As Commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and as a blind man, it is Matthew Sapolin's mission to fulfill the spirit and the letter of the ADA by working to ensure that New Yorkers with disabilities can live, work and learn here with relative ease.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

It's an invention of a barbarous age which a blind and ignorant population will accept only to its own vexation, hindrance, and constraint.

它是只有蛮荒时代愚昧无知的人们才会接受,以自寻烦恼，阻碍，和限制的。

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And it is a very scary tyke actually that transform yourself from somebody who would be blind to somebody who would be sighted.

实际上,如果你从一个失明的人,变成一个视正常的人也是件十分可怕的事情。

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It's the sort of thing you wonder about when you ask yourself, "If somebody was born blind, could he possibly know what it's like to see color?"

有时你会就一些问题问自己,如果某人天生失明,他是否可能知道看见颜色是什么感觉

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And then, they understand what it is like to be blind.

而且，他们明白失明意味着什么。

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