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我的生活海伦·凯勒自传
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

英文中文双语对照双语交替

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Chapter XXIII

第二十三章

Would that I could enrich this sketch with the names of all those who have ministered to my happiness! Some of them would be found written in our literature and dear to the hearts of many, while others would be wholly unknown to most of my readers. But their influence, though it escapes fame, shall live immortal in the lives that have been sweetened and ennobled by it. Those are red-letter days in our lives when we meet people who thrill us like a fine poem, people whose handshake is brimful of unspoken sympathy, and whose sweet, rich natures impart to our eager, impatient spirits a wonderful restfulness which, in its essence, is divine. The perplexities, irritations and worries that have absorbed us pass like unpleasant dreams, and we wake to see with new eyes and hear with new ears the beauty and harmony of God's real world. The solemn nothings that fill our everyday life blossom suddenly into bright possibilities. In a word, while such friends are near us we feel that all is well. Perhaps we never saw them before, and they may never cross our life's path again; but the influence of their calm, mellow natures is a libation poured upon our discontent, and we feel its healing touch, as the ocean feels the mountain stream freshening its brine.

我所以不惜笔墨地提到很多人的名字，是因为他们曾带给我无尽的快乐！其中一些人已经被记载在文献中，并且成为世人瞩目的焦点。还有一些人则完全不为我的读者所知，虽然他们默默无闻，但是他们积极而崇高的生活态度对我的影响是永恒的。当我们遇到像一首绝妙诗歌一样令我们怦然心动的人时，那一刻就是我们生命中的节日。同这些人握手时，你能感觉到他们的手掌充满了无言的同情；对于饥渴而烦躁的心灵而言，他们那美好而富足的情怀带给我们奇妙的宁静感，而这种宁静的本质，就是神圣。种种的困惑、恼怒和忧虑就像令人讨厌的梦境一样占据了我们过去的生活，当我们再次醒来时，我们会用全新的眼睛和耳朵来感受世间的美丽与和谐，来感受神所创造的真实世界的伟大。我们的日常生活蓦然间变得一片光明，带来这种奇效的唯有“神圣”，而非他物。一言以蔽之，有这类朋友相伴在左右，我们就会感到无比充实。也许我们以前从来没有见过他们，而且萍水相逢过后，他们可能再也不会同我们相遇，但是，他们那沉静而成熟的气质一定会对我产生深远影响，我们所有的不快都会随着他们敬拜天地的杯中酒一饮而尽；我们会感受到它疗伤时的轻柔触摸，正如大海能感受到咸涩的苦水正在被融入的河流所冲淡。

I have often been asked, "Do not people bore you?" I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

我经常被人问及这样的问题：“难道人们不会令你心烦吗？”我实在不明白这是什么意思。我猜想这种愚蠢而怪异的声音可能来自新闻记者的报道。当然，这类报道往往是不合时宜的。我也不喜欢那些对我的理解力品头论足的人，他们在和你一起走路时，总是试图缩短他们自己的步幅，只为了迎合你行走的速度。事实上，这两类虚伪的人同样令人无法容忍。

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.

我所接触的那一双双手虽然默默无语，但是它们却对我有着非比寻常的意义。其中，有一些手的触摸是傲慢而无礼的。我曾遇到过一些相当缺少快乐的人，当我紧紧握住他们那冷若冰霜的指尖时，我的感觉就好像正在同一场来自东北的暴风雪握手。而另外有一些人，他们的双手似乎存有阳光的余温，所以，同他们握手可以温暖我的心。也许只有小孩子的手才会抓住你不放，因为他们对你有一种强烈的信任感；我可以感觉到，他们（小孩子）的手中为我储藏了大量的阳光，正如他们为别人预备了充满爱意的眼神一样。总之，一次热情的握手，或者一封表达友情的书信，都会带给我最真切的快乐。

I have many far-off friends whom I have never seen. Indeed they are so many that I have often been unable to reply to their letters; but I wish to say here that I am always grateful for their kind words, however insufficiently I acknowledge them.

我有许多相隔万里而从未谋面的朋友。他们为数众多，乃至于我无法一一回答他们的来信，但是我愿意在此重申，对于他们那情真意切的话语，我始终心存感激，虽然我对他们知之甚少。

I count it one of the sweetest privileges of my life to have known and conversed with many men of genius. Only those who knew Bishop Brooks can appreciate the joy his friendship was to those who possessed it. As a child I loved to sit on his knee and clasp his great hand with one of mine, while Miss Sullivan spelled into the other his beautiful words about God and the spiritual world. I heard him with a child's wonder and delight. My spirit could not reach up to his, but he gave me a real sense of joy in life, and I never left him without carrying away a fine thought that grew in beauty and depth of meaning as I grew. Once, when I was puzzled to know why there were so many religions, he said: "There is one universal religion, Helen--the religion of love. Love your Heavenly Father with your whole heart and soul, love every child of God as much as ever you can, and remember that the possibilities of good are greater than the possibilities of evil; and you have the key to Heaven." And his life was a happy illustration of this great truth. In his noble soul love and widest knowledge were blended with faith that had become insight. He saw

在生活当中，我有幸享受到了许多“特权”，其中最为我珍视的就是同那些天才人物的交谈。只要认识布鲁克斯主教的人，都能从与他的友谊当中体会到切实的快乐。还是一个小孩子的时候，我就喜欢坐在他的腿上玩；我用一只手紧紧攥住他的大手，而他的关于神和灵魂世界的精彩述说，则被苏立文小姐一一拼写在我的另一只手上。我带着小孩子的好奇和喜悦听他娓娓道来，虽然我的精神境界无法达到他那样的高度，但是他确实让我领悟到了什么叫做真正快乐的生活。在我成长的过程中，没有他的悉心教诲，我就不会明了杰出思想的魅力和其深邃的内涵。记得有一次，我对世界上竟然存在着如此多的宗教十分不解。布鲁克斯主教对我说道：“天地间只有一种宗教，海伦——那就是爱的宗教，用你全部的心灵去爱你的天父，尽你的一切可能去爱每一个神的孩子，要时刻牢记，正义的力量终将会战胜邪恶，懂得了这个道理，你便得到了进入天堂的钥匙。”事实上，他的生活正是这种伟大真理的完美写照。在他崇高的博爱思想和广博的学识之中，已经被深深地融入了信仰的力量。他看到了——

God in all that liberates and lifts,

在人类争取解放和自由的过程中，神无处不在，

In all that humbles, sweetens and consoles.

在所有卑微者面前，神会施与伤者爱的援手

Bishop Brooks taught me no special creed or dogma; but he impressed upon my mind two great ideas--the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and made me feel that these truths underlie all creeds and forms of worship. God is love, God is our Father, we are His children; therefore the darkest clouds will break and though right be worsted, wrong shall not triumph.

布鲁克斯主教传授给我的并非特殊的信条或教义，但是他把两种伟大的观念赐给了我——神的父亲般的慈爱，以及人的兄弟般的情谊。我以为，这些真理正是构成一切信条和崇拜形式的基础。神是爱，神是我们的父，我们是他的孩子。有了这样的信念，即使是最黑暗的云也会被吹散，而且，这里也不会有罪恶与不义的容身之地。

I am too happy in this world to think much about the future, except to remember that I have cherished friends awaiting me there in God's beautiful Somewhere. In spite of the lapse of years, they seem so close to me that I should not think it strange if at any moment they should clasp my hand and speak words of endearment as they used to before they went away.

在这个世界上，我是感到如此地快乐，以至于很少考虑到未来；但是有一件事我永远记在心里——我所珍爱的友人们正在神创造的爱的国度里随时迎候我。尽管失散多年，但是他们似乎就在我的身边；假如在某一时刻，他们抓住我的手，如同以往一样对我说着贴心话，那么我是不会感到丝毫惊奇的。

Since Bishop Brooks died I have read the Bible through; also some philosophical works on religion, among them Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell" and Drummond's "Ascent of Man," and I have found no creed or system more soul-satisfying than Bishop Brooks's creed of love. I knew Mr. Henry Drummond, and the memory of his strong, warm hand-clasp is like a benediction. He was the most sympathetic of companions. He knew so much and was so genial that it was impossible to feel dull in his presence.

自从布鲁克斯主教去世后，我通读了整部《圣经》，还有其他的一些宗教哲学著作。这其中就包括斯韦登伯格的《天堂与地狱》和遮蒙德的《人类的阶梯》，可是我发现，同布鲁克斯主教“爱的信念”相比，这些人所持的信条或教理都无法令人获得心灵上的满足。我认识亨利·遮蒙德先生，印象中，他那双有力、温暖的手如同一句热情的祝福语。他是最富有同情心的良友，他是如此地和蔼可亲，只要有他在身边，你就不会感到枯燥乏味。

I remember well the first time I saw Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had invited Miss Sullivan and me to call on him one Sunday afternoon. It was early in the spring, just after I had learned to speak. We were shown at once to his library where we found him seated in a big armchair by an open fire which glowed and crackled on the hearth, thinking, he said, of other days.

我很清楚地记得第一次见到奥利佛·温代尔·霍尔姆斯博士时的情景。那是在一个星期天的下午，他邀请我和苏立文小姐去他家做客。当时正值初春季节，那时我刚刚学会了开口讲话。我们立刻被人带到了他的图书馆，他坐在一张大扶手椅里，壁炉里的炭火噼噼啪啪地烧得正旺，他说他在想着往日的时光。

"And listening to the murmur of the River Charles," I suggested.

“还在倾听查尔斯河的潺潺流水。”我试探着说道。

"Yes," he replied, "the Charles has many dear associations for me." There was an odour of print and leather in the room which told me that it was full of books, and I stretched out my hand instinctively to find them. My fingers lighted upon a beautiful volume of Tennyson's poems, and when Miss Sullivan told me what it was I began to recite:

“不错，”他回答道，“我同查尔斯河的关系可是亲密无间呢。”房子里面有一股油墨和皮革的味道，这里显然到处都是书，于是我不由自主地伸手摸索起来。我的指尖无意中落在了丁尼生的一部诗集上，当苏立文小姐把诗集的名字告诉我以后，我就开始背诵：

Break, break, break

断裂，断裂，彻底断裂吧

On thy cold gray stones, O sea!

在你那冰冷的灰石头上，哦，浪涛！

But I stopped suddenly. I felt tears on my hand. I had made my beloved poet weep, and I was greatly distressed. He made me sit in his armchair, while he brought different interesting things for me to examine, and at his request I recited "The Chambered Nautilus," which was then my favorite poem. After that I saw Dr. Holmes many times and learned to love the man as well as the poet.

突然间，我停止了背诵。我感觉到我的手上浸满了泪水，我已经令我所钟爱的诗人落泪。为此，我也感到了巨大的忧伤。他让我坐在他的扶手椅上，同时，他还拿出了很多有趣的东西让我查验。在他的请求下，我还背诵了《背负房间的鹦鹉螺》，这是我当时最喜欢的一首诗。后来，我又多次见到过霍尔姆斯博士，我从他身上不但学到了诗，也学到了爱。

One beautiful summer day, not long after my meeting with Dr. Holmes, Miss Sullivan and I visited Whittier in his quiet home on the Merrimac. His gentle courtesy and quaint speech won my heart. He had a book of his poems in raised print from which I read "In School Days." He was delighted that I could pronounce the words so well, and said that he had no difficulty in understanding me. Then I asked many questions about the poem, and read his answers by placing my fingers on his lips. He said he was the little boy in the poem, and that the girl's name was Sally, and more which I have forgotten. I also recited "Laus Deo," and as I spoke the concluding verses, he placed in my hands a statue of a slave from whose crouching figure the fetters were falling, even as they fell from Peter's limbs when the angel led him forth out of prison. Afterward we went into his study, and he wrote his autograph* for my teacher and expressed his admiration of her work, saying to me, "She is thy spiritual liberator." Then he led me to the gate and kissed me tenderly on my forehead. I promised to visit him again the following summer; but he died before the promise was fulfilled.

在会见霍尔姆斯博士不久之后的一个阳光明媚的夏日，我和苏立文小姐在“梅里麦克”号上拜访了惠蒂尔先生。他温文尔雅的举止和不俗的谈吐赢得了我的好感。他曾出版过一本凸版印刷的诗集，我选读了其中的一首《校园时光》。他惊讶于我的读音是如此地准确，还说理解起来毫无困难。随后我又问了他很多关于诗歌的问题。我把手指放在他的嘴唇上，这样就可以“读出”他的回答。他说他自己就是诗中的那个小男孩，而那个女孩的名字叫萨莉，他当然不只说了这些，但是我大都不记得了。我还为他背诵了《洛斯迪奥》，当我吟诵到最后的诗句时，他把一个奴隶的雕像放在了我的手中，奴隶身体蜷曲，脚踝拴着脚镣，就像刚被天使从监狱中解救出来的样子——奴隶一下子瘫倒在彼得的翅膀之下。后来，我们走进了他的书房，他不但为我的老师亲笔签名，还向她表达了钦佩之意。他对我说：“她是你灵魂的拯救者。”最后，他领我来到门口，并且轻柔地吻了吻我的额头。我答应他来年夏天还去拜访他，可是不等我履行诺言，他便去世了。

Dr. Edward Everett Hale is one of my very oldest friends. I have known him since I was eight, and my love for him has increased with my years. His wise, tender sympathy has been the support of Miss Sullivan and me in times of trial and sorrow, and his strong hand has helped us over many rough places; and what he has done for us he has done for thousands of those who have difficult tasks to accomplish. He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free. What he has taught we have seen beautifully expressed in his own life--love of country, kindness to the least of his brethren, and a sincere desire to live upward and onward. He has been a prophet and an inspirer of men, and a mighty doer of the Word, the friend of all his race--God bless him!

爱德华·埃弗里特·黑尔博士是同我交往时间最久的朋友之一，我八岁时就认识他了。随着年龄的增长，我对他的敬意也与日俱增。每当苦难和悲伤降临的时候，他的智慧和同情心给了我和苏立文小姐以强有力的支持；而且，他不但对我们伸出援手，对于成千上万坎坷无助的生灵，他同样给予无私的关爱。他用新酿制的“爱的美酒”为陈腐教条的“旧酒”注入活力。他向人们展示了信念、生存与自由的真谛。在他的言传身教之中，我们也看到了他表里如一的高尚生活——对故土的热爱，对每一个同胞兄弟的仁慈之心，以及积极进取的生活态度，这些无一不显示出他坦荡磊落的人格魅力。在我的眼中，他就是一位先知，一位灵魂施救者，一位精尽不怠的圣徒。所有认识他的朋友们啊——让我们祈祷神保佑他！

Miss Keller, Miss Sullivan and Dr. Edward Everett Hale, 1902

凯勒小姐，小姐沙利文博士和爱德华埃弗里特黑尔，1902年

I have already written of my first meeting with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. Since then I have spent many happy days with him at Washington and at his beautiful home in the heart of Cape Breton Island, near Baddeck, the village made famous by Charles Dudley Warner's book. Here in Dr. Bell's laboratory, or in the fields on the shore of the great Bras d'Or, I have spent many delightful hours listening to what he had to tell me about his experiments, and helping him fly kites by means of which he expects to discover the laws that shall govern the future air-ship. Dr. Bell is proficient in many fields of science, and has the art of making every subject he touches interesting, even the most abstruse theories. He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor. He has a humorous and poetic side, too. His dominating passion is his love for children. He is never quite so happy as when he has a little deaf child in his arms. His labours in behalf of the deaf will live on and bless generations of children yet to come; and we love him alike for what he himself has achieved and for what he has evoked from others.

我已经描述过我同亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔博士初次会面时的情景。自那以后，我又在他华盛顿的家中度过了很多个愉快的日子。他美丽的家坐落在布赖顿岛海角的腹地，毗邻巴代克，这个小村因被查尔斯·达德利·沃纳写进书里而闻名。无论在贝尔博士的实验室，还是在辽阔的巴拉斯德奥尔海岸，我兴味盎然地听他讲述自己的试验，有时一听就是好几个小时。我还帮他放风筝——博士期望借此发现控制未来飞行器飞行的规律。贝尔博士不但精通各类学科，而且具有把那些知识化腐朽为神奇的本事，即便是最深奥的理论，他也能够轻松破解。同他在一起，你不禁会产生出这样的感觉，假如你只有有限的一点时间，那么，你也有可能成为一个发明家。当然，他的身上也具有幽默和诗情画意的一面。不妨说，他对孩子们的那份爱是发自肺腑的。当他把一个失聪的小孩抱在怀里时，他简直高兴得无以复加。他为了聋哑人的利益而付出的劳动，将保佑一代又一代儿童健康成长。我们爱他，不只是因为他所取得的伟大成就，还因为他唤醒了他人心中的希望。

During the two years I spent in New York I had many opportunities to talk with distinguished people whose names I had often heard, but whom I had never expected to meet. Most of them I met first in the house of my good friend, Mr. Laurence Hutton. It was a great privilege to visit him and dear Mrs. Hutton in their lovely home, and see their library and read the beautiful sentiments and bright thoughts gifted friends had written for them. It has been truly said that Mr. Hutton has the faculty of bringing out in every one the best thoughts and kindest sentiments. One does not need to read "A Boy I Knew" to understand him--the most generous, sweet-natured boy I ever knew, a good friend in all sorts of weather, who traces the footprints of love in the life of dogs as well as in that of his fellowmen.

我在纽约生活的两年间，曾有很多机会同那些耳熟能详的著名人物交谈，但是我决不会去刻意求见他们。他们中的很多人在同我见过一次面后就成了好朋友，比如劳伦斯·休顿先生。我曾十分荣幸地拜访过他和贤惠的休顿夫人，我还参观了他家的图书馆，并且读到了他的天才朋友们写给他们的留言，这些留言饱含感情，不乏真知灼见。你确实可以这样说，休顿先生能够把每一个人的优秀思想和善良品质发掘出来，他的确具有这样的本事。一个人不必阅读《我所认识的一个男孩》就可以了解他——他是我认识的最慷慨、最善良的男孩；也是那种在任何情况下都对你不离不弃的好朋友。在生活的漫漫征途中，他会一路寻着爱的足迹，并从中找到他的手足同胞。

Mrs. Hutton is a true and tried friend. Much that I hold sweetest, much that I hold most precious, I owe to her. She has oftenest advised and helped me in my progress through college. When I find my work particularly difficult and discouraging, she writes me letters that make me feel glad and brave; for she is one of those from whom we learn that one painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

休顿夫人也是那种患难见真情的朋友。我被浓浓的友情所包围，我拥有了最珍贵的礼物，这一切都要归功于她。她不遗余力地对我谆谆教诲，而且帮助我完成了大学的学业。每当我在学习中身处困境而心灰意冷时，她就会写信鼓励我，让我重新燃起斗志。从她身上，我们学到了这样一条真理——只有克服了眼前的困难，下一步的路途才会变得平坦易行。

Mr. Hutton introduced me to many of his literary friends, greatest of whom are Mr. William Dean Howells and Mark Twain. I also met Mr. Richard Watson Gilder and Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman. I also knew Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, the most delightful of story-tellers and the most beloved friend, whose sympathy was so broad that it may be truly said of him, he loved all living things and his neighbour as himself. Once Mr. Warner brought to see me the dear poet of the woodlands--Mr. John Burroughs. They were all gentle and sympathetic and I felt the charm of their manner as much as I had felt the brilliancy of their essays and poems. I could not keep pace with all these literary folk as they glanced from subject to subject and entered into deep dispute, or made conversation sparkle with epigrams and happy witticisms. I was like little Ascanius, who followed with unequal steps the heroic strides of Aeneas on his march toward mighty destinies. But they spoke many gracious words to me. Mr. Gilder told me about his moonlight journeys across the vast desert to the Pyramids, and in a letter he wrote me he made his mark under his signature deep in the paper so that I could feel it. This reminds me that Dr. Hale used to give a personal touch to his letters to me by pricking his signature in braille. I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying and doing everything. I feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake. Even while he utters his cynical wisdom in an indescribably droll voice, he makes you feel that his heart is a tender Iliad of human sympathy.

休顿先生还把他很多文学界的朋友介绍给我，包括大名鼎鼎的威廉·迪安·豪厄尔斯和马克·吐温。我见到了理查德·沃特森·吉尔德先生和埃德蒙德·克拉伦斯·斯泰德曼先生，还结识了查尔斯·达德利·沃纳先生。他是最讨人喜欢的“说书人”，也是我最钟爱的友人；他有着无比深切的同情心，爱人如己。记得有一次，沃纳先生带我拜会了可敬的“林地诗人”——约翰·巴勒斯先生。在我看来，他们都是些心地善良而富于同情心的人，他们的人格魅力正如他们笔下的散文和诗歌一样散发着璀璨的光芒。当然，我是无法同这些文学大家盘经论道的，尤其是当他们在不同话题之间纵横捭阖，或者辩论正酣、妙语连珠的时候。我就像小阿斯卡涅斯一样，他步履蹒跚地跟在英雄父亲埃涅阿斯身后，无怨无悔地迎接命运的安排。他们热情地同我谈天说地，吉尔德先生向我讲述了他月夜旅行的经历，他曾穿越浩瀚的大沙漠前往金字塔。在给我写的信中，他特意在落款后面留下一个深深的标记，这样我就可以在纸上摸到它了。而黑尔博士自有他私人的问候方式，他会把落款签名用盲文刺在纸上。我还通过触摸马克·吐温的嘴唇而“阅读”了他的一两篇小说。马克·吐温有着自己独特的思维方式，无论讲话做事都个性鲜明。在同他握手时，我能感觉到他那炯炯有神的目光。他经常会以一种难以描述的机智而诙谐的语言针砭时弊，即使在这种时候，他依然会令你感觉到他那如同伊利亚特一样的慈悲心肠。

There are a host of other interesting people I met in New York: Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the beloved editor of St. Nicholas, and Mrs. Riggs (Kate Douglas Wiggin), the sweet author of "Patsy." I received from them gifts that have the gentle concurrence of the heart, books containing their own thoughts, soul-illumined letters, and photographs that I love to have described again and again. But there is not space to mention all my friends, and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of cherubim, things too sacred to set forth in cold print. It is with hesitancy that I have spoken even of Mrs. Laurence Hutton.

在纽约时，我同样遇到了许多有趣的人物：比如玛丽·曼普斯·道奇夫人，就是那位可爱的《圣·尼古拉斯》杂志社的编辑。还有里格斯夫人（即凯特·道格拉斯·维津），她是《帕特希》一书的作者。我不但感受到了她们的爱心，还收到了包含了她们个人思想的书籍、启迪心灵的书信，以及那些让我爱不释手，描述了一遍又一遍的照片。当然，在这里不可能把我所有的朋友逐一提及，但是关于他们的点点滴滴，全都无一例外地被珍藏在天使的翅膀之下，这些记忆是如此地庄严神圣，远非文字所能表达清楚。因此，我是怀着犹豫不决的心情来（向你们）介绍劳伦斯·休顿夫人的。

I shall mention only two other friends. One is Mrs. William Thaw, of Pittsburgh, whom I have often visited in her home, Lyndhurst. She is always doing something to make some one happy, and her generosity and wise counsel have never failed my teacher and me in all the years we have known her.

我还应该在这里提一提我的另外两个朋友。一位是匹兹堡的威廉·肖夫人，我经常去她在林德赫斯特的家做客。她为人热情，总是做一些让人开心的事。在同她交往的这些年里，她的循循善诱和从未间断的慷慨援助令我和我的老师永生难忘。

To the other friend I am also deeply indebted. He is well known for the powerful hand with which he guides vast enterprises, and his wonderful abilities have gained for him the respect of all. Kind to every one, he goes about doing good, silent and unseen. Again I touch upon the circle of honoured names I must not mention; but I would fain acknowledge his generosity and affectionate interest which make it possible for me to go to college.

我当然不会忘记另一位于我有恩的朋友。他以强有力的手段统领着巨大的产业帝国，他杰出的（经营）才能为他赢得了世人的赞誉。他待人友善，在不为人知的状态下默默地做着善事。作为承诺，我不能在这些令人尊敬的人士中说出他的名字；但是，我一定要感谢他慷慨无私的资助，否则，我是不可能迈入大学校门的。

Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

不妨这样说，正是我的朋友们成就了我的生活和我的故事。他们想方设法地把我的缺陷转变成一种荣耀（神）的特权，使我在丧失光明的黑暗中也能平静而愉快地行走。

* "With great admiration of thy noble work in releasing from bondage the mind of thy dear pupil, I am truly thy friend. JOHN G. WHITTIER."

“随着你的崇高工作十分钦佩从束缚你的亲爱的学生的心灵释放，我是你真正的朋友。约翰G惠蒂尔。”