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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/thecity/15blin.html?_r=1;
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原文:
The Taste of Flowers
花之品尝
By TONI GREAVES Published: June 15, 2008
MY favorite French bakery, Madeleine Patisserie, is a quiet oasis on West 23rd Street near Seventh Avenue. Stopping in for Earl Grey tea with soy milk and the best raspberry Parisian macaroons in or out of Paris, I sit by the window, and watch the comings and goings on the street.
近第七大道,坐落于西23号街的Madeleine Patisserie是我最喜欢的法国式面包房,绝对可以为其中的豆奶拌伯爵茶以及山莓杏仁甜饼而逗留,无论在巴黎内外都是最棒的,靠窗而作,可以看看街道上的来来往往。
Directly in my line of sight is Visions, an institution that runs classes for the blind and visually impaired. It was outside that building that I met Zoraida Morrison, who was making her way to her weekly ceramics class.
一个帮助盲人和弱视的机构进入我的视野,在这幢建筑的外面我遇见了Zoraida Morrison,这是她每周上陶艺课的必经之路。

Ms. Morrison caresses the clay with sensitivity and tenderness, mapping its terrain with an attention to detail that makes her a star student. Her latest work could have been set in Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” its shell-like form the perfect dwelling for any goddess of love. Ms. Morrison, a native Puerto Rican, is blind. She describes glaucoma as “the great thief of eyesight.” It stole hers when she was 26. Today, at age 45, she lives a busy New York life, experiencing the world through other senses.
Morrison敏感而亲切的嗅吻着粘土,细节刻画让其成为这里的明星学生,她最近的工作已经确定设在波提切利的“维纳斯的诞生” ,它的外形被表现为完美的女神之爱,Morrison是土生土长的波多黎各人,一个盲人,她将其视力表述为“伟大的小偷视力”,而今,45岁的她在纽约忙碌的生活,并用其其他的感官体验着这个世界。

For example, she taught her (sighted) fiancé, a nurse named David, how to taste flowers. She describes the heightened sensitivity of the lips and tongue and how they make possible a unique sensation, one very different from simply feeling with the fingertips. Tasting flowers is one of her favorite activities, and she thinks more people should try it.
例如:她教她的护士未婚夫(短视),如何去品尝花朵,她用她更为敏感的舌头和嘴唇,这不同于只用指尖去触摸,品尝花朵是她最喜欢的行为之一,她认为更多的人应该去尝试。


Although Ms. Morrison has no full-time job and supports herself with disability benefits, she volunteers once a week at the American Foundation for the Blind, answering phone calls from people with questions regarding loss of sight. She says that she got over her loss of sight long ago, and she likes to help people and their families who are newly going through the experience.
虽然Morrison没有全职工作,并由伤残补助金支持她,她每周一次在美国盲人基金会做志愿者,接听电话回答有关失明的问题。她说,很久以前她失去了她的视线,她喜欢以帮助人们以及他们的家庭带来新的体验。

“It’s a great big world out there with tons of adventures and interesting people to meet,” she says. “I don’t want to lose out on that.”
“这是一个伟大的世界,充满了冒险和有很多有趣的人去认识”她说, “我不想失去了这一切。 ”
TONI是一个非常敏感的摄影师,作为PDN30新锐女摄影师,她用其不同一般的触感观察着这个世界。