How to Grow Old
两种译文对照
Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this
feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel
bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an
old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him
to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject(gloomy) and ignoble. The best way to overcome
it——so at least it seems to me——is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,
until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the
universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river——small at first, narrowly
contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the
to learn,to grow英语作文
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篇1
To Learn, To Grow
Hey guys, do you know what it means to learn and grow?
Learning is like planting seeds in a garden and growing is like
watching those seeds sprout into beautiful flowers! It’s super
important for us to keep learning new things so we can grow
into awesome and smart individuals.
One way we can learn is by going to school and listening to
our teachers. They teach us all sorts of cool stuff like math,
science, and even how to read and write. We also have books
and the internet to help us learn more about the world around us.
The more we learn, the more we grow!
But learning isn’t just about school stuff. We can also learn
from our friends, family, and even from things we see and
experience every day. Maybe we learn a new game to play with
How to Grow Old
By Bertrand Russell
1 In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of
life, is a much more important subject. My first advice would be to choose your ancestors
carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards
my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth
at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. Of
remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a
disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off。
2 A great grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two,
and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. My maternal grandmother, after
How to grow old
Getting older is one of those things that nobody welcomes but no one can avoid.
There is no alternative to getting older. Therefore, we have to find a way to welcome
our advancing years with a positive frame of mind. As a saying goes “People are only
as old as they feel.” So “how we grow old” is far more important than “how old we
grow”. Growing old is great. But what can we do to make it healthy, graceful and
unregretful when we grew old.
Firstly, exercising from the neck up. Keeping the brain active and fit is
imperative to the health of older adults. Not only does it stave off memory-loss
illnesses but it also fosters executive function. Try word games and recall exercises.
For example, find 5 red objects during a walk in the neighborhood and recall them
when back home. Secondly, working at being old. There is a degree of detachment
