Haryana State Board HBSE 8th Class English Solutions Honeydew Chapter 7 A Visit to Cambridge Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.
Haryana Board HBSE 8th Class English Solutions Honeydew Chapter 7 A Visit to Cambridge
HBSE 8th Class English A Visit to Cambridge Textbook Questions and Answers
Comprehension Check – I
A Visit To Cambridge Solution HBSE 8th Class
Which is the right item:
ठीक उत्तर चिह्नित करो:
1. ‘Cambridge was my metaphor for England’. To the writer,
(i) Cambridge was a reputed university in England.
(ii) England was famous for Cambridge.
(iii) Cambridge was the real England.
“कैम्ब्रिज मेरे लिए इंग्लैंड का रूपक था।” लेखक के लिए
(क) कैम्ब्रिज, इंग्लैंड में एक प्रसिद्ध विश्वविद्यालय था।
(ख) इंग्लैंड, कैम्ब्रिज के लिए प्रसिद्ध था।
(ग) कैम्ब्रिज ही वास्तविक इंग्लैंड था।
Answer:
(iii) Cambridge was the real England. house
2. The writer phoned Stephen Hawking’s
(i) from the nearest phone booth.
(ii) from outside a phone booth.
(iii) from inside a phone booth.
लेखक ने स्टीफन के घर फोन किया
(क) निकटतम फोन कक्षिका से
(ख) एक फोन कक्षिका के बाहर से
(ग) एक फोन कक्षिका के भीतर से।
Answer:
(iii) from inside a phone booth.
3. Every time he spoke to the scientist, the writer felt guilty because
(i) he wasn’t sure what he wanted to ask.
(ii) he forced the scientist to use his voice synthesiser.
(iii) he was face to face with a legend.
हर समय जब वह वज्ञानिक से बात करता था, लेखक स्वयं को दोषी मानता था क्योंकि
(क) वह इसमें विश्वस्त नहीं था कि वह क्या पूछे।
(ख) उसने वैज्ञानिक को उसका स्वर-संश्लेषक का प्रयोग करने के लिए विवश करता था।
(ग) वह एक चर्चित व्यक्तित्व के सामने था।
Answer:
(ii) he forced the scientist to use his voice synthesiser.
4. “I felt a huge relief …. in the possibilities of my body.” In the given context, the italicised words refer to:
(i) shifting in the wheelchair, turning the wrist.
(ii) standing up, walking.
(iii) speaking, writing.
Answer:
(i) Shifting in the wheelchair turning the wrist.
A Visit To Cambridge HBSE 8th Class
Working with The Text
I. Answer the following questions:
निम्नलिखित प्रश्नों के उत्तर दीजिए:
A Visit To Cambridge Summary HBSE 8th Class Question 1.
(i) Did the prospect of meeting Stephen Hawking make the writer nervous? If so, why? ..
क्या स्टीफन हॉकिंग से मिलने की आशा ने लेखक को नर्वस कर दिया? यदि हाँ, तो कैसे?
Answer:
Yes, but at the same time he was surprised and shocked, because he had completely forgotton the fact that such a worthy author of “A Brief History of Time” could have lived there. He was completely disabled. Although he had become the successor to Issac Newton at the University of Cambridge.
(ii) Did he at the same time feel very excited? If so, why?
क्या वह साथ ही बहुत उत्साहित हो गया? यदि हाँ, तो स्यों?
Answer:
Yes, he felt excited to hear of his presence in England at that time because he felt so much eager to see him that he handled the phone cord carelessly and hurriedly at the phone booth. He wanted to see him as soon as possible. Even ten minutes would do. He suddenly felt weak all over, being himself disabled.
A Visit To Cambridge Summary In Hindi HBSE 8th Class Question 2.
Guess the first question put to the scientist by the writer.
अनुमान लगाइए कि लेखक ने कौन सा पहला प्रश्न वैज्ञानिक (स्टीफन हाकिंग) के समक्ष रखा होगा?
Answer:
The author might have asked him to be brave, take courage and face the hurdles of life.
Visit To Cambridge HBSE 8th Class Question 3.
Stephen Hawking said: “I’ve had no choice”. Does the writer think there was choice? What was it?
स्टीफन हॉकिंस कहता है– “मेरे पास इसके अतिरिक्त कोई और विकल्प भी तो नहीं है।” क्या लेखक समझता है कि कोई और विकल्प है? यदि है तो क्या है?
Answer:
Yes, the writer feels there is a choice for Stephen Hawking and it is to live creatively with the fact of his broken (disabled) body. He should have kept himself busy in doing creative work so that he might feel his mind preoccupied and therefore not less important in society.
Class 8 Honeydew Chapter 7 HBSE Question 4.
“I could feel his anguish” What could be the anguish?
“मैं उसकी संवेदना का अनुभव कर सकता था।” उसकी क्या संवेदना थी?
Answer:
The writer observed his painful efforts with which he was tapping at the little switch in his hand. He tried to find the words on his computer with difficulty. He had the only bit of movement which was left to him in his long pale fingers. Not only this, his eyes would shut with the feeling of tiredness which disappointed him very much. Hence the writer could feel his anguish. At the same time, Stephen Hawking’s mind was filled with thoughts that came out in such continual but very slow words and sentences that were as hard as a dead body.
Visit To Cambridge Summary HBSE 8th Class Question 5.
What endeared the scientist to the writer so that he said he was looking at one of the most beautiful men in the world?
लेखक ने वैज्ञानिक में क्या देखा जिससे उसने कहा कि विश्व के अत्यंत सुंदर व्यक्तियों में से एक को देख रहा है?
Answer:
The writer asked Stephen if he found it annoying when someone like him (the writer) came and disturbed him in his work. Stephen replied at once in positive but he smiled on one side. His face reflected on unmatchable beauty. The writer was highly impressed over his frank confession. He could not cheat the writer. Whatever he felt he boldly said.
A Visit To Cambridge Question Answer HBSE 8th Class Question 6.
Read aloud the description of ‘the beautiful man’. Which is the most beautiful sentence in the description?
‘सुंदर व्यक्ति’ का वर्णन ऊँचे स्वर में पढ़ो। वर्णन में सबसे सुंदर वाक्य कौन सा है?
Answer:
The most beautiful sentence is the answer flashed. “Yes, I do feel it annoying when some one like the writer comes and disturbs me a
in my work.” In fact when he is compelled to use his pale and long fingers in which only the least energy is left. He feels painful and troublesome at the time of discussion with his visitors when they happen visit him.
Summary Of A Visit To Cambridge HBSE 8th Class Question 7.
(i) If ‘the lantern’ is the man, what would its ‘walls’ be?
यदि ‘लालटेन’ एक व्यक्ति हो तो इसकी ‘दीवारें’ क्या होंगी?
Answer:
If the lantern is man, its walls are like ; a case made of shadows.
(ii) What is housed within the thin walls?
इन पतली दीवारों में क्या बंद रखा गया है?
Answer:
Within the thin walls, housed light (i.e. incandescence). Our body is not so important. It is irrelevant, i.e. immaterial.
(iii) What general conclusion does the writer draw from the comparison?
लेखक ने तुलना में क्या सामान्य निष्कर्ष निकाला?
Answer:
The writer draws a general conclusion that inside our body is the eternal soul. Everything else is an accessory i.e. extra.
Question 8.
What is the scientist’s message for the disabled?
वैज्ञानिक का अपंगों के लिए क्या संदेश क्या है?
Answer:
The scientist Stephen Hawking’s message for the disabled is that they should take care of only those parts of the body very attentively which God has gifted them free from defects. They should concentrate on what they are good at. They should make the best use of them and Thank God.
Question 9.
What does the writer, refer to the guitar incident? Which idea does it support?
गिटार की घटना की ओर लेखक क्या संकेत करता है? यह किस बात का समर्थन करता है?
Answer:
Stephen Hawking refers to the guitar incident by saying that he had spent many years trying to play Spanish guitar. However its size was larger than himself. So, suddenly on one night he had unstringed it. The idea which supported this action of his was that perhaps its practice created great difficulty for his weak and long fingers a lot while playing on the guitar. It disturbed his peace of mind.
Question 10.
The writer expresses his great gratitude to Stephen Hawking. What is the gratitude for?
लेखक स्टीफन हाकिंग के प्रति महान,आभार प्रकट करता है। यह आभार किसलिए है?
Answer:
The writer expressed his great gratitude to Stephen Hawkiiig because the scientist being handicapped even in maiiy respects. It gave him time inspite of these hurdles. He responded to his question^ with the help of his voice synthesiser. The writer felt humiliated and obliged highly for this kind favour. He had occasionally annoyed gawking but instead of ten minutes, the writer was able to be in company with him for full half an-hour. Hawking had to use his we’ak and little fingers in which was left only little energy. This was a great gratitude hrStephen for allowing the writer to spend his time for talk.
Question 11.
Complete the following sentences using their appropriate parts from both boxes below.
निम्नलिखित वाक्यों को बॉक्स
(A) और बॉक्स
(B) में दिए गए शब्दों से भरो:
(i) There was his assistant on the line _______ .
(ii) You get fed up with people asking you to be brave, _______ .
(iii) There he was, _______ .
(iv) You look at his eyes which can speak _______ .
(v) It doesn’t do much good to know _______ .
| A | B |
| * tapping at a little switch in his hand, | * trying to find the words on his computer. |
| * and I told him | * I had come in a wheelchair from India. |
| * that there are people | * on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque. |
| * as if you have a courage account | * smiling with admiration to see you breathing still. |
| * and they are saying something huge and urgent | * it is hard to tell what. |
Answer:
(i) There was his assistant on the line and I told him that I had come in a wheelchair from India.
(ii) You get fed up with pedple asking you to be brave, as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque.
(iii) There he was, tapping at the little switch in his hand, trying to find the words on his computer.
(iv) You look at his eyes which can speak still and they are saying something huge and urgent, it is hard to tell what.
(v) It doesn’t do much good to know that there are people, smiling with admiration to see you breathing still.
Working With Language
1. Fill in blanks in the sentences below using the appropriate forms of words given in the box.
निम्नलिखित वाक्यों में रिक्त स्थान बॉक्स में दिए गए शब्दों के उपयुक्त रूपों का प्रयोग करे होए भरो:
guide, succeed, chair, travel, pale, draw, true
(i) I met a _______ from an antique land.
(ii) I need special _______ in Mathematics. I can’t count the number of times I have failed in the subject.
(iii) The guide called Stephen Hawking a worthy _______ to Issac Newton.
(iv) His other problems _______ into insignificance beside this unforeseen mishap.
(v) The meeting was _______ by theyoungest member of the board.
(vi) Some people say ‘yours _______ , when they informally refer to themselves.
(vii) wish it had been a _______ match. We would have been spared the noise of celebrations at least.
Answer:
(i) traveller
(ii) guide
(iii) successor
(iv) pale
(v) chaired
(vi) truly
(vii) drawn.
2. Look at the following words:
निम्नलिखित शब्दों को देखिए:
| Walk Stick |
→ Can you create a meaningful phrase using both these words?
क्या तुम इन दोनों शब्दों का प्रयोग करते हुए एक बना सकते हो?
→ It is simple. Adding to the Verb and use it before the noun. Put an article at the beginning. …. a walking stick
Now make six such phrases using the words given in the box:
अब ऐसे: छः वाक्यांश बनाओ जिनमें बॉक्स में दिए गए निम्नलिखित शब्दों का प्रयोग हो:
read/session
smile/face
revolve/chair
walk/to ur
dance/doll
win/chance
Answer:
1. Reading session
2. Walking tour
3. Revolving chair
4. Winning chance
5. Dancing doll
6. .Smiling face
3. Use ‘all’ or ‘both’ in the blanks. Tell your partner why you chose one or the other.
(i) He has two brothers ………………. are lawyers.
(ii) More than ten persons called ………………. of them wanted to see you.
(iii) They ………………. cheered the team.
(iv) ………………. her parents are teachers.
(v) How much have you got? Give me ………………. of it.
Answer:
(i) He has two brothers. Both are lawyers.
(ii) More than ten persons called. All of them wanted to see you.
(iii) They all cheered the team.
(iv) Both her parents are teachers.
(v) How much have you got? Give me all of it.
(‘Both’ is used for the sense of ‘two’. ‘All’ is used for more than two.)
4. Complete each sentence using the right form of the adjective given in brackets.
(i) My Mend has one of the ………………. cars on the road, (fast)
(ii) This is the ………………. story I have ever read, (interesting)
(iii) What you are doing now is ………………. than what you did yesterday. (easy)
(iv) Ramesh and his wife are both ………………. (short)
(v) He arrived ………………. as usual. Even the chief guest came ………………. than he did. (late, early)
Answer:
(i) My friend has one of the fastest cars on the road.
(ii) This is the most interesting story I have ever read.
(iii) What you are doing now is easier than what you did yesterday.
(iv) Ramesh and his wife are both short.
(v) He arrived late as usual. Even the chief guest came earlier than he did.
Speaking and Writing
1. Say the following words with correct stress. Pronounce the parts in bold loudly and clearly.
| camel | balloon |
| decent | opinion |
| fearless | enormous |
| careful | fulfil |
| father | together |
| govern | degree |
| bottle | before |
→ In a word having more than one syllable the strfessed syllable is the one that is more prominent than the other syllable (s).
→ A word has as many syllables as it has vowels.
man (one syllable)
manner (two syllables)
→ The mark (‘) indicates that the first syllable in ‘manner’ is more prominent than the other.
2. Underline stressed syllables in the following words. Consult the dictionary or ask the teacher if necessary.
| artist | mistake | accident |
| moment | compare | satisfy |
| relation | table | illegal |
| agree | backward | mountain |
Answer:
| artist | mistake | accident |
| moment | Compare | satisfy |
| relation | table | illegal |
| agree | backward | mountain |
3. Writing a notice for the School Notice Board.
Step 1
- Discuss why notices are put up on the notice board.
- What kinds of ‘notices’ have you lately seen on the board?
- How is a notice different from a letter or a descriptive paragraph?
Step 2
- Suppose you have lost or found something on the campus.
- What have you lost or found?
- You want to write a notice about it. If you have lost something, you want it restored to you in case someone has found it. If you have found something, you want to return it to its owner.
Step 3
- Write a few lines describing the object you have lost or found. Mention the purpose of the notice in clear terms. Also write your name, class, section and date.
Step 4
- Let one member of each group read aloud the notice to the entire class.
- Compare your notice with the other notices, and make changes, if necessary, with the help of the teacher.
Answer:
Notice
LOST ! LOST! LOST!
March 12, 200…..
Lost a FIREMAKER GEOMETRY BOX somewhere in the school campus yesterday. It is in green colour consisting of pens and all other geometrical items. Whosoever finds it, please return it to the undersigned.
Tanya Sachdeva
Class VIII
Section A
Roll No . 14
Or
- Imagine that you are a journalist.
- You have been asked to interview the president of the village panchayat.
- Write eight to ten questions you wish to ask.
The questions should elicit comments as well as plans regarding water and electricity, cleanliness and school education in the village. - कल्पना कीजिए कि आप एक पत्रकार हैं।
- आपको ग्राम पंचायत के अध्यक्ष का साक्षात्कार करने के लिए कहा गया है।
- आठ से दस प्रश्न लिखें जो आप पूछना चाहते हैं।
सवाल टिप्पणियों के साथ-साथ गांव में पानी और बिजली, स्वच्छता और स्कूली शिक्षा के संबंध में योजनाओं को प्राप्त करना चाहिए।
Answer:
I wish to ask following questions:
1. Only a few questions, please at first, have you served with any other local body as a president which you have not mentioned in you biodata?
2. During this long period, I think, you might have faced many social problems while dealing with the scarcity of water, electricity ceanliness and rural education?
3. Good behaviour, tectful social approach, Public popularity, sweet manners 210 meetings managed in 4 years? Wonderful achievement. Well, How much for your services, sir?
A Visit to Cambridge Passages for Comprehension
Read the passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Passage – 1
And I started, because I had quite forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, the author of A Brief History of Time, one of the biggest best-sellers ever, lived here.
Questions: .
(i) What is the name of the lesson from which this passage has been taken?
(ii) Who i’s “I” in the passage?
(iii) Why did he start?
(iv) Which book had Stephen written?
(v) Define astrophysicist.
(vi) Give opposite words for (a) smallest, (b) recalled, from the passage.
Answers:
(i) The lesson from which this passage has been taken is “A Visit to Cambridge”.
(ii) “I” has been used for the writer “Firdaus Kanga”.
(iii) He felt shocked because he had quite forgotton that how could Stephen Hawking being the most brilliant person could live there.
(iv) Stephen had written “A Brief History of Time.”
(v) An astrophysicist is a scholar of . astrophysics, a branch of physics dealing with the stars and planets.
(vi) (a) biggest (b) forgotten.
Passage – 2
And suddenly I felt weak all over. Growing up disabled, you get fed up with people asking you to be brave, as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque. The only thing that makes you stronger is seeing somebody like you, achieving something huge.
Then you know how much is possible and you reach out further than you ever thought you could.
Questions:
(i) If you, god forbid, get disabled, what would you react the people visiting and r asking you “to be brave”?
(ii) Explain “asking you to be brave cheque. ”
(iii) Give noun forms of weak, growing, disabled, brave.
(iv) Use account as a verb, adjective and as a noun.
(v) Remove too in the following sentence and rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning-You are too lazy to draw a cheque.
Answers:
(i) I do feel fed up with such people because they in fact can’t do anything for other to improve my condition. Lip sympathy v is no use to me.
(ii) When certain people encourage us’to be brave again and again, they think we have a large stock of courage which we can use. Such people show only a lip sympathy. They do not suggest concrete stops to face the odd situation nor can
they help us practically.
(iii) Weakness, growth, disability, bravery.
(iv) (a) Account (Verb)-Who will account for the mistake you have committed?
(b) Account (Adjective)-Where is your account book?
(c) Account (Noun)-Please get your account checked up by some approved chartered accountant.
(v) You are so lazy that you do not draw the cheque.
Passage – 3
Surely, I wanted to say, living creatively with the reality of his disintegrating body was a choice? But I kept quiet, because I felt guilty every time I spoke to him, forcing him to respond. There he was, tapping at the little switch in his hand, trying to find the words on his computer with the only bit of movement left to him, his long, pale fingers. Every so often, his eyes would shut in frustrated exhaustion. And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish, the mind buoyant with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff as corpses. Questions:
(i) Who is T used in the passage?
(ii) Make adjective forms of creativity, reality, respond, computer, involvement.
(iii) Why did the author feel guilty and what for?
(iv) Why did he (Stephen) tap at a little switch in his hand?
(v) How did his eyes react?
(vi) What choice did the author want to suggest Stephen to face the hurdles caused by his disability?
Answers:
(i) “I” is the author, Firdaus Kanga used in the passage.
(ii) Creative, real, responsive, computerised, involved.
(iii) The author felt guilty every time he spoke to Stephen because he compelled him to speak although he knew Stephen could not speak without his computer-voice which he had to use with a lot of trouble.
(iv) He (Stephen) was disabled. So, he pressed the button in his hand.to find words on his computer and used them for speaking through the computer voice.
(v) His eyes would shut in disappointment.
(vi) The author wanted to say “that Stephen should become creative with the reality of handicapped condition”. This was his choice, which he wanted to suggest to him.
Passage – 4
Before you, like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside, is the incandescence of a mem. The body, almost irrelevant, exists only like a case made of shadows. So that I, no believer in eternal souls, know that this is what each of us is; everything else an accessory.
Questions:
(i) Explain: “Before you a man.”
(ii) Incandescence means
(iii) Use “accessory” in your own sentence.
(iv) What each of us is?
(v) Irrelevant has ‘ir’ before it as a prefix. Give four other such words.
Answers:
(i) Stephen was infront of the author like a lamp whose thin body could show you the light movement inside shone brightly.
(ii) Incandescence means internal glow or light.
(iii) The accessory of this car is too expensive.
(iv) Each of us is the body, in its inside is the light. It exists only like a case made of shadows. The writer refers this to Stephen who is a thin bodied disabled person. We are not different from him except that he is worm or outdated due to his disability.
(v) ir-relevant, ir-responsible, ir-regular, ir-religious, ir-removable.
A Visit to Cambridge Para Wise Translation in Hindi
This is the story of a meeting between two extraordinary people, both of them ‘disabled, or ‘differently abled as we now say. Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientists of our time. He suffers from a form of paralysis that confines him to a wheelchair, and allows him to‘speak’only by punching buttons on a computer, which speaks for him in a machine-like voice. Firdaus Kanga is a writer and journalist who lives and works in Mumbai. Kanga was born with ‘brittle bones’ that tended to break easily when he was a child. Like Hawking, Kanga moves around in a wheelchair.
The two great men exchange thoughts on what it means to live life in a wheelchair, and on how the so called ‘normal people react to the disabled.
Word Meaning:
Extraordinary:not ordinary = (असाधारण), Disabled:handicapped = (अपंग), Brittle:fragile = (कुरकुरी), Confines: encircle in a limit = (सीमित कर देना) ।
यह दो असाधारण लोगों की एक मुलाकात की कहानी है, दोनों ही ‘असमर्थ’ या जैसा कि हम अब कहते हैं ‘विभिन्न रूप में समर्थ’ हैं। स्टीफन हॉकिंग हमारे समय के महानतम वैज्ञानिकों में से एक है। वह एक प्रकार के अधरंग से ग्रसित हैं जो उन्हें व्हील-चेयर तक सीमित रखता है और उन्हें केवल कम्प्यूटर पर बटन दबाकर बोलने की अनुमति देता है जो उनके लिए एक यंत्र रूपी आवाज में बोलता है। फिरदौस कंग एक लेखक और पत्रकार है जो मुंबई में रहते और कार्य करते हैं। कंग ‘कुरकुरी हड्डियों के साथ पैदा हुए थे जो कि आसानी से टूट जाया करती थीं, जब वे बालक थे। हॉकिंग की तरह, कंग भी व्हील-चेयर में इधर-उधर घूमा करते थे।
दो महान व्यक्ति विचारों का आदान-प्रदान करते हैं कि व्हील-चेयर में जीवन जीने के क्या मायने हैं और ये ‘सामान्य’ कहे जाने वाले लोग ‘अपंग’ लोगों पर किस प्रकार प्रतिक्रियाएँ देते हैं।
Word Meaning:
Metaphor: (रूपक), Strange: surprising = (आश्चर्यजनक), Altogether: completely = (पूर्ण रूप से)।
1. Cambridge was my metaphor for England, and it was strange that when I left it had become altogether something else, because I had met Stephen Hawking there.
कैम्ब्रिज मेरे लिए इंग्लैंड का रूपक था और यह आश्चर्य की बात थी कि जब मैंने इसे छोड़ा, इसका रूप पूर्ण रूप से कुछ और हो गया था क्योंकि मैं वहाँ पर स्टीफन हॉकिंग से मिला था।
2. It was on a walking tour through Cambridge that the guide mentioned Stephen Hawking, “poor man, who is quite disabled now, though he is a worthy successor to Issac Newton, whose Chair he has at the university.”
Word Meaning:
Guide: (मार्गदर्शक), Disabled: handicapped = (अपंग), Worthy:respectable = (आदरयोग्य), Mentioned: stated = (वर्णन किया), Though: even if = (यद्यपि), Successor: inheritor = (उत्तराधिकारी)।
यह कैम्ब्रिज का भ्रमण करते हुए ही था कि गाइड ने स्टीफन हॉकिंग के नाम का वर्णन किया, जो एक निर्धन व्यक्ति था और । जो अब सर्वथा अपंग हो चुका था, यद्यपि वह इसाक न्यूटन (Issac Newton) का सम्मानयोग्य उत्तराधिकारी भी था और जिसका आचार्य पद (Chair) विश्वविद्यालय में उसके पास है।
3. And I started, because I had quite forgotten that this most brilliant and completely paralysed astrophysicist, the author of A Brief History of Time, one of the biggest best-sellers ever, lived here.
Word Meaning:
Started: began = (आरंभ किया),Forgotten:missed = (भूल गया), Paralysed: handicapped = (विकलांग, अपंग), Ever: always = (सदा)।
और मैं चलता रहा क्योंकि मैं यह सर्वथा भूल गया था कि अत्यंत प्रतिभाशाली और पूर्णरूप से अपंग खगोल-भौतिक वैज्ञानिक तथा A Brief History of Time नाम की पुस्तक का, जो सबसे अधिक बिकने वाली पुस्तकों में से एक थी, लेखक भी यहाँ रहता है।
4. When the walking tour was done, I rushed to a phone booth and, almost tearing the cord so it could reach me outside, phoned Stephen Hawking’s house. There was his assistant on the line and I told him I had come in a wheelchair from India (perhaps he thought I had propelled myself all the way) to write about my travels in Britain. I had to see Professor Hawking – even ten minutes would do. “Half an hour,” he said. “From three-thirty to four.”
Word Meaning:
Rushed: ran fast = (तेज दौड़ा), Booth: temporary shelter = (अस्थायी स्थान), Assistant: helper = (सहायक), Quite: very much = (पूर्णतया), Brilliant: shining, intelligent = (विवेकशील), Astrophysicist: (नक्षत्र भौतिकी के ज्ञाता)।
जब भ्रमण हो चुका, मैं फोन बूथ की ओर दौड़ा और लगभग फोन की डोरी को खींचकर (ताकि यह मुझ तक बाहर की ओर: पहुंच सके) स्टीफन हाकिंग के घर फोन किया। उसका सहायक विद्यमान था ओर मैंने उसे बताया कि मैं व्हील चेयर पर भारत से आया हूँ (संभवतः उसने सोचा कि मैं स्वयं व्हील चेयर पर भारत से सीधा चलाकर आया था) तांकि वह अपनी यात्रा का वर्णन कर सके। मैंने प्रोफेसर हॉकिंग को देखना था। दस मिनट मिले तो भी काम चल जाएगा उसने कहा, “आधा घंटा।” “3.30 से 4 बजे तक।”
5. And suddenly I felt weak all over. Growing up disabled, you get fed up with people asking you to be brave, as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque. The only thing that makes you stronger is seeing somebody like you, achieving something huge. Then you know how much is possible and you reach out further than you ever thought you could.
Word Meaning:
Growing: (बड़ा होना), Fed up: tired = (उकता जाना), Disabled: handicapped = (अपंग), Courage: daring act = (साहस)।
और अचानक मैंने सर्वथा निर्बल पाया। यदि लोग तुम्हें वीर कहें अपंग होते हुए तुम उकता जाओगे। ऐसे जैसे तुम्हारे पास साहस का बचत खाता है जिस पर तुम इतना आलसी हो जाते हो कि. जैसे साहस बटोरने का मन न कर रही हो। केवल एक वस्तु है जो तुम्हें शक्तिशाली बना देती है। वह यह है कि किसी अपने जैसे व्यक्ति से मिलो। तुम जानते हो कि कुछ बड़ी वस्तु प्राप्त करना कितना संभव होता है और तुम अपनी आशाओं से भी आगे निकल जाओगे।
6. “I haven’t been brave,” said his disembodied computer-voice, the next afternoon. “I’ve had no choice.”
Surely, I wanted to say, living creatively with the reality of his disintegrating body was a choice? But I kept quiet, because I felt guilty every time I spoke to him, forcing him to respond.
Word Meaning:
Computer-voice: (कंप्यूटर का स्वर), Surely: certainly = (निश्चित रूप से), Forcing: compelling = (विवश करना), Reality: fact = (वास्तविकता)।
“मैं वीर तो नहीं रहा हूँ” उसकी शरीररहित कम्प्यूटर की आवाज ने अगली दोपहर के पश्चात् कहा, “कि मेरे पास कोई और उपाय नहीं था”।
निश्चय ही उसके टूटते शरीर की वास्तविकता के साथ रचनात्मक ढंग से जीते हुए मैं कहना चाहता था। परंतु मैं शांत रहा क्योंकि जब मैं उससे बोलता था अपने आपको दोषी अनुभव करता था। टिप-टिप करते हुए मैं उसे बोलने के लिए विवश कर रहा था।
7. There he was, tapping at the little switch in his hand, trying to find the words on his computer with the only bit of movement left to him, his long, pale fingers. Every so often, his eyes would shut in frustrated exhaustion. And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish, the mind buoyant with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff as corpses.
Word Meaning:
Movement: motion = (गति), Frustrated: disappointed = (विक्षिप्त), Exhaustion: tiredness = (थकावट), Opposite:against = (विपरीत), Buoyant:excited = (उत्साहवर्धक), Anguish: pain = (पीड़ा), Frozen phrases: (स्थिर वाक्यांश, कठोर शब्द समूह), Stiff: hard = (कठोर), Corpses: dead body = (मृतक शरीर)।
वहाँ पर अपने हाथ में छोटे बटन लिए टिप-टिप करते हुए तथा अपने कम्प्यूटर पर शब्द ढूँढने का प्रयास करते हुए थोड़ी-थोड़ी शक्ति के साथ जो शेष उसके पास रह गई थी, अपनी लंबी तथा पीली उंगलियों के साथ करता था। प्रत्येक बार उसकी आँखें निराशापूर्ण थकावट के कारण बंद हो जाती थीं और उसके सम्मुख बैठकर मैं उसकी पीड़ा का अनुभव कर सकता था। उसका मन उन विचारों से उत्तेजित हो जाता था जो जमे हुए वाक्यांशों तथा वाक्यों में आते थे क्योंकि ये शव की भाँति कठोर थे।
8. “A lot of people seem to think that disabled people are chronically unhappy,” I said, “I know that’s not true myself. Are you often laughing inside?”
About three minutes later, he responded, “I find it amusing when people patronise me.”
“And do you find it annoying when someone like me comes and disturbs you in your work?”
Word Meaning:
Disabled: handicapped = (अपंग),Chronically unhappy: very sad = (बहुत उदास), Laughing: smiling = (हँसते हुए), Responded: answered = (उत्तर दिया), Disturbs: (हस्तक्षेप करता है)।
“बहुत से लोग यह सोचते हुए प्रतीत होते हैं कि अपंग लोग बहुत ही उदास रहते हैं”। मैंने कहा। “मैं जानता हूँ कि यह मेरे साथ सत्य नहीं है। क्या तुम बहुधा भीतर से हंसते रहते हो?
लगभग तीन मिनट के पश्चात् उसने उत्तर दिया, “मुझे बहुत हंसी आती है जब लोग मेरा उत्साह बढ़ाते हैं।” “और क्या तुम्हें ज्ञात है कि जब कोई जैसे मैं आकर तुम्हें तुम्हारे कार्य में हस्तक्षेप करता है तो चिढ़ होती है?”
9. The answer flashed. “Yes.” Then he smiled his one-way smile and I knew, without being sentimental or silly, that I was looking at one of the most beautiful men in the world.
Word Meaning:
Flashed: shone = (चमका), Smiled: (मुस्कराया), One-way smile: (एक दिशा से मुस्कराना), Sentimental: (भावुक)।
उत्तर तत्काल मिला। “हाँ।” तब वह एकतरफा मुस्कुराया और मैं जान गया, मैं भावुक नहीं हुआ और न ही मूर्ख प्रतीत हुआ कि मैं विश्व के अत्यंत सुन्दर पुरुषों में से एक के साथ बात कर रहा हूँ।
10. A first glimpse of him is shocking, because he is like a still photograph – as if all those pictures of him in magazines and newspapers have turned three-dimensional.
Then you see the head twisted sideways into a slump, the torso shrunk inside the pale blue shirt, the wasted legs; you look at his eyes which can speak, still, and they are saying something huge and urgent-it is hard to tell what. But you are shaken because you have seen something you never thought could be seen.
Word Meaning:
Glimpse: (झलकी), Shocking: (भयावह), Still: even now = (अब भी), Threedimensional: (त्रिदिशीय), Twisted= (मुड़ी), Torso: (धड़-प्रतिमा), Huge: big = (बड़ा), Urgent: important = (महत्त्वपूर्ण), Never: (कभी नहीं)।
उसकी पहली झलक भयावह है, क्योंकि वह एक फोटोग्राफ की भाँति है। ऐसे जैसे उसके वे सब चित्र जो पत्रिकाओं तथा समाचार पत्रों में थे, त्रिविमीय हो गए हों।
तब उसका सिर एक ओर मुड़कर एक ढलान बन गई हो। मूर्ति जैसा धड़ सिकुड़कर भद्दी नीली कमीज और सिकुड़ी टांगों में धंस गया। यदि तुम उसकी आँखों में देखो तो वे अब भी बोल सकती थीं और वह कोई बड़ी तथा आवश्यक बात कह रही हैं-यह नहीं कह सकते कि क्या। परंतु तुम हिल जाओगे क्योंकि तुमने वह वस्तु देखी हैं जो तुम कभी नहीं देखने की सोच सकते थे।
11. Before you, like a lantern whose walls are worn so thin you glimpse only the light inside, is the incandescence of a man. The body, almost irrelevant, exists only like a case made of shadows. So that I, no believer in eternal souls, know that this is what each of us is; everything else an accessory.
Word Meaning:
Incandescence: inner glow or light = (आंतरिक प्रकाश), Exists: present = (विद्यमान), Believer: (विश्वास करने वाला), Eternal souls: (अनंत आत्मा), Accessory: (मशीन ठीक रखने के लिए प्रयुक्त होने वाले अतिरिक्त यंत्र अथवा साज-सामग्री)।
अपने सामने लैम्प की भांति जिसकी दीवारें घिस जाएँ और इतनी पतली हो जाएँ कि तुम्हें केवल प्रकाश दिखाई दे, मनुष्य का प्रकाशित शरीर लगभग संबंध रहित, केवल छाया की बनी मूर्ति विद्यमान हो। ताकि मैं जो अनन्त आत्मा में विश्वास नहीं रखता, यह जान जाऊँ कि यही है जो हम प्रत्येक में से एक है। प्रत्येक अन्य वस्तु एक अनावश्यक वस्तु है और अतिरिक्त भी है।
12. “What do you think is the best thing about being disabled?” I had asked him earlier. “I don’t think there is anything good about being disabled.” “I think,” I said, “you do discover how much kindness there is in the world.”
“Yes,” he said; it was a disadvantage of his voice synthesiser that it could convey no inflection, no shades or tone. And I could not tell how enthusiastically he agreed with me.
Word Meaning: Earlier: (पहले),Disadvantage: loss, harm, demerits = (दोष, हानि), Convey: send = (भेजना), Tone: (ध्वनि), Discover: (खोज करना), Synthesiser:connects = (वह जो समन्वय करता है), Shades: shadow = (छाया), Demerits: loss, disadvantage = (दोष), Agreed with: (सहमत होना)।
“तुम्हारे विचार में विकलांग बनने में कौन सी बढ़िया वस्तु है।” मैंने पूर्व में उससे पूछा था। “मैं नहीं समझता कि कोई अच्छी बात विकलांग बनने में है।” “मैं सोचता हूँ,” मैंने कहा, “तुम अवश्य जान लोगे कि विश्व में कितनी दया है”।
“हाँ,” उसने कहा। यहाँ उसकी ध्वनि के उतार-चढ़ाव का संकलन करना हानि थी क्योंकि यह आवाज ऊपर-नीचे नहीं हो सकती थी। कोई धीमी आवाज अथवा लौ उत्पन्न नहीं हो सकती थी और मैं नहीं बता सकता कितने उत्साह-युक्त मुद्रा में वह मुझसे सहमत हो गया।
13. Every time I shifted in my chair or turned my wrist to watch the time – I wanted to make every one of our thirty minutes count – I felt a huge relief and exhilaration in the possibilities of my body. How little it mattered then that I would never walk, or even stand.
I told him how he had been an inspiration beyond cliche for me, and, surely, for others – did that thought help him?
Word Meaning:
Shifted: change site = (जगह बदलना),Wrist: (कलाई), Relief:rest = (विश्राम), Exhilaration:joy = (आनंद), Possibilities: hopes = (संभावनाएँ), Mattered: (अंतर पड़ना), Inspiration: encouragement = (उत्साह), Beyond: on the other side = (परे), Cliche: out dated, out of use = (प्रयोग न करने लायक)।
प्रत्येक समय जब मैं अपनी कुर्सी बदलता था अथवा अपनी कलाई की घड़ी को समय देखने के लिए एसे मोड़ता था, मैं चाहता था कि मैं अपने तीस मिनट पूरा करने के लिए गिनता रहूँ। जब मैंने अपने शरीर की संभावनाएँ देखीं। मुझे बहुत आराम तथा आनन्द प्राप्त हुआ कितना थोड़ा इसमें अन्तर पड़ता था। जब मैंने अनुभव किया कि मैं तो चलूँगा और न ही खड़ा हो पाऊँगा।
मैंने उसे कहा कि वह मेरे लिए अत्यंत उत्साहवर्धक सिद्ध हुआ था और निचित रूप में, दूसरों के लिए इस विचार ने मेरी बहुत सहायता की।
14. “No,” he said; and I thought how foolish I was to ask. When your body is a claustrophobic room and the walls are growing narrower day by day, it doesn’t do much good to know that there are people outside smiling with admiration to see you breathing still.
Word Meaning:
Claustrophobic: very small and suffocating (दम घुटने वाला),Narrower: (संकुचित), Good: advantage (लाभ), Smiling: (मुस्कराना), Admiration: praise = (प्रशंसा करना), Breathing: (सांस लेना)।
“नहीं,” उसने कहा और मैंने सोचा कि मैंने यह पूछकर कितनी मूर्खता की। जब हमारा शरीर ही एक छोटा तथा दम घुटने वाला कमरा है और इसकी दीवारें दिन-प्रतिदिन संकुचित होती जा रही हैं इससे यह जानना अधिक लाभकारी नहीं कि बाहर भी कुछ लोग हैं जो तुम्हें साँस लेते हुए देखकर मुस्कुराते हुए प्रशंसा कर रहे हैं।
15. “Is there any advice you can give disabled people, something that might help make life better?”
“They should concentrate on what they are good at; I think things like the disabled Olympics are a waste of time.”
“I know what you mean.” I remembered the years I’d spent trying to play a Spanish guitar considerably larger than I was; and how gleefully I had unstringed it one night.
Word Meaning:
Advice: instruction = (HET), Disabled:handicapped = (3741), Concentrate: to think of one thought only = (ध्यान केन्द्रित करना), Good at: specialist at = (विशेषज्ञ), Guitar: a musical Indian instrument = (भारतीय वाद्य यंत्र), Considerably: sufficiently = (पर्याप्त मात्रा में), Gleefully: joyfully = (आनन्दित होकर), Unstringed: without any condition = (बिना किसी शर्त के)।
“क्या कोई संदेश है जो तुम विकलांगों को दे सकते हो, कुछ ऐसी वस्तु जो जीवन को अधिक अच्छा बनाने में सहायक होगी?”
“उन्हें अपना ध्यान केवल उस अंग पर केंद्रित करना चाहिए, जो अच्छा है; मेरे विचार में विकलांगों के ओलम्पिक तो समय की बर्बादी है।”
“मैं जानता हूँ कि तुम्हारा अभिप्राय क्या है।” मुझे वे वर्ष याद हैं जब मैंने वह स्पेनिश गिटार खेली थी जो मुझसे भी बड़ी थी और कितनी प्रसन्नता से मैंने एक रात को इसकी तारें हटा दी थीं।
16. The half-hour was up. “I think I’ve annoyed you enough,” I said, grinning. “Thank you for…”
“Stay.” I waited. “Have some tea. I can show you the garden.”
Word Meaning:
Annoyed: angry = (नाराज होना), Enough: sufficient = (पर्याप्त), Grinning: laugh with open stet, showing teeth = (ata facich X471)||
आधा घंटा समाप्त हो गया था। “मेरे विचार में मैंने तुम्हें पर्याप्त नाराज कर दिया है।” मैंने दाँत निकाल कर हँसते हुए कहा। इसके लिए धन्यवाद।
“ठहरो।” मैंने प्रतीक्षा की। “कुछ चाय ले लो। मैं तुम्हें उद्यान दिखाऊँगा।”
17. The garden was as big as a park, but Stephen Hawking covered every inch, rumbling along in his motorised wheelchair while I dodged to keep out of the way. We couldn’t talk very much; the sun made him silent, the letters on his screen disappearing in the glare.
Word Meaning: Covered: capped = (ढकना), Rambling along: jumping with long steps = (कूदना), Wheel-chair: a chair moving on wheels used by the handicapped = (अपंग द्वारा प्रयोग की जाने वाली पहिया गाड़ी), Dodged: prevented = (रोका), Screen: curtain = (पर्दा)।
उद्यान इतना बड़ा था जितना कि एक पार्क। परंतु स्टीफन हाकिंग ने प्रत्येक इंच ढक रखा था, अपनी मोटर से चलने वाली पहिया कुर्सी के पास-पास गड़गड़ाहट का शब्द करते हुए जब मैं मार्ग से हटने के लिए रुका। तब हम बहुत अधिक बातचीत नहीं कर सके। सूर्य ने उसे मौन कर दिया क्योंकि पर्दे पर लगे शब्द प्रकाश में लुप्त हो रहे थे।
18. An hour later, we were ready to leave. I didn’t know what to do. I could not kiss him or cry. I touched his shoulder and wheeled out into the summer evening. I looked back; and I knew he was waving, though he wasn’t. Watching him, an embodiment of my bravest self, the one I was moving iowards, the one I had believed in for so many years, alone, I knew that my journey was over. For
now.
Word Meaning:
Touched: contacted = (स्पर्श), Wheeled: (पहियों वाला), Waving: (लहराना, हिलाना), Watching: looking deeply at = (देखना), Embodiment: symbol = (मूर्तरूप), Bravest self: a men of courage = (अत्यंत साहसी व्यक्ति)।
एक घंटे के पश्चात् हम जाने के लिए तैयार हो गए थे। मैं नहीं जानता था कि क्या करूँ। मैं उसे चूम नहीं सका। और न ही चीख सका। मैंने उसका कंधा छुआ और पहिए के द्वारा गर्मी की शाम को बाहर निकल गया। मैंने पीछे देखा और मैं जान रहा था कि वह हाथ हिला रहा है अर्थात् विदाई का संकेत कर रहा है, यद्यपि वह नहीं हिला रहा था। मैं उसे देख रहा था वह मेरी वीरतापूर्ण आत्मा का मूर्त रूप था। वह जिसकी ओर मैं जा रहा था। वह जिस पर मैं इतने वर्षों से विश्वास करता था, केवल मैं अकेला। मैं ‘ जान गया कि मेरी यात्रा समाप्त हो चुकी है। बस, अब तक इतना ही।
A Visit to Cambridge Summary in English
The author plans a trip to Cambridge. He feels it highly pleasing. Here, he sees Mr. Stephen Hawking. He made a walking tour through Cambridge to see him. Stephen was also a disabled professor although he was a successor to Issac Newton at the Cambridge University. He wrote the famous: “A Brief History of Time”. The author met Henry VII and Elizabeth. I also went there. He wished to see Stephen. He reached there on seeing him. He was shocked to see him using a computer-voice for speaking, a wheel-chair to sit on and long fingers, tapping the key-board with great difficulty. Stephen faced the situation with great difficulty yet bravely. His fingers had a little energy left for movement to him. His eyes would shut in disappointment and he would felt tired. He suffered a great anguish. His mind was full of thoughts on, his body. He said he felt amused when people encouraged him. As for people visit to him, he felt disturbing. His appearance shocked the author as he was like a motionless photograph. He twisted his head side ways and trunk inside the shirt. His legs didn’t work at all. His eyes appeared moving list lessly.
The author observed liveliness in his mind. The thin body existed like a case made of shadows. He felt there was nothing good about being disabled but the author said that we can at least know much kindness left in the world. Stephen agreed through his voice synthesiser. Author compared his own condition with that of Stephen. He thanked God he was a little better although he used wheel-chair. He was contented to think about the possibilities of his own body. He realised that he also could not walk. Stephen had been an inspiration to him. It was unnecessary to see people smiling at Stephen with praise that he was still breathing.
On asking for any advise to the author disabled people, Stephen said, “Concentrate on what you are good at.” He said he had once unstringed guitar although he enjoyed it.
The author now felt guilty of disturbing Stephen with many questions and troubling with his disabled and “computer voiced” body. So, he begged him permission to leave him. He should the author his garden while going himself on wheel-chair. The author could neither kiss his friend. He only touched his shoulder and left him on his wheel-chair.
A Visit to Cambridge Summary in Hindi
लेखक कैम्ब्रिज जाने की योजना बनाता है। इस भ्रमण को वह बहुत आनन्ददायक तथा ज्ञानवर्धक बताता है। यहाँ वह स्टीफन हाकिंग से मिलता है।
वह उसके पास कैम्ब्रिज नगर में पहिए वाली गाड़ी पर चढ़कर मिलने के लिए गया। स्टीफन विकलांग था यद्यपि वह कैम्ब्रिज विश्वविद्यालय में इसॉक न्यूटन का उत्तराधिकारी था। उसने एक प्रसिद्ध पुस्तक लिखी जिसका नाम “A Brief History of Time” था। वहाँ लेखक हेनरी VII तथा एलिजाबेथ I से भी मिला। वह स्टीफन हाकिंग से मिलना चाहता था। जब वह वहाँ पहुँचा तो उसकी दयनीय दशा देखकर उसके मन को बहुत धक्का लगा कि वह बोलने के लिए कम्प्यूटर मशीन का प्रयोग कर रहा था। वह व्हील-चेयर पर बैठा था क्योंकि उसकी टाँगें भी कार्य नहीं कर रही थीं। वह अपनी लम्बी तथा दुर्बल उंगलियों से शब्द पटल पर बहुत कठिनाई से टिप-टिप कर धीरे-धीरे शब्द ढूँढता था। वह स्थिति का सामना बहुत वीरता तथा साहस से कर रहा था। उसकी उँगलियों की गति बहुत धीमी थी। उसकी आँखें निराशा की मुद्रा में बन्द हो जाती थीं। उसका मन विचारों से भरा हुआ था। वह बहुत अधिक पीड़ा का अनुभव करता था। जब लोग उसे प्रोत्साहन देने आते थे, वह मन ही मन में मुस्करा देता था। जहाँ तक लोगों द्वारा उसे मिलने हेतु आने की बात है, वह हस्तक्षेप समझता था।
उसका पूर्ण व्यक्तित्व देखकर लेखक को आघात पहुँचा क्योंकि वह स्वयं एक गतिहीन फोटोचित्र लगता था। उसकी गर्दन उसकी कमीज में छुपी रहती थी। उसकी आँखें कुछ कहती हुई प्रतीत होती थीं जिनको लेखक नहीं समझ सका। बस यूँ कहिए कि वह विद्यमान था–एक ऐसे व्यक्ति की भाति जिसमें एक मृत शरीर दिखाई दे रहा था। उसने अनुभव किया कि विकलांग होने में भी अच्छा कुछ नहीं है। लेखक ने उसकी अपनी स्थिति से तुलना की। उसने ईश्वर का धन्यवाद किया कि उसके शरीर में कार्य करने की संभावनाएँ अधिक थीं परंतु यह उसने अनुभव कर ही लिया था कि वह भी कभी नहीं चल सकेगा। स्टीफन तो लेखक के लिए प्रोत्साहन था। लोगों द्वारा यह देखकर स्टीफन के लिए उस पर मुस्कुराना अनावश्यक था कि वह जीवित है। लेखक द्वारा विकलांगों के लिए कुछ संदेश पूछने पर स्टीफन ने कहा, “जो तुम्हें ईश्वर द्वारा ठीक अंग उपलब्ध हैं तुम केवल उसी पर ध्यान केंद्रित रखो।” उसने कहा कि उसने एक बार अपनी गिटार बहुत वर्षों तक आनन्द से बजाने के पश्चात् एक रात को अचानक उसके तार खोल दिए थे। लेखक ने अब अपने आप को दोषी माना कि वह स्टीफन को कम्प्यूटर ध्वनि द्वारा बोलने पर विवश कर रहा है। वह स्वयं भी तो व्हील-चेयर पर है। स्टीफन ने उसे उद्यान दिखाया और फिर वह चला गया।
उसने स्टीफन को न तो चूमा न ही उसे देखकर पीड़ा से चीखा। बस उसके कन्धों को कोमलता से घुमाया और वहाँ से चला गया।