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"The Dreams That Come True"(4) - by Helen Keller

2010年10月22日 13時13分47秒 | 英語

Dreams That Come True, as published in Personality, (December, 1927)

Transcription

"The Dreams That Come True"
--When One who Can neither See nor Hear Finds Joy in a Flower Garden
by Helen Keller

IV

There was another world of beauty for me in those gardens in the evergreens. There is plenty of room for them, and consequently they have a chance to grow unhampered. Every kind of conifer which will make friends with our climate has been brought there, and planted where it shows to the best advantage. My fingers revelled in many new forms from a superb giant pine with thick, bright green needles to an exquisite small white pine with thin, soft foliage, almost like a silk fringe. A light breeze followed us as we passed from one to the another, and I listened to them as they played the invisible violins of the air -- an inexpressibly restful music. Then there were the firs and spruces John Ruskin had so enthusiastically described with their branches extending in magnificent ridge upon ridge and the sunbeams dancing in and out, offsetting the darker greens. I have always loved evergreens with a deep love. There is nothing in nature which has such a potent, deep-rooted appeal for me. They seem human, and at the same time they symbolize whatever is imperishable and uplifting in life -- hope, courage, and serene faith. Their unfading greenness and fragrance breathe immortality, and are a blessing to me amid the grim monotony of winter. It may be imagined how gratified I was when Mr. Doubleday said that he also found peculiar happiness in the companionship of pines and firs, and had worked for many years to have that wonderful retreat of evergreens made possible right in the heart of a restrictive, machine-driven civilization. He also told me how several men who had visited him, among them John Burroughs and John Muir, had planted a tree in that garden.

Truly, I left those gardens immensely refreshed, with a crowd of bright thoughts tumbling out of their hidden nests and burrows to put me in the right mood for my work again.

Such is the world I live in, and yet how few people understand the simplest truths about it! I have learned many things which stand out boldly in my mind, and when I think of some of them, I wonder, and say to myself, "Do other people have similar thoughts and emotions? Are they as conscious as I am of the life of the spirit?" From what the people tell me I must needs (sic) conclude that physical limitations somehow strengthen and clarify intellectual processes. I confess, it appears paradoxical that weakness should develop strength. Still, there is scriptural authority for this belief. St. Paul says, "When I am weak, then am I strong" -- which is an exceedingly comforting thought to those who are physically damaged.

The explanation undoubtedly is that limitations drive one inward for diversion, with the result that one's own thoughts become absorbingly interesting. The small events of daily life take on extraordinary importance when Celestial Artist combines them with spiritual elements in the Laboratory of Mind. It is a miracle how an incident of no particular value comes out of the mental crucible beautiful and precious. Little by little the transformation and classification of ideas take place in the brain, where are registered the beings and the events which give delight to circumscribed lives. Stored in the memory, they furnish plentiful entertainment for solitary hours; and that is why I never feel "deaf blind." I left that horrible abyss of hopelessness long, long ago.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do. I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among the flowers. The wind passes, and the flowers are content. But into the sweet night of my individual blindness has come the call -- the urge of others' need. It is as persistent as the love-note which the mother-bird hears when her nestlings are in trouble, and I know that it will never cease until I have done the utmost of which I am capable to help others break down the walls of darkness and pour the sweet waters of joy into the deserts of silence.

source:http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=193&SubTopicID=17&DocumentID=1190

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台風情報(台風13号)-03-(「空」の写真&動画)

2010年10月22日 10時42分33秒 | 僕のフォト
Taking pictures is an easy job, but the selection is tough enough. Please regret to any dissatisfaction.

写真:(All by Canon Pc1022)

19日:


20日:
1;2

21日:
1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12

22日:
1;2;3;4

AVI動画:Avi Movie(by Canon Pc1022)

1)--just 10 seconds length;2)--just 10 seconds length;3)--just 10 seconds length;4)--just 17 seconds length;5)--just 11 seconds length;6)--just 11 seconds length

台風情報(台風13号)-02

2010年10月21日 03時27分21秒 | hot news today
Now, I am staying inside the room, but the strong wind is showing its power by its "Woo, woo"sound. I could hear it and feel it in the dark and silence night...

Walking on the street, you could also see a lot of old and weak trees' leaves and branches sleeping on the way, it is full of a rich autumn's, even if winter's feeling...


"The Dreams That Come True"(3) - by Helen Keller

2010年10月20日 07時46分05秒 | 英語

Dreams That Come True, as published in Personality, (December, 1927)

Transcription

"The Dreams That Come True"
--When One who Can neither See nor Hear Finds Joy in a Flower Garden
by Helen Keller

III

Are you amazed, O reader, that I should sympathize with the boy's enthusiasm for the circus? Well, I have a perennial desire myself to get under a circus-tent, and be a part of the riotous pageant -- the segregated wonders of the world. I remember that when I was a little girl, not quite seven years old, my teacher took me to the circus. It was the greatest object-lesson of my childhood. My vocabulary was very limited. Miss Sullivan had been teaching me only two months; but I had learned enough words to understand that I was going to touch "very tall, very large, very strong animals." The phaeton came around to the front door, and I touched Charlie, the old horse. He had been in the family longer than I had. I asked if the "animals" were as tall as Charlie. When Miss Sullivan told me that one of them, the elephant, was as high as the phaeton itself, I became so excited I could hardly sit still. Charlie was very slow. I had observed that when the whip was applied to his fat sides, he went a little faster. I seized the whip, and before Miss Sullivan could stop me, I had given the poor old fellow a terrible whack which made him rear, and nearly upset the phaeton. My teacher quieted Charlie, and delayed our progress long enough to make me understand that if I did that again, I should go right home and never, never, never see the huge elephant.

The first thing of which I was conscious when we finally got inside the tent was a strange, terrifying smell. I clutched Miss Sullivan's skirt, and for a moment my impulse to run away was stronger than my curiosity. But, her hand on one side and the big hand of the circus man on the other side reassured me. They gave me a bag of peanuts and took me at once to see the elephant. I felt his huge forelegs, and the circus man lifted me up on his shoulder, so that I could touch the creature's head and fan-like ears and his broad back, on which there was an Oriental silk covering with tassels and bells. (Some one was going to ride him later.) I was told to give him some peanuts, and perhaps he would let me touch his "long nose" and put it into his mouth. I was amazed, and a little angry; for I liked peanuts, and I had intended to eat some myself. But my disappointment was only for a second or two. Some one gave me another bag of peanuts, and I was allowed to feel my benefactress's beautiful, slim body. She was a trapeze performer, and wore only pink tights. She laughed with pretty confusion at my scrutiny, and kissed me.

I also made the acquaintance of the Arabian marvels and their gorgeous riders, and felt the splendid chariots. I was allowed to sit in one of them like a gypsy princess. The camel was made to kneel, and let me climb up on his queer, humpy back. But oh, the smell of him! At last the wonderful hour came to an end, and we had to leave. My dejection was a little lightened by my teacher's assurance that the circus would came (sic) back after days and days, and I should be taken there again. Of course all the details of this strange nomadic caravan are intensely interesting to any child, and to one who had almost no contact with the outer world they were overwhelmingly fascinating.

What a far cry it is from the automobile which bore me along at the rate of twenty miles in half an hour to that slow horse plodding a mile in the same period of time and an old-fashioned circus in an out-of-the-way village! But it is one way to illustrate the magical changes I have witnessed in the past forty years, and the piled up interest and novelty of my present experiences. When my friends and I arrived at the great publishing- house, Mr. Doubleday received us with cordial kindness, and from his personality and conversation I judged he was a lover of nature as well as a collector and distributor of books.

After a few minutes' chat we went out into the gardens, and smell roses I did! Multitudes of them. There seemed to be as many kinds and scents and ways of growing as there were roses. Gorgeous ramblers climbed up with insatiate desire and tossed great clusters in the breeze. Long-petalled, curly-headed roses romped and spread themselves out like active, eager children seeking adventure. Delicate roses with single petals and slender stems trembled in my hand, while large, full roses exacted tribute with stately grace. All roses that are most fondly twined with memories of home and simple joys grew there, and my fingers thrilled as I recognized the moss-rose of my childhood. Some of the roses were so high and large that they seemed like cascades dancing softly down from the sky.

But I did much more than smell roses. For there were quantities of peonies, in all their splendor and stateliness, all kinds of lilies and pinks and larkspur and masses of honeysuckle. Every breath was a delight, and every flower touched glowed with tints of inexhaustible beauty which no mortal eye may behold.

source:http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=193&SubTopicID=17&DocumentID=1190

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>粤府文化人人賞(06)-20101019

2010年10月19日 19時42分05秒 | 文化
中午:
(1、12:00pm-90.6MHZ広東仏山三水台 -《西游記》(吴承恩)-播講者:林兆明2010-10-19;
2、12:00pm-94.6MHZ広東仏山台 -《水浒伝》(施耐菴、羅貫中)-播講者:張悦楷)

傍晚:
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Tv Survey(0022)-About 600M's Canton Tower(広州塔).

2010年10月09日 15時12分01秒 | survey
29th, Sep, Tv survey's topic is "Do you like the name of new Canton Tv Tower named as 'Canton Tower'(広州塔)? " The answer is about 2,500 say YES, about 6,400 say NO, and about 1,800 say JUST ACCEPTABLE(NOT LIKE).

I think, many many people donot like this name, it isnot for its name relating with a city's name, or it couldnot show any special character and beautiful personality. Around the world, some names of this kind of tower certainly relating with locating city, for example: Tokyo Tower, Sydney Tower, Berliner Fernsehturm, N Seoul Tower, Montreal Tower, ...(http://www.great-towers.com/towers/index_us.html) because something has happened around it.

The 1st event, in last year(2009), from 16th, Sep to 12th, Nov, Canton began an activity-collect a name for new Tv Tower located in Canton in the global range. The result is announced on 14th, Sep, 2009, on the list-No.1 name is "Haixin Tower(海心)". It pay it for 100,000 yuan(1,500,000 円) as price. In another first 10 names,from 2nd -4th everyone got 20,000 yuan(300,000 円), from 6th-10th, everyone got 10,000 yuan(150,000円).

After this very difficult seletion, on ,local managers threw another decision, "they want to collect another name." The investiment company is belong to state assets company. Are there any unsuitable thing?

The 2nd event, managers suddenly announce this new Tower will influence airline's safety and it must be shorten low 10 meters, so it cost 10 million
yuan(1,500 million 円) again.

The last result Altitude is: 600 meters.

Then people surprise why it would be allowed before its design and they should have do enough better communciation with Air traffic management bureau CAAC(Civil Aviation Administration of China) at long long ago. Are there any unsuitable thing?

The 3rd event, the burget is from about 1.6 billion-->2.2 billion-->over 3 billion(2.95 billion). Are there any unsuitable thing?

Others's puzzles: Project Delivery System、Operations Option, etc. Are there any unsuitable thing?

...a lot, a lot, this is the main cause of why people donot like it.

Named Activitieshttp://news.dayoo.com/guangzhou/200909/15/73437_10793104_2.htm;
1st named result:http://news.163.com/09/1115/06/5O51A0S20001124J.html;
2nd named again:http://news.dayoo.com/guangzhou/201007/25/73437_13390952.htm;
2nd named result:http://news.dayoo.com/guangzhou/201009/28/73437_14010238.htm;
Comparing with(New Tokyo Tower):http://club.dayoo.com/read-cityonline-666355.htm;
Building:http://www.0758net.com/bencandy-28-7217-1.htm;
Cost 01:(广州新电视塔工程建设完成投资1.04亿元)http://www.tjcn.org/tjgb/201002/3754.html;
Cost 02:(记者昨天从广州城建方面获悉,工程投资约16亿元的广州新电视塔工程)http://www.guangzhou.gov.cn/node_691/node_609/2006-06/1149658634109483.shtml;
Cost 03:(广州新电视塔“小蛮腰”的造价高达29.5亿)http://cache.chat.dayoo.com/2010/node_23540/node_25483/link/1285405773572105.shtml;
Cost 04:(实际总投资30.1亿元)http://www.bjdefali.com/index_3.asp?xxpxddd=417913&xxpxccc=695969;
Puzzle 01:(广州新电视塔4个标段的前3个标段一共被砍下4个亿)http://www.ycwb.com/gdjsb/2008-05/16/content_1890059.htm
Puzzle 02: (广州市建设投资发展有限公司是1996年9月经广州市人民政府(穗府函[1996]15号文)批复成立,初期注册资金为2,000万元,是广州市人民政府出资设立的国有独资公司;广州新电视塔建设有限公司成立于2004年5月,……发行人持有广州新电视塔建设有限公司90.0%的股权。)http://www.cnstock.com/paper_new/html/2010-02/26/content_72106936.htm;
Puzzle 03:(广州新电视塔建设有限公司注册资本仅1亿元,两个股东按股权比例实际投资7.52亿元(含1亿元注册资金),基建投资借款21.1亿元,实际总投资30.1亿元。……广州新电视塔的建设模式与经营方向令人堪忧)http://www.bjdefali.com/index_3.asp?xxpxddd=417913&xxpxccc=695969;
Lawyer's Point 01:(广州新电视塔命名,还需面对合法性质疑!)http://woyaofawang.blog.sohu.com/160466768.html;
Lawyer's Point 02:(新电视塔命名为何不开听证会)http://woyaofawang.blog.sohu.com/160466702.html;
World Federation of Great Tower:(En)http://www.great-towers.com/towers/index_us.html;
World Federation of Great Tower:(Cn)http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E9%AB%98%E5%A1%94%E8%81%AF%E7%9B%9F;

Canton Official Introduction:http://www.gzwaishi.gov.cn/Item/4043.aspx;
News Introduction 01:http://ycdtb.dayoo.com/html/2009-12/23/content_808545.htm;
News Introduction 02:http://ycdtb.dayoo.com/html/2009-12/23/content_808544.htm;
News Introduction 03:http://ycdtb.dayoo.com/html/2009-12/23/content_808543.htm.

"The Dreams That Come True"(2) - by Helen Keller

2010年10月09日 09時56分53秒 | 英語

Dreams That Come True, as published in Personality, (December, 1927)

Transcription

"The Dreams That Come True"
--When One who Can neither See nor Hear Finds Joy in a Flower Garden
by Helen Keller

II

"Where the soul need not repress
Its music, Lest it should not find
An echo in another's mind."

This is a drowsy day when the summer breeze comes languidly to my cheek, tempting me to go out to my little screened tent, stretch out and dream with the irises and bee-haunted pinks.

There is the hour when the morning sun kisses me awake, and the hour when the burden of material things drops from my shoulder, and I drift to Slumberland. There are hours of breathless haste to catch up with the letters that cover my desk, hours of glad expectancy when a beautiful dream seems about to come true, hours fragrant with tender memories; and always there are the endlessly varied hours I spend with the thinkers and poets and philosophers of all times! How can there be a dull moment when my books are all about me!

I live in a thought-filled world. Those who have all their faculties have no idea what wonderful gardens lie hidden behind the dark silent walls. The very silence vibrates to my every mood and to every consciousness I have of other's existence!

Because silence is such a sublime kind of poetry, it puts soul and meaning into all the vibrations which find their way to me through the channels of touch. There are footsteps of those I love in the house passing and repassing, there is the sudden bark of my beautiful long-eared Great Dane. Every now and then huge trucks filled with material for the new boulevard that is being built not far from this street rumble by, shaking the house and sending little showers of dust down upon the furniture, and instantly I feel astir with the fierce, splendid, never-resting activity of New York. Some time ago I had a breathless moment when twenty aeroplanes rushed by on their way to the Lindbergh parade, and several of them came so near the house I distinctly perceived the roar of the motor through the walls of my study. What a crowd of admiring, far-gazing thoughts that vibration started on the wing. As the birds follow summer, so my mind again followed in the vision the dauntless youth who had crossed the Atlantic alone. Out there, on trackless levels of the night, I again saw him. In my own soul I recreated that agony of solitude, the lurking herd of fears and doubts, the awful abysmal dark. I tried to imagine his thoughts as he drove on and on, sensing the primal mystery -- darkness as inaccessible as God's light. In the world's market, where they sell all things, he had bought a dream, and carried it on dewy wings into the shining east, his plane swaying with the winds and curving with the clouds! My spirit seemed to stand still as I imaged him losing the celestial trail and leaping into the unmeasured void, with a million white-faced deaths blowing across his path! Because I know the dark so deeply, I had peculiar sympathy with him guiding his plane that like a lamp grimly burned in ice -- now rising above the treachery of fog and sleet, now swooping seaward, hunting an unseen course as a blind man feels his way in the dark! But at last, fluttering down the golden bar of dawn, he glimpsed the dim rim of earth, and all the glory of a mighty day shone upon him! All this the Artist within brought thrillingly to my consciousness as I felt the sonorous roar of those planes speeding over Long Island to do him honor. And what other marvelous pictures he conjured up for my delight! They come fast, they come fast -- the Fliers crossing the Pacific, fliers who seek to read the baffling secrets of mist and snow and airy heights, fliers who overtake the swiftest fires and quench them, fliers who shall charm shut clouds to pour bounty upon thirsty fields, fliers who shall bear messages weaving a chain of friendship to encircle the world -- peacebringers who shall outspeed strife and hate, and dare and dare, and yet again dare until all men walk the earth unafraid, brothers one to another!

I have other sensations which bring me warm, human contacts with the outer world. The sense of smell is most precious and important in my every day world. It brings within my reach a multitude of little joys which take the place of color and light. The atmosphere is charged with countless odors, from which I learn much about places and objects. I recognize many flowers by their graceful shapes and fragrance, and it is amazing how many kinds of sweetness there are in leaves, fruits, and seeds! Even the same plant gives forth a different scent in sunshine and in rainy weather. In spring and autumn there are qualities which I can describe only approximately, as I have not found anything like a satisfactory vocabulary of smell terms -- or touch terms either. There are tender odors like the lilac. The honeysuckle seems to lavish its fragrance upon one with something like affection. The odor of the lily when once captured is a precious satisfaction, but how shy and elusive it can be even though one stands close to the flower! There are sunshine and calm for me in the smell of a new-mown hayfield, the woods and mountains are full of quiet, eternal odors that make me want to worship. There are many beautiful odors that seem to reach out to me like friendly greetings each time I pass, and this is a sweet compensation for the void I feel when I cannot see loved objects unless I stretch my hand and touch them. Smell is like a friend who gossips with me about little every day things as well as the Spirit of Beauty. It tells me when it rains, when the grass is cut, when automobiles pass in the street, what new houses are going up in this growing town -- and when it is mealtime. It is the thousand scents I perceive which differentiate one house or a street from another, and always I prefer to be as near the country as possible.

I should like the city pretty well if it were not for my exacting touch and odor perception. But the avalanche of noises and the turmoil of New York weary me, and the heavy smells of crowded shops and sultry streets and air congested with gasoline oppress me. Give me the noiseless little noises of growing things and the morning and evening odors of my tiny garden, and I am content in a world flooded with the harmony and the brilliancy of the spirit. Imagination gives eyes and ears to those who lack a sense or two, builds a satisfying whole out of the fragmentary and often unrelated details which drift into one's consciousness out of a dark silent chaos. I had an experience recently which I should like to relate because it brought out in a most happy manner the delightful sensations and the witchery of the soul which render my life as full and liveable as that of any one with all his powers intact.

I was sitting at my typewriter the other day, waiting rather impatiently for an idea which I desperately needed to finish a chapter in my autobiography, when I received an invitation from Mr. Doubleday to come and smell the roses in his garden. "Bless my soul," I said to myself, "this welcome interruption has saved my life! It has put to flight the recalcitrant thoughts that were destroying me utterly. What better thing could I do than go out there to smell roses!"

The drive to Garden City was beautiful. Long Island is always beautiful under the touch of June. The caressing air makes one realize the uselessness of toilsome effort when all out-of-doors breathes an irresistible invitation to come and be a child again, when even the most diligent finds work irksome, when every live boy dreams of playing "hookey." I thought, "Perish the task that would keep one indoors on such a day!" They are rare enough as one grows older. Running away like the boy with the circus is our only chance of being young again.

source:http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=193&SubTopicID=17&DocumentID=1190

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"The Dreams That Come True"(1) - by Helen Keller

2010年10月04日 00時00分19秒 | 英語

Dreams That Come True, as published in Personality, (December, 1927)

Transcription

"The Dreams That Come True"
--When One who Can neither See nor Hear Finds Joy in a Flower Garden
by Helen Keller

I

Swedenborg says that "many arts in this world derive their laws and harmonies from Heaven."

Certainly,there is something divine in the art which some human beings possess to shape life for themselves, no matter what the outward circumstances may be. That is the power of the Celestial Artist, the Will, to find life worth living, despite the handicap imposed.

I have for many years endeavored to make this vital truth clear; and still people marvel when I tell them that I am happy. They imagine that my limitations weigh heavily upon my spirit, and chain me to the rock of despair. Yet, it seems to me, happiness has very little to do with the senses. If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.

"I can understand," I hear some one interrupting me, "that you enjoy flowers and sunshine and that sort of thing; but when you sit by yourself in that little study on the top of the house all day, aren't you dreadfully bored? You can't see a bit of color from the window, or hear a sound! Don't you get tired of the -- well, the sameness of the objects you touch when you can't see the play of light and shadow upon them? Aren't the days and the hours all alike to you?"

Never! My days are all different, and no hour is quite like another.

Through my sense of touch I am keenly alive to all changes and movements of the atmosphere, and I am sure the days vary for me as much as they do for my friend who observes the skies -- often not caring about their beauty, but only to see if it is going to rain. There are days when the suns pours into my study, and I feel all of life's joys crowded into each beam. There are rainy days when a sort of shade clings about me and lays a cool hand upon my face, and the smell of the moist earth and damp objects lingers everywhere. There are days really "dark" for me when I feel the ten windows in the study shudder and sob with the winter blast. Then glad days that feel like light come when the sonorous west wind booms its message of spring into my hand as I lay it against the pane, and I am eager to be away in the woods-

source:http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=193&SubTopicID=17&DocumentID=1190

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"My Animal Friends"(draft) - by Helen Keller

2010年10月02日 08時34分27秒 | 英語

My Animal Friends, as published in the Zoological Society Bulletin, (September 1923, draft)

Transcription

Zoological Society Bulletin
September 1923
Volume XXVI
No. 5

"My Animal Friends" by Helen Keller

Part II: My Acquaintance with Zoologica1 Park Animals

"On my first visit to Boston, soon after my eighth birthday, I was taken to a menagerie, and formally introduced to an elephant, a cageful of monkeys and three baby lions. The monkeys were very mischievous. They pulled my hair and snatched at the flowers in my hat. Their queer, cold hands made me shiver, and I did not like their teasing antics a bit.

"The elephant was an enormous fellow with a breath like the blast from furnace. He helped himself to a bag of peanuts I held in my hand, and swallowed them, bag and all. When I tried to feel his trunk, he objected and lifted it out of reach. His keeper assisted me to climb up on Jumbo's back, where I sat frightened, but proud of the adventure. I felt like a little boat afloat upon a great sea, and secretly I was glad to climb back to the firm earth again.

"The young lions were docile and playful. They rolled over on their backs and purred like kittens. I could not believe they would grow up into ferocious beasts of prey. But when I saw two of them years later, I was convinced. As I stood by their cage, I realized that my innocent, pretty, good-natured lion kittens had undergone a great change, not only in their physical appearance, but also in mind and disposition. The lioness was still slender, and more quiet than the male, which had developed into a powerful, aggressive creature with an imposing mane. His baby purr was now a roar that terrified me. I was not permitted to touch him even through the bars.

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"I have, however, touched two grown lions since then, also Trilby, the famous lioness in the Washington Zoological Park. She was as gentle and as beautiful as a great Dane. She pressed her body against me affectionately and licked my hand. One lion, a splendid fellow, held out a huge paw to me in a friendly manner, let me feel his great head and even growled amiably for my entertainment. His keeper made him walk up and down the cage so that I might feel his stride."

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