没有看到呢？而我一个

盲人仅仅通过触摸就发现了数以百计的有趣的东西。我感到树叶的对称美，用手摸着白桦树

光滑的树皮或是松树那粗糙的厚厚的树皮。春天里我满怀着希望触摸着树枝寻找新芽，那是

大自然冬眼后醒来的第一个征象。我感到了花朵的可爱和茸茸的感觉，发现它层层叠叠地绽

开着，大自然的神奇展现在我的面前。当我把手轻轻地放在一棵小树上，如果幸运的话，偶

尔会感到歌唱的小鸟欢快的颤动。我会愉快地让清凉的溪水从手之间流过。对我来说，满地

厚厚的松针和松软的草坪比奢华的波斯地毯更惹人喜爱。对我来说四季变换的景色如同一场

动人心魄的不会完结的戏剧，剧中的人物动作从我的指尖流过。我的心不时在呐喊，带着对

光明的渴望。既然仅仅通过触摸就能使我获得如此多的喜悦，那么光明定会展示更多美好的

事物啊。可惜的是那些有眼睛的人分明看到很少，整个世界缤纷的色彩和万物的活动都被认

为是理所当然。也许不珍惜已经拥有的，想得到还没有得到的是人的特点，但是在光明的世

界里只把视觉用做一种方便的工具，而不是丰富生活的工具，这是令人多么遗憾的事情啊。

噢，假如我拥有三天光明，我将会看见多少事物啊！

第四篇：Three Days to See

Three Days to See

helen keller海伦.凯勒

all of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited andto 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.

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?

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 constantof 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.

most of us take life for granted. we know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future, when we are in , death is all but unimaginable. we seldom think of it. the Days stretch out in an endless vista. so we go about our petty task, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.

the same lethargy, i am afraid, characterizes the use of our faculties and senses. only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. but those who have never sufferedof sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, without concentration, and with little appreciation. it is the same old story of not being grateful for what we conscious of health until we are ill.

i have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few Days at some time during his early adult life. darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.

now and then i have tested my Seeing friends to discover what they See. recently i was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and i asked her what she had observed. “nothing in particular,” she replied. i might have been had i not been accustomed to such responses, for long ago i became convinced that the Seeing See little.

how was it possible, i asked myself, to walk for an hour through the woods and See nothing worthy of note? i who cannot See find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. i feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. i pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. in spring i touch the

branches of trees hopefully in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening nature after her winter’s sleep i feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of nature is revealed to me. occasionally, if i am very fortunate, i place my hand gently in a small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. i am delighted to have cool waters of a brook rush through my open fingers. to me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious persian rug. to me the of seasons is a thrilling and unending drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips. at times my heart cries out with longing to See all these things. if i can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. yet, those who have eyes apparently See little. the panorama of color and action fill the world is taken for granted. it is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light and the gift of sight is used only as mere convenience rather that as a means of adding fullness to life.

oh, the things that i should See if i had the power of sight for Three Days!

specified time 特定的时间panorama范围,全景 buoyant health 身强力壮impairment 损伤 incredulous 不轻信的 pageant盛会

choose the best answer according to the passage.

(1) the central idea that the author tries to show is that___

a. people who live in the shadow of death are more appreciative of the meaning of life.

b. most of us regard if as something quite usual and ordinary while we are healthy.

c. people should value and take advantage of what they have

d. universities should teach their students how to use their eyes.

(2) why does the author mention health in paragraph 6?

a. because it is one of the “faculties and senses”, like sight and hearing.

b. because it illustrates her point about “not being grateful for what we have until we lost it.”

c. because it is the subject of an old story which she has in mind.

d. because health is important for our sight and hearing.

(3) which of the following would be a “blessing”(para.7), if they struck us for a few Days?

a. blindness and deafness.

b. sight and hearing

c. darkness and silence.

d. light and sound

(4) which of the following is not the means through which the author gets to know the personalities of her friends?

a. the thoughts they express to her.

b. a handclasp.

c. watching their reactions.

d. her feeling of their lips with her finger tips.

(5) what is the most impressive qualities of this essay?

a. humour

b. directness and sincerity.

c. variety of facts and examples.

d. skillful argument.

答案：（1）c 本文的主题是人们应该珍惜并充分利用所拥有的东西，如生命、视力、听力等。

a、b、d都 是文章的细节部分。

（2）b 作者认为，只有失去健康的人才知道健康的可贵，这正好说明了作者的观点：“只有失去了才知道可贵”。

（3）a 作者认为，如果每个人在刚刚成年时就过几天既盲又聋的日子，这对他们来说是一件幸事，因为只有这样他们才会更加珍惜他们的视力和听力。

（4）c作者是盲聋人，当然不会通过“看他们的反应”来了解朋友的个性。

（5）b本文作者以自己的亲身经历直率而真诚地阐明了自己的观点。

[1] thrilling 令人激动的

[2] specified time 特定的时间

[3] doomed man垂死的人

[4] sphere of activities 活动范围

[5] delimit 划清界限

[6] mortal beings 凡人

[7] vigor 元气, 活力

[8] panorama范围,全景

[9] motto 格言

[10] mellow醇的

[11] take?for granted 将?认为是注重的

[12] buoyant health 身强力壮

[13] vista前景

[14] lethargy 冷淡,冷漠

[15] faculty本能

[16] billings 节目程序

[17] impairment 损伤

[18] incredulous 不轻信的

[19] worthy of note 值得注意

[20] symmetry 对称

[21] birch 白桦

[22] shaggy表面粗糙的

[23] texture质地

[24] miracle 奇迹

[25] miracle 颤动

[26] pageant盛会

[27] gaze 凝视

[28] cherish珍爱

[29] compassion 怜悯

[30] personalities个性

[31] countenance 容颜

[32] subtleties 精明

[33] spectacular 壮观的

第五篇：Three Days to See

《Three Days to See》

"if i was reading the book of light after Three Days, i know and understand the helen is deaf in one class, but she didn't want to yield, but iraq, an optimistic attitude to face upwards of her voice that had no light and the world. she just rely on touch, became familiar in five languages, just learned scholars, and learned to speak, thus can better communicate with people, it is simply a miracle. she is happy "with" to overcome the defects of physiological caused pain, her attitude towards life and her efforts to make her world become colorful, full of songs and story and her spirit moved me. at the same time, also let me back to their weaknesses and felt ashamed. i believe i'm helen keller. the enlightenment and deeds, i will never yield to pain and suffering and used to challenge ed we're lucky, we have good - a sound body, good learning environment, excellent today, i must grasp every minute and second, don't let time wasted, don't wait until lost treasure!