For much of the past century, blind children attended residential institutions where they learned to read by touching the words.

在过去的一个世纪中，盲童们就读于寄宿式学校并在那学习依靠手触阅读。

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But buying too much of certain things like clothes and gadgets etc. can blind you to the fact that there's no way that they're making you truly happy.

但购买太多像衣服、器械这样的实物往往使你无法认清一个事实，那就是他们没法让你真正的幸福。

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In moving from written to spoken language, the greatest consequences for blind people may not be cognitive but cultural - a loss much harder to avoid.

从书面语言到口语的转变，盲人获得的最大益处是文化上的而非感知上的—这是一种更难避免的损失。

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You should know that people have to live for 43 years pretty much one way as a blind person.

大家可以想象,不得不带着一只失明的眼睛生活了43年的人,几乎就是个盲人。

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He was blind to how much weight his words and actions carried.

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Besides the enjoyment and enhanced personal freedom that comes from being able to read and write, blind persons who use braille are much more likely to be employed.

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Arlene went blind as an adult, and what she showed me was how much of the block she still sees, four decades after becoming blind.

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