01 A Ball to Roll Around (2) (散文54篇详解Day 2)

昨天发了详解1后，阅读情况比我想象的好，甚至还有人在后台给我反馈和建议，非常受鼓舞。

给点学习建议：

建议大家在看完详解后可以做个小小的总结，哪怕是一个词、一个句型都可以，分享在下面。这样会让你自己有个思考、总结的过程，学习效果会好的多。

如果大家更有心，更有时间，我还有个奢求。那就是大家可以拿笔拿本，做做笔记。石头哥保证周一到周五定时更新。大家可以长期关注学习，提高自己的英语。大家加油，期待与你共同成长！

大家加油，期待与你共同成长！

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先看原文：

I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.

第一句：I believe in life now.

注意用的是“believe in”，而不是“believe”，believe in sth 表示“相信……有价值”，而believe sth 表示“相信……为真”。他这里表达的意思是“相信生命的价值”，所以用believe in。

译文：现在我相信生活。

第二句：I am not so sure / that I would have believed in it so deeply, / otherwise.

一个句型：I am not so sure + that + 句子，我不能肯定某事

otherwise: 要不然、否则，相当于“if not”，跟前面的It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind中的“I hadn't been blind”一样，只是省略成了“if not”，即otherwise。

译文：但我不能肯定如果自己是明眼人，会不会像现在这样深深地相信生活。

第三句：I don't mean / that I would prefer to go without my eyes.

I don't mean + that + 句子，我并不是说某事。

prefer to do sth 宁愿做某事，更愿意做某事，相当于“want to do sth more”

go without my eyes指“变成盲人”。

译文：这并不意味着我宁愿成为盲人。

语法小贴士

第四句：I simply mean / that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.

又一个“that + 句子”的结构，看到了吗？跟前面一样。

what I had left, 是指除了眼睛外留下的脑、嘴、耳朵等其他器官。

译文：而只是意味着失去视力使我更加珍惜自己其他的能力了。

学习的速度与激情

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我们最后再来赏析一下文章：

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn't been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.

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最后小小的思考一下，你今天学到了什么？那怕是一个单词、一个句型、一个语法点，甚至是你阅读这篇文章受到的一点点感悟和启发，请分享在下方吧！

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